export google history

gistfile1.rb

require 'mechanize'
require 'logger'
require 'date'

## Call:
## $ ruby export.rb <gmail> <password>

caFile = File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'cacert.pem')
if not File.exists? caFile
  require 'net/http'

  puts 'Getting cacert.pem'

  Net::HTTP.start('curl.haxx.se') do |http|
    resp = http.get '/ca/cacert.pem'
    open(caFile, 'w') { |f| f.write resp.body }
  end
end

agent = Mechanize.new do |a|
  a.user_agent_alias = 'Linux Mozilla'
  a.log = Logger.new(STDOUT)
  a.log.level = Logger::WARN
  a.ca_file = caFile
end

puts 'Logging in...'

login_page = agent.get('http://www.google.com/history')
success_page = login_page.form_with(:action => 'https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLoginAuth') do |f|
  f.Email = ARGV[0]
  f.Passwd = ARGV[1]
end.click_button

puts 'Getting history...'

feedURL = 'http://www.google.com/history/lookup?output=rss&num=9999'
prevDate = nil
d = nil

loop do
  rss = agent.get(feedURL)
  rssXml = Nokogiri::XML(rss.body)
  pubDates = rssXml.xpath('//pubDate')

  d = DateTime.parse(pubDates.last.inner_text)

  # end if the last date
  break if prevDate == d
  prevDate = d

  firstDate = DateTime.parse(pubDates.first.inner_text)
  fileName = "#{firstDate.year}#{'%02d' % firstDate.month}#{'%02d' % firstDate.day}.xml"
  rss.save(fileName)

  puts 'Saved ' + fileName

  feedURL = "http://www.google.com/history/lookup?output=rss&num=9999&month=#{d.month}&day=#{d.day}&yr=#{d.year}"
end

puts 'Last item: ' + d.to_s
puts 'Done'