![]() There are pros and cons to both approaches, but in our view, the browser-based one wins out mainly because, well, RSS is mostly about web site content so you’ll be working with a browser anyway in the reader. The main consideration here will be if you want to use a standalone program or rely on a browser-based one for reading feeds. In most cases this is a painless process and you’re ready after a few moments to start foraging your feeds. Your OPML file can now be imported into a different feed reader. Yes, RSS is unfortunately yet another IT area riddled with an alphabet soup of acronyms. This is known as an Outline Processor Markup Language or OPML file and is in eXtended Markup Language (XML) format. The ZIP format compressed archive contains metadata such as your Google Reader followers and who you follow, the likes, notes and shares and starred posts as well. This is compressed down, but building the archive is slow, taking roughly five hours to complete despite Google’s allegedly limitless amount of cloud computing power. Google says that until September this year, you can snag it from the Takeout page,ĭepending on the amount of subscriptions, it can be a fair amount of data: for this writer, 238 megabytes in eight files, covering just under 700 feeds. First, there’s still time to get your data out of Google Reader.
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