GoogleGroup Exporter - Unlock your mailing list
Project description
GoogleGroup Exporter is an extensible tool for retrieving and analysing your mailing list content.
Features
Dump all your messages into a mbox file so you can explore the content using email clients.
Export all your topics with title, author, date and url to a csv file so you can easily explore it on a spreadsheet.
Support extraction of private groups using your browser’s cookies.
Download all content in parallel.
Transparently cache all requests so you can inexpensively retry or process the content in different ways.
Offers an easy extension API so you write your own scripts.
Installation and Usage
Install Python 3.5 or greater and then simply:
pip install googlegroupexporter
Then execute the program:
ggexport my-public-group
By default, ggexport will generate a my-public-group.mbox file with all the messages. Then you can open it with you preferred email client.
Exporting a Private Group
To export a private group you need to inform your cookie header string to ggexport.
To retrieve the cookie header on Google Chrome:
Login into you Google Account;
Visit your GoogleGroup page, for example:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/my-private-group
Then inspect the page with Chrome’s Developer Tool;
Go to Network;
Select a request to the domain groups.google.com;
Select Headers;
Search for Request Headers;
Look for the Cookie key;
Copy the cookie header value string;
Then run:
ggexport my-private-group --cookies "COOKIE-HEADER-STRING-COPIED-FROM-MY-BROWSER"
Listing your group topics
To create a csv listing all your group’s topics along with their urls, authors, dates and number of messages, run:
ggexport my-public-group --mode csv
How to contribute
Fork this repository, checkout your fork, then:
python -m venv .gge source .gge/bin/activate python setup.py develop
Change what you want, then run the tests:
python setup.py test
To run your developed code you can use the command ggexport or run the module python -m googlegroupexporter.
When everything works, submit a pull request.
License
MIT License
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