Data Transfer Project

vasilis · December 3, 2019, 12:26pm

The Data Transfer Project was launched in 2018 to create an open-source, service-to-service data portability platform so that all individuals across the web could easily move their data between online service providers whenever they want.

Source: https://datatransferproject.dev/

What’s interesting is that there is already support for Mastodon, so for instance one one can get their data from Facebook and transfer it to Mastodon:

github.com

google/data-transfer-project/blob/master/extensions/data-transfer/portability-data-transfer-mastodon/Readme.md

# Mastodon
This folder contains the extension implementation for the
[Mastodon](https://joinmastodon.org/) API.


## Data Supported

 - Social Activity streams (notes < 500 chars only)

## Current State

 - Proof of concept
 
 Currently the importer and exporter work, and can be exercised via the ManualTest.java
 file.  Just enter your access token from your Mastodon instance UI.
 
 TODO: implement the auth flow for Mastodon, allowing a user to select an instance
 and then automatically registering an app and going through the OAuth flow.
 
 **Known Issues:**

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