[HN Gopher] Command-Line Utility to Backup Google Mail, Calendar...
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       Command-Line Utility to Backup Google Mail, Calendar and Contacts
       to Files
        
       Author : weejewel
       Score  : 38 points
       Date   : 2024-08-10 11:13 UTC (11 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (github.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | xnx wrote:
       | What benefit does this have vs Google Takeout?
        
         | racked wrote:
         | Scriptable, presumably incremental.
        
         | AyyEye wrote:
         | My Google takeout doesn't work because it requires a 2FA from
         | Google authenticator which I no longer have.
        
           | judge2020 wrote:
           | You could attempt to get that 2fa removed by trying to sign
           | in from a new device and following the steps to recover your
           | account.
        
             | ramon156 wrote:
             | Good luck recovering when you're nowhere logged in
        
             | AyyEye wrote:
             | The issue isn't 2fa it's Google authenticator. When I log
             | in from a new device lets me log in using my phone as 2fa
             | but that is not an option for takeout -- only
             | authenticator. I can find no way to remove it.
        
               | ranger_danger wrote:
               | Google authenticator is a type of 2FA. They are saying
               | that if you can figure out a way to remove 2FA from your
               | account, then you can re-add it with the current
               | authenticator app you have, which will allow you to use
               | Takeout.
        
           | hypeatei wrote:
           | So when your cookie expires you're done for?
        
             | AyyEye wrote:
             | I can _log in_ using phone as 2fa just fine. But takeout
             | only accepts Authenticator.
        
       | ranger_danger wrote:
       | Looks handy, although it only grabbed like the first 2 years of
       | gmail for me, out of 20. Re-running the docker image did not
       | help.
        
       | philipwhiuk wrote:
       | Does the .eml file preserve Gmail labels? Does it handle the
       | 'labels apply to messages not threads' problem?
        
       | adrinavarro wrote:
       | got-your-back uses Gmail's API instead of IMAP with an insecure
       | app password, which is a discouraged way of accessing Gmail and
       | will eventually be phased out in favor of OAuth access tokens
       | over IMAP (in fact, I thought it already had been).
       | 
       | As for other services beyond Gmail, there's not a great ecosystem
       | for exporting.
       | 
       | For one-off exports, Google Takeout is decent enough, although
       | there's a lacking ecosystem to import the big .mbox files back to
       | an email provider.
        
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