Open Google Takeout files in your browser
The ZIP or TGZ Google makes of your account’s data. Open it right here as a folder of Google’s products, and each file in it in its own viewer. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your Takeout opens like a folder of Google’s products, and each file in it opens in its own viewer: history, notes, photos, mail, calendars and contacts.
- Listed like a folder • Unpacks only what you pick
- YouTube and Chrome • Your history on a card
- Google Photos • Each picture with its date and place
- Keep • Each note on its page
About Google Takeout
Google’s Data Liberation Front launched Takeout in 2011. At takeout.google.com you pick the products, the file type and the size, and Google sends links to one or more archives named takeout-<date>-001.zip, each with a Takeout folder and a folder a product inside.
Each product writes its own formats: YouTube’s watch and search history in My Activity’s JSON or HTML with subscriptions.csv and comments.csv, Chrome’s History.json and Bookmarks.html, Keep a JSON and an HTML a note, Google Photos each picture with a JSON beside it that keeps its date, place, people and description, Gmail an MBOX, Calendar ICS files, Contacts vCards and Maps’ Timeline JSON.
Filepeek opens the archive as a folder and each file in its own viewer. YouTube’s and Chrome’s history and bookmarks show on a card, Keep’s notes on pages with their pictures, and each Google Photos picture shows its JSON’s date, place, people and description in Show details. Gmail, Calendar, Contacts and Timeline open as they do on their own pages.
Google Takeout archive
.zip • .tgz
Format
- MIME type
- application/zip
- Made by
- Released
- 2011
Inside the file
- Kept as
- ZIP or TGZ archives of 2 to 50 GB
- Layout
- Takeout, then a folder a product
- Photos
- Each picture with its .json
- History
- YouTube and Chrome in JSON or HTML
Opens in every browser
Filepeek opens Takeout archives in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari, unpacking only the files you open. On their own, browsers download them.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Apps that open Google Takeout
- WindowsFile Explorer unzips it, then each product’s files open in their own apps
- MacArchive Utility unzips it, then each product’s files open in their own apps
- iPhone and iPadFiles unzips it
- AndroidFiles by Google unzips it
Questions
How do I make a Google Takeout?
Go to takeout.google.com, pick the products, then Next step, the delivery, the file type (ZIP or TGZ) and the size. Google emails links to the archives once they’re ready, within hours or days.
Why do my Google Photos have the wrong date?
Takeout keeps the date a photo was taken in the JSON beside it, not always in the picture itself. Open the picture here and Show details reads the JSON beside it: when it was taken and uploaded, where, who’s in it and its description.
Why does a photo’s JSON have a shorter name?
Takeout cuts each name to 51 characters, so IMG_20261004_143012_HDR.jpg.supplemental-metadata.json comes as IMG_20261004_143012_HDR.jpg.supplemental-metad.json. Filepeek still finds it by the start of the name, and a copy’s (1) at its end.
My Takeout came as several archives. Which one do I open?
Each holds part of it, cut by size. Open each on its own: a product can be split across them, and Google Photos’ albums often are.
Can I open my Gmail from Takeout?
Yes. Mail/All mail Including Spam and Trash.mbox opens as your mailbox, with each email and its attachments.