We’re sure you’ve heard by now that Google has decided to close its RSS feed aggregator service called Google Reader. We’ve got to keep in mind to get our listing of countless excellent hacking blog feeds off of there before it’s gone. however just preserving the listing is rather easy. [Paul Kerchen] has a bit different problem. He’s got numerous articles starred as well as he wishes to protect a method to discover those pages again. His solution was to compose his own Python script to migrate starred Google visitor articles over to Evernote.

We’re not right here to promote the Evernote service. however just so we’re on the exact same page, it’s an archiving system that lets you save things like webpages as well as text documents for gain access to on a wide variety of different platforms. So all that truly needs to occur is for [Paul] to get the listing of links from his starred articles folder formatted for import on Evernote. It starts by utilizing Google Takeout to download an archive of his account data. Within this dump is a JSON formatted data called ‘starred.json’. His script parses the data as well as imports each article into Evernote. There’s even rate limiting to handle the everyday import maximum of free accounts.