Going... going...

[ganimede]

As the half dozen of you who use Google Reader are no doubt aware, Google announced recently that it would be closed down on July the 1st, sending a veritable shockwave of indignation across the internets. Apparently not enough people were using it which is probably Google-speak for 'we weren't getting any money from it'. Certainly the amount of

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[ganimede]

I don't know where they would have put ads, there wasn't any real room for them.

It might be easier doing them that way but it would certainly be very very lengthy. I'm not sure it does export All The Things. The .json files are labelled followers, following, liked, notes, shared, shared-by-followers and starred. I don't see anything there that would include the tagged and saved items I have. Which is the one thing I really do want.

I presume Delicious takes .json files. The import page just says to 'use the browser export bookmarks option' and if Firefox bookmarks are a .json file, maybe all browsers are. You can give each imported file a tag so I'll probably tag mine reader-liked, reader-shared, etc. At least that way I'll have them all in Delicious in case I don't have time to go through them before July.

ETA Okay I just tried to upload one of the .json files to Delicious and it said, 'Please note we only support files from firefox, internet explorer, chrome, and safari in the .html format.' So what can I do with a .json file????

[ftmichael]

Ah, yeah. I didn't tag anything, I don't think, and I may not have even been aware that there's a difference between starring and saving things. I just starred everything I wanted to save. :-/

I just tried to upload my shared GReader items to Delicious and got a server timeout error ('the connection to the server was reset while the page was loading') immediately. No clue what that's about. But grrrrrrr. I'll start looking for a way to easily convert .json to .html.

[ganimede]

I tagged stuff rather than starring it. Looks like I might have to go through all my tags and star everything instead. That's annoying.

I just had a quick look and all you can do with .json files is import them as bookmarks and then export it as .html. Which will then obviously add them to all your other booksmarks and export all those bookmarks to Delicious. So then you'd have to go through all the new stuff in Delicious to remove the bookmarks that weren't supposed to be there! I have Chrome on CAL which doesn't have any bookmarks saved at all so I could always import the .json files there.

[ftmichael]

*nods* That's all I've found so far too. I just tried 'restoring' one of the json files to Firefox but it doesn't seem to have worked. It's still showing my regular bookmarks, which it should have replaced with the contents of the json file. :-/ I'd like to at least get them onto Delicious and then I can go through them from there.

[ganimede]

Chrome will only import bookmarks from other browsers that are installed. Which is so much wtf.

[ftmichael]

*bangs head on desk*

[ganimede]

Okay.

1 - Only Firefox uses .json files so they can't be imported into another browser.

2 - You can open .json files with Notepad. I presume gedit should open it too in that case. That opens pretty much anything.

3 - There are online .json viewers where you can paste in the code from the file and it will then turn it into tables and stuff as per here: http://techslides.com/top-5-free-json-viewers/

4 - Profit????

[ftmichael]

hehe I very much like number 4 (which I initially mistyped as $)!

gedit does open .json files, or you can open it in a Firefox tab and view it as plain text that way too. But the viewers just help you view the code more cleanly; it doesn't convert it to HTML. Even the one that turns it into HTML tables is just a way of displaying it. It's not the right format to then import to Delicious et al, I don't think. :(

I need to go do other things but I will keep working on this later on. Peez let me know if you make any progress with it. :-/

[ganimede]

You know what? I'm an idiot. I just opened a .json file in Notepad and saved it as .html. Ignore, doesn't work. There is apparently no way to convert from .json to html. The only thing to do is import it into Firefox which is so stupid.

ETA: I did a Google search for 'what to do with google reader json file' which seems to be a popular query. I found interesting link but I know nothing about running Python scripts.

EETA: Apparently Pinboard will import .json files according to this. Whatever that is.

[ftmichael]

Grrrrr. That is so stupid. Why do .json files even exist???