Extfiltrating Google Location History from Timeline

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Terence Eden picture Terence Eden · Sep 1, 2015 · Viewed 8.2k times · Source

Note, due to changes to Google's "Timeline" this previous answer no longer works.

Google offers a "Timeline" service which allows users to access their phone's location history.

I want to extract my phone's current location.

If I select "today" in Timeline, I can "Export this day to KML"

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This contains the data I need, but I don't know how to get these data programatically. I don't want to have to log in to the website every time I need this information.

The URL it provides is -

https://doc-0uom0-1q5a8-s-googleusercontent.commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gs/[hash1]/[hash2]/1441116000000/takeout-eu/[user id]/[stupidly long hash]&nonce=[hash3]&user=[user id]&hash=[hash4]

Apart from the Unix timestamp (1441116000000) I don't know how to calculate the parameters for that URL.

The Google Maps API documentation doesn't list anything.

I'd like to be able to wget a URL to collect my data. Does anyone know how this can be done?

Answer

Varanasi Benares picture Varanasi Benares · Sep 2, 2015

This will give the latest points, I believe:

 https://www.google.com/maps/timeline/kml

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