Google Takeout viewer
Free Google Takeout viewer, no account: your search, YouTube and Chrome history, Location History, contacts and calendar become searchable tables — nothing is uploaded.
…or drop your Takeout export here — the ZIP files as you downloaded them, the unzipped Takeout folder, or the .json, .csv, .vcf and .ics files inside.
Nothing is uploaded: the file is read by JavaScript in this browser tab and stays on your device. Photos, videos, Drive documents, HTML pages and the Gmail mailbox are skipped; the JSON, CSV, TXT, vCard and iCalendar files are read. Several ZIP files can be dropped together. Drop them anywhere on the page.
How to view your Google Takeout data
- On takeout.google.com, uncheck the products you don’t want; where a product offers Multiple formats (notably My Activity and YouTube and YouTube Music), choose JSON instead of HTML (Google Account Help, How to download your Google data).
- Click Next step, choose Send download link via email and Export once, pick .zip and a size, then Create export.
- Wait for Google’s email — a large export can take hours or days — and download the ZIP file or files within 7 days.
- Drop the ZIP (or all of them at once) here or click Choose file; if it is unzipped, use Choose folder or drop the Takeout folder.
- Each list gets a tab: filter it with Find in this list, click a column header to sort, then Download CSV or Copy for Excel / Sheets.
What is in a Google Takeout export
Takeout gives you a folder named Takeout with one folder per product, each in the format Google chose for it — “for example, we export contacts as vCard”. This page reads the JSON, CSV, TXT, vCard (.vcf) and iCalendar (.ics) files and shows every list in them as its own tab, named after the file or, for generic file names (MyActivity.json, Records.json), after its folder. In exports we have tested this covers My Activity (Search, YouTube, Maps, Chrome, Ads, Assistant and every other product, one tab each), YouTube watch history, search history, subscriptions, playlists and comments, Chrome browsing history, bookmarks data and extensions, Location History (Timeline) records, Google Photos metadata, Keep notes, Contacts, Calendar events, Play library and purchases, Fit daily metrics, Maps saved places and reviews, Tasks, Home and Nest activity, and the profile and account fields.
Google Photos and Keep write one small JSON file per photo or note; the viewer folds those into one list per folder, with a File column, instead of one tab per file. Not read: the photos, videos and Drive documents themselves, HTML pages, and the Gmail mailbox (.mbox).
Is my Google data uploaded?
No: the file is read by JavaScript in your browser, and a ZIP is unpacked there too, with the browser’s own decompression; only the data files inside are read — photos, videos and documents stay untouched. The site’s host, GitHub Pages, logs the IP address of every visitor for security, like any web server — details on the privacy page. Because the file stays with you, the viewer works on a phone as well as on a laptop, and keeps working offline once the page has loaded.
Summary tab: counts, dates and busiest hours
The Summary tab draws two small charts for the largest dated list (often your Search activity, YouTube history or Location History) — records by hour of the day and by weekday, in UTC as the times in the file — and below them lists every section with its number of records and its first and last date.
JSON, not HTML: the formats to choose in Takeout
Takeout writes My Activity and YouTube history as HTML unless you pick JSON under Multiple formats, and this viewer does not read HTML pages. Chrome, Location History, Keep, Play, Tasks and Photos metadata are JSON already, and YouTube subscriptions and playlists, Fit and Google Pay are CSV, read as well. Choose .zip rather than .tgz as the file type — Google notes that “Tgz files may require additional software, such as 7-Zip, to open on Windows”, and this page reads ZIP only.
Facts checked on 25 September 2026 against Google Account Help, “How to download your Google data”: support.google.com/accounts/answer/3024190, and Google Maps Help, “Manage your Google Maps Timeline” (the Export Timeline data steps): support.google.com/maps/answer/6258979. The layout of the export is described from files we have tested; Google changes folder and field names over time, which is why the viewer reads whatever lists it finds. DataExportViewer is an independent tool, not affiliated with Google.
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FAQ
How do I download my Google data with Takeout?
Go to takeout.google.com while signed in, uncheck the products you don’t want, and for My Activity and YouTube and YouTube Music open Multiple formats and choose JSON. Click Next step, choose Send download link via email, pick .zip and a maximum size (a larger export is split into several archives), then Create export. Google emails you when it is ready — a big export can take hours or days — and the download link is valid for 7 days.
