The Data Liberation Front
The Data Liberation Front is an engineering team at Google whose singular goal is to make it easier for users to move their data in and out of Google products. We do this because we believe that you should be able to export any data that you create in (or import into) a product. We help and consult other engineering teams within Google on how to "liberate" their products. This is our mission statement:
People usually don't look to see if they can get their data out of a product until they decide one day that they want to leave. For this reason, we always encourage people to ask these three questions before starting to use a product that will store their data:
1. Can I get my data out in an open, interoperable, portable format?
2. How much is it going to cost to get my data out?
3. How much of my time is it going to take to get my data out?
The ideal answers to these questions are:
1. Yes.
2. Nothing more than I'm already paying.
3. As little as possible.
There shouldn't be an additional charge to export your data. Beyond that, if it takes you many hours to get your data out, it's almost as bad as not being able to get your data out at all.
We don't think that our products are perfect yet, but we're continuing to work at making it easier to get your data in and out of them. Visit our Google Moderator page to vote on and add suggestions on what you'd like to see liberated and why.
Lastly, you can also keep track of what we're doing by subscribing to the Data Liberation Front Blog or by following us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/dataliberation.
We don't think that our products are perfect yet, but we're continuing to work at making it easier to get your data in and out of them. Visit our Google Moderator page to vote on and add suggestions on what you'd like to see liberated and why.
Lastly, you can also keep track of what we're doing by subscribing to the Data Liberation Front Blog or by following us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/dataliberation.
The Google Data APIs (Google Data) provide a simple protocol for reading and writing data on the web. Though it is possible to use these services with a simple HTTP client, this library provides helpful tools to streamline your code and keep up with server-side changes.
Each of the following Google services provides a Google Data API:
The Google Data Python Client Library provides a library and source code that make it easy to access data through Google Data APIs.
Once you've downloaded the library, read the Getting Started Guide for instructions on installing and running some examples.
To browse the Google Data Python client library source code, visit the Source tab.
If you encounter a problem or want a new feature to be included in the Google Data Python Client Library, please submit an issue.
If you are interested in contributing to the library, please read the Contributor Guide and join the contributor group.
- The Google Data API Team
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