Extract Data from Google Takeout

Provides functions to analyze data exported from 'Google Takeout'. The package supports unzipping archives and extracting user review data from Google Business Profile exports into tidy data frames for further analysis.

gtakeout

The goal of gtakeout is to extract data from Google Takeout.

Installation

You can install the development version of gtakeout like so:

install.packages("gtakeout", repos = "https://jrosell.r-universe.dev")

Examples

Google Business Profiles

This is a basic example which shows you how to extract the reviews form a Takedown zip file.

library(gtakeout)

# devtools::load_all()

takeout_zipfile <- fs::dir_ls(here::here("data", "input"), glob = "*.zip") |>
  head(1)

output_path <- fs::dir_create(here::here("data", "output"))

gtakeout_reviews(takeout_zipfile, exdir = output_path)
#> # A tibble: 1 × 9
#>   account         location   reviewer star_raw comment created updated review_id
#>   <chr>           <chr>      <chr>    <chr>    <chr>   <chr>   <chr>   <chr>    
#> 1 account-example location-… Example… FIVE     exampl… 2025-0… 2025-0… accounts…
#> # ℹ 1 more variable: listing_name <chr>