User Guide

To help you get a hold of your personal data, we developed a tool called Excavator. Excavator extracts, stores and visualizes your personal data exports.

In this part, you will learn how to safely collect and analyze your own data locally.

Prerequisite

Currently, we support part of Google Takeout and Facebook data. You need to prepare the applicable data from Google Takeout or Facebook. Supported files are for example.

• Google Takout

  • MyActivity.json
  • search-history.json
  • watch-history.json
  • Location History.json
  • Saved Place.json
  • Semantic Location History.json
  • All the .json files from Google Fit "All Sessions".

• Facebook

  • device_location.json
  • primary_location.json
  • primary_public_location.json
  • last_location.json
  • location_history.json

See the full and up-to-date list on each takeout page.