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seansfkelley / nas-download-manager

An open source browser extension for adding/managing download tasks to your Synology DiskStation.
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google takeout #157

Closed pokemonbattledroid closed 3 years ago

pokemonbattledroid commented 3 years ago

Is there any method to getting google takeout links to work? I try copying the links from download manager in chrome, and that doesn't seem to work either...

seansfkelley commented 3 years ago

Looks like it takes a few days for Google to collect all the data for Takeout, so I can take a look at this in a few days' time. Wild guess: the download requires you to be logged in, but Download Station doesn't have it.

seansfkelley commented 3 years ago

I finally found some time to get around to this, and unfortunately, it out's of my control. It appears that the way the Takeout site works is by running some javascript to programmatically trigger a download, meaning that there's no method for the extension to figure out what URL it should send to the NAS.

As a workaround, you could initiate a download in your browser, cancel it, then open the downloads list and pull the URL from there. This also may not work if Google requires login cookies to authenticate the request. Also note that Takeout limits the number of times any given export can be downloaded to just a few, which is obnoxious.