Google Timeline Extractor

Extract your location timeline from Google.

Steps

Before you start, don't forget to install dependencies with npm install

1. Go to https://www.google.com/maps/timeline?pb
2. Make sure you're logged in and can see your timeline graph
3. Open your browser developer tools and open the network monitoring
4. Select a day from the graph to request some data.
5. Inspect the network request, you'll be grabbing 3 pieces of data:
   • SID in the Cookie header
   • HSID in the Cookie header
   • SSID in the Cookie header
6. Create a .env file with those three values, under the variable names SID, HSID and SSID respectively
7. Time to get some data - use npm start to kick off the script; this will get the data for the previous day.
   • If you want more historical data, you can provide an initial date with npm start -- <date>
     • eg. npm start -- 2018-01-01
8. If it's all working, you'll get an output directory created with the raw responses and the viewing activity sliced by day.