Export starred items, then auto-delete?

June 12, 2009 1:42 AM

How can I export (and mass-delete) all of my starred items in Google Reader?

I've googled this before, but all of the suggestions that I've seen seem to no longer work (since they're always tinkering with Google Reader.) What I want to do is to export all of my starred items (either as individual items--preferred--or as one large HTML file) and then delete them all, so that when I actually star something from now on, it won't be buried under a pile of "once useful" stuff. Is this even possible?

posted by polexxia to computers & internet (2 comments total)

First question - what's your facility with programming? If you're not really apt at it, then it won't easiest, but here are a couple methods:

• How To Export Starred Items From Google Reader Into HTML (using Ruby)
• Export Google Reader Starred items into xml

As far as bulk unstarring, it looks like you'll have to do it manually.
posted by anarchivist at 6:07 AM on June 12

I can't program at all; I tried the bottom directions--which don't work with the current version of GR
posted by polexxia at 11:19 AM on June 12