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0 pointssurrealize13y ago0 comments

I use Reader's "star" functionality to keep track of stuff that I want to refer back to later. And, AFAICT, you can't easily export your star history. You can export your subscriptions, but not the stars.

The only approach that I've seen to exporting stars is to use the fact that Reader will create a feed of just your starred items. Then you can view that feed in some other reader and manually mark each one there (ugh).

Edit: Oh, and the read/not read history is, AFAICT, also not exportable. And I do use this as well.

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skymt13y ago

Stars are, in fact, exportable. The "Google Takeout" zip archive for Reader includes a file called starred.json, containing a list of your starred items in a JSON format that, as far as I know, nothing else reads. If whatever reader you switch to can import marked items, you can probably work up a script to convert Google's format to whatever the new reader uses.

surrealizeOP13y ago

Thanks! The last time I checked was when they turned my google-account-with-an-apps-domain-email-address into an actual google apps account, and I had to move my Reader data.

1ManBandAccts13y ago

Feedly will sync over all your starred items and put them into Saved.

zanny13y ago

Oh god. I have around 800 starred items dating back to 2008 in greader. Fuck me.

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