My Search history and YouTube history came as HTML — how do I get JSON?
Request the export again: on the product list, open Multiple formats under My Activity and under YouTube and YouTube Music, switch the history format to JSON, and create the export (HTML is Takeout’s default for these). The JSON files (MyActivity.json for each product, watch-history.json and search-history.json for YouTube) are what this page turns into searchable tables; the HTML pages can only be read in a browser and are not read here.
Is my Google data uploaded to a server?
No: the ZIP or the files inside are read by JavaScript in your browser; no server receives them, nothing is stored, and the page sets no cookies. To check, open your browser’s developer tools on the Network tab while you drop the file: no request carries it. The host, GitHub Pages, logs visitor IP addresses for security — see the privacy page.
How do I see my YouTube watch history and subscriptions?
In the YouTube and YouTube Music folder: history/watch-history.json becomes the Watch history tab with the video title, link, channel and time of every view; history/search-history.json the searches; subscriptions/subscriptions.csv the channels you subscribe to, with their links; playlists and comments come as CSV files too. Type a channel or a word in Find in this list, sort by time, and download the result as CSV. If the history folder holds .html files instead of .json, request the export again with JSON selected.
Can I open my Location History or Timeline?
Yes: an older Takeout has a Location History (Timeline) folder with Records.json, a list of every recorded position with its time, accuracy and source, shown as one tab; coordinates are written as latitudeE7 and longitudeE7, so divide by 10,000,000 to get degrees. The file can be hundreds of megabytes for years of history, so drop it on its own if the whole export makes the browser run out of memory. A Timeline.json exported from the phone opens here too, as “Timeline · Semantic segments” (visits and trips, with start and end times) and “Timeline · Raw signals” (positions).
Why is there no Location History in my Takeout?
Google now keeps Timeline data on the phone, so a Takeout made today may contain no Location History folder at all. Export it from the phone instead — on Android, Settings → Location → Location services → Timeline → Export Timeline data; on iPhone, in the Google Maps app, your profile picture → Settings → Location & Privacy → Export Timeline data, then Save to Files (Google Maps Help, “Manage your Google Maps Timeline”). Drop the resulting Timeline.json on this page for the visits, trips and raw positions as tables.
What does the viewer show for Google Photos?
Not the pictures — the export contains them as image and video files, which are skipped. Next to each one Takeout writes a small JSON file with the photo’s title, description, the time it was taken, view count and location; the viewer folds those into one list per album or year folder, with a File column, so you can sort by date taken, search descriptions, or export the list as CSV. The album’s own metadata.json is shown as a separate Field / Value block.
Are Contacts and Calendar read?
Yes: Contacts come as a vCard file (All Contacts.vcf) — one row per contact, with the name, each email and phone with its type, addresses, birthday and notes as columns. Calendar comes as one iCalendar file (.ics) per calendar — one row per event, with start, end, summary, description and location; reminders inside an event are not shown as rows. Both can be filtered, sorted and downloaded as CSV, which is also a quick way to get contacts into a spreadsheet.
What about Gmail?
Takeout exports Gmail as an .mbox file — a mailbox archive, not a list of records — and this page does not read it. To browse it, import the file into a mail program such as Thunderbird, which reads .mbox directly. Everything else in the export that is JSON, CSV, TXT, vCard or iCalendar opens here.
The export came as several ZIP files, or as .tgz — what do I do?
Several ZIPs: select them all in Choose file or drop them on the page at once; the viewer reads every archive and shows one set of tabs. A .tgz archive is not read in the browser: unzip it with 7-Zip or the system archiver and drop the Takeout folder, or request the export again with .zip as the file type. If one ZIP is larger than 4 GB the ZIP64 format is not supported either — unzip it and drop the folder.
What time zone are the dates in?
Takeout writes times in UTC — as ISO dates ending in “Z” in My Activity and Location History, and as Unix timestamps (seconds, milliseconds or microseconds) in Chrome, Keep and Photos. The viewer converts the timestamps and shows every time in UTC, so they can differ from your local time by your time zone offset. The Summary charts by hour and weekday use the same UTC times.