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Surfer: Open-Source Personal Data Warehouse

147 points| slalani304 | 1 year ago |github.com

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xnx|1 year ago

Love this idea. It's crazy that every company knows more about my online activity than I know about it myself.

Definitely worried that running the extractors would get my accounts banned for violating policies against automated requests.

j45|1 year ago

No need to worry - it's your data.

Large organizations do a takeout/checkout process that sends you a notification when the data is ready for manual exports.

slalani304|1 year ago

This hasn't happened for any of my accounts and I've been working on this for the last few months.

mdrzn|1 year ago

Looks fantastic but I think to really be useful it would require more data: import my Chrome navigation data (since it only stores the last 90 days), import my Facebook takeout, import my whole Google takeout (not just Gmail, what about Youtube?), if it could even organize my whole Whatsapp exported history that'd be golden.

slalani304|1 year ago

Agreed, working on adding all of these

snthpy|1 year ago

Love the idea!

I still need to look at the implementation later but just wondering if there is any overlap / possibility for leveraging atproto from Bluesky? Probably different use cases but it just made me think of PDSs.

slalani304|1 year ago

Have not heard of that, but is it similar to the Solid project / other personal data warehouse projects?

jdmg94|1 year ago

Great project, is there any plans to add linux support?

slalani304|1 year ago

I'm not on Linux but if others want to contribute / are very interested we can definitely make that happen!

bix6|1 year ago

Love it and the name!

Is this the best option out there right now? I’ve seen other projects from time to time but not sure what’s stuck.

slalani304|1 year ago

Haven't seen anything personally that's as intuitive / easy to use as this one, but I'm biased

secstate|1 year ago

Haha, I thought this looked like an awesome idea, then I looked through the supported services and realized I already don't use any of them anymore!