A way to just download the files locally?

[m1ndy]

Hi would there be a way for the extension to allow downloading all the takeout files locally?

Currently, Takeout downloads are a PITA requiring a bunch of clicks (even if 50GiB chunks are selected)

This would automate those steps.

Bonus points to allow some form of local-session-based ephemeral storage of the google account password too as Takeout re-prompts password after X minutes (1 hour?) of no activity. This is required if you want to download X files at a time based on your local bandwidth availability and serialize the downloads

[m1ndy]

I would set default download location to a mounted rclone crypt which would then allow downloading it live, and it getting uploaded encrypted to another cloud

[nelsonjchen]

The extension was built with exceptional laziness. It was not built upon amazing reverse engineering of the behavior of the pages, just the "final result" of a temporary and signed direct download link. That kind of fight is the kind of fight you would see projects such as https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp do and do continuously at great effort. I stopped when it was functional enough for me and my ~1TB+ takeout. I know the API I'm using is "stable-ish".

Last time this toolkit broke, it took me 4 months to get the will to fix it up again and that was really because my last backups were getting too stale.

That said, if someone else wants a bite, sure. I might not accept a PR simply due to the maintenance burden though. Willing to give a shoutout in the README, of course.

I do have an issue tracking R2 transloading. That one I'm also too lazy to implement until Cloudflare gets lifecycle rules.

nelsonjchen/gargantuan-takeout-rocket#7

[nelsonjchen]

It would take me more than a few weeks of effort to reverse engineer the pages and to maintain the reverse engineering. If someone else wants a crack, they can.

[nelsonjchen]

My dumb suggestion as a workaround is to simply use the middle click button. I think that's what I do to ward off the page's shittiness. I forgot if that works. Next takeout of mine, I'll be sure to let you know if you don't beat me to it..