@Jean-Baptiste_Pichan I have more information for you. Apparently, the Google Community Takeouts are missing comments which makes them useless. While I guess it’s worth doing takeouts just in case, I strongly recommend the Friends+Me Google+ Exporter on the basis that it has been proven to actually work. Also, I would strongly suggest doing it as soon as possible, because recently there was a change to Google+ that temporarily broke the exporter and had to be worked around, and we have no idea when Google will push another change that breaks it again.
Let’s skip it then if there are other volunteers, because I am dedicating my time for the Multibot and there shall be some programming after the hardware is tested.
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Shapeoko is imported. Can’t announce on the G+ group because I’m not a member, but it looks very inactive so maybe we just count on web searches to find the content.
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If I had understood, I probably would have offered code for importing the archive into the official forum, but now we’ll make the category a place where laser enthusiasts generally can also continue to talk about FabCreator, and I added a link to the official forum in the category sticky.
OpenRC is ported, and I have announced on G+.
Done‽
I have no more ports immediately planned. I have archives of several communities that require spam (or maybe non-spam!) identification in order to import, so a bit more content may still show up, but I don’t have any porting work that I’m currently working on.
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@mcdanlj you have achieved a solid touch base for the open developers. With such a good start we need to reach better aims. I see that G+ made a good deal bringing intelligent team here.
Love to see a pinpointed post with links of projects we want to make real.
For example I WILL make Multibot open free real.
I WANT to make a slow flying vehicle acceptable in Germany, etc.
We have plenty of young who watch us but sure most of them do not know what for is the stuff we are dealing here with (do we? )
@mcdanlj You have done good basement bringing intelligence to here from G+,
New generation needs further inspiration.
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@Phil_Duby Last night, I was bothered there were a few people whose posts to the DIY UAV group I really wanted to preserve, but adding enough to the blacklist to import the community was going to drive me crazy. So I quickly ran through the community, noting users who had posted really useful content, and found 15.
So I implemented a whitelist for the importer and imported them into the DIY UAVs category.
The way the whitelist works is it includes only posts authored by the whitelist, and all comments authored by anyone who isn’t on the blacklist.
So if it’s easier, just identify people who posted at least some meaningful content and give me a list in the same format as the blacklist, and then I can do import.
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I’d suggest the following communities:
- D.I.Y. & Home Improvement (https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/100609606380844426079),
- Arduino Tutorials (https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/104815959638799239380),
- Embedded Microcontroller Projects (https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/103202764212964948926),
- Living Off Grid (https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/112158916958848521799),
- Microcontroller Based Projects (https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/112571450836982165212),
- Reprap.org (https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/108419464619607320823),
- Survival, Bushcraft and Wild Camping
(https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/110530447763891110175)
Hi @ireneus! Embedded Microcontroller Projects and Microcontroller Based Projects both have a lot of spam, thus the conversation above with @Phil_Duby about blacklist/whitelist. It looks like everything with “Arduino” in the name also got choked with tons of spam
In any case, Google has been blocking the exporter and I only get go away you nasty robot (not the actual error message) when I try to use it, so I think I’m past when I can do more imports. 
@Phil_Duby — On Google+, @MidnightVisions suggested cutting off at 2017, and archiving only the “Completed Projects” category of Embedded Microcontroller Projects as a way to get value with less spam. What progress have you made on identifying spam?
(I’ll plan on evaluating this kind of selective import for Arduino Projects and Arduino Tutorials as well. No promises there, but it’s worth at least a look-see.)
I got side tracked building a tool to let me view the json content as ‘posts’ in a browser. To make it easy to tag spam / non-spam. Taking longer that is should, as I learn more about python, json, web server code.
Oh! If I’d known, I would have pointed you to the quick script I hacked together before for that, before discovering makerforums…
My code went a different path. I actually create a web server in python, and parse / load the json content on the fly. Allows things like dynamic adjustment of include / exclude filters. Not something to ever deploy on the Internet (security is not handled), but should be good for local viewing.
I’ll see what ideas I can borrow from that code for things not implemented yet.
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Fun project, and cool idea! If my script helps with any missing pieces, great!