How to download your Google data with Google TakeoutEverything starts with one export requestEverything starts at Google Takeout, the export tool buried in your account settings. It lists every product tied to your account — your massive Search history, YouTube, Maps Timeline, Gmail, Photos, Drive, Chrome, and dozens more — each with a checkbox. How to turn your Google Takeout files into a queryable databaseFrom scattered JSON files to SQL-ready tablesBryan M. Wolfe / MakeUseOfGoogle Takeout doesn't hand you a ready-to-query database. That process looks like this:Upload the relevant JSON files (Search History, Location History, YouTube watch history) straight into the chat. Right after looking through my database, I went into my Google Account settings and:Set Location History (Timeline) to auto-delete after three months.