# Surfer-Org/Protocol

Open-source framework for exporting your personal data.

Repository: https://github.com/Surfer-Org/Protocol
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/surfer-org-protocol
Homepage: https://docs.surferprotocol.org/desktop/installation
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2024-12-25T00:21:31+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 13/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 53
- inputs: {"age_days": 754, "days_push": 617, "days_rel": 638, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1475, forks 72 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:49.822397+00:00)

## What it is
Surfer Protocol is an open-source framework for exporting personal data from platforms like Gmail, iMessages, Twitter, Notion, and ChatGPT. It consists of a desktop app that scrapes and exports user data locally, plus a Python SDK for building applications on top of that exported data.

## Use cases
- export my gmail messages to local files
- download my twitter bookmarks
- back up my chatgpt conversation history
- build an ai clone trained on my own messages
- reclaim my personal data from big tech platforms
- export imessage conversations
- leave a digital legacy of my online data

## When to choose
- you want to export personal data from supported platforms to local storage
- you want to build apps on top of your own data via the Python SDK
- you prefer a GUI-driven export process rather than manual API wrangling

## When to avoid
- you need a platform not yet supported by the exporters
- you need a fully supported, production-grade data pipeline with guarantees
- you want server-side or cloud-based export rather than local scraping

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: active
- function: web-scraping, etl, sdk, gui, data-science
- domain: privacy, developer-tools
- platform: cross-platform, python
- tags: data-portability, personal-data-export, data-ownership, desktop-app, python-sdk, self-hosted, data-engineering, automation, desktop, typescript

## Member repositories
- Surfer-Org/Protocol (main) score 13

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:49.822397+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:34:29.959919+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Surfer-Org/Protocol (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:49.822397+00:00, sha 786d6462ec64)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.