Sunday, November 10, 2024

takeout.google.com

I have some photos-takeout-20230630T070258Z-001.zip ... presumably created when Google announced they would do cannot-remember-what to their albums service.

  • it has multiple folders for the same blog, with date tags.
  • it has 3030 files total. There are 30 pair of duplicates
  • it finds some duplicates between files, but always in the same folder, like 2007-02-04-Bilou_s Book/biokid-4-superjump.png and the same folder with biokid-4-superjump(1).png
  • all the files have the same date as the archive. Proper timestamps will have to be looked up into companion .json files
  • there's obviously a maximum filename esp. for screenshots (40 characters ?)
  • The date in the folder name seems to be album creation time. For this blog, I have 2007, 2011, 2021 and 2023
  • There isn't any file with timestamp earlier than 2007. So where are the pictures from 2006 ? like http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5640/3676/320/indigo-hints.png or http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5640/3676/320/blending-example.png ? Apparently in another castle.
  • The oldest entry for which images are available is http://sylvainhb.blogspot.com/2007/03/vous-courriez-jen-suis-fort-aise-eh.html http://sylvainhb.blogspot.com/2007/02/pour-faire-un-aarbreeeuu.html (unfortunately, that's missing the pictures-heavy http://sylvainhb.blogspot.com/2007/02/un-arbre-cachant-la-fort.html)
  • whole chunks (like everything 2014 Q4) is missing

Got a new takeout today, of Blogger data. This one is bigger. 800+ MB while the previous was about 200 MB.

  • timestamps are now only in milliseconds-since-epoch format
  • time span between oldest and latest timestamps is 6284 days... about 17.2 years
  • 5640 files for this blog (plus .json descriptors) and 2513 duplicates set... that means about every picture has a duplicate :-/
  • it seems to have some of the missing files mentioned earlier, like bladorstack
  • still no indigo-hints.png or blending-example.png, unfortunately T_T

I'll have to dig that more. I'll have to merge that with the "blogpress" tools and possibly make myself a "blogger taken out dashboard".

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