# mholt/timeliner

All your digital life on a single timeline, stored locally -- DEPRECATED, SEE TIMELINIZE (link below)

Repository: https://github.com/mholt/timeliner
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/timeliner
Homepage: https://timelinize.com
Language: Go
License: AGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: backup, google-photos, twitter, facebook, google-location-history, instagram, oauth2, google-takeout
Archived: true
Last push: 2024-01-19T21:07:12+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2790, "days_push": 957, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3558, forks 112 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:09.734098+00:00)

## What it is
Timeliner is a Go CLI tool that archives your digital life—photos, social media posts, messages, and location history from services like Google Photos, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Google Takeout—into a single local timeline stored in SQLite. It is deprecated in favor of its successor, Timelinize, and no longer receives development.

## Use cases
- back up my google photos library locally
- archive all my tweets and twitter dms
- download my facebook and instagram data into one archive
- keep a local copy of my google location history
- unify my social media posts on one timeline
- export my digital life before deleting accounts

## When to choose
- you need a stable, scriptable CLI archiver for Google Photos, Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram
- you want a lightweight SQLite-based local archive without a UI
- you are maintaining an existing Timeliner setup and do not want to migrate

## When to avoid
- you are starting fresh—use its successor Timelinize instead
- you need a graphical interface to browse your archive
- you rely on Twitter/X API access, which has been cut off
- you need ongoing bug fixes or new data source support

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: abandoned
- function: backup, etl, cli, file-system, auth
- domain: files, privacy, self-hosted, social-media, photography
- platform: windows, cli, go, self-hosted
- tags: personal-archive, data-export, google-takeout, timeline, deprecated, digital-life-archive, sqlite, automation, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- mholt/timeliner (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:09.734098+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 2026-08-29T18:34:15.014419+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/mholt/timeliner (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:09.734098+00:00, sha 04b6129078c7)
  - homepage: https://timelinize.com (fetched 2026-08-29T09:28:06.890186+00:00, sha 90247f53dea0)
  - site_page: https://timelinize.com/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T09:28:06.899362+00:00, sha 1de0819a6308)
  - site_page: https://timelinize.com/docs/data-preparation (fetched 2026-08-29T09:28:06.901169+00:00, sha 413283de201d)
  - site_page: https://timelinize.com/docs/data-sources/facebook (fetched 2026-08-29T09:28:06.902828+00:00, sha 3c685c84e1ee)
  - site_page: https://timelinize.com/docs/data-sources/instagram (fetched 2026-08-29T09:28:06.904453+00:00, sha 9531919cb294)
  - site_page: https://timelinize.com/docs/data-sources/x (fetched 2026-08-29T09:28:06.906113+00:00, sha c4090dfee938)
  - site_page: https://timelinize.com/docs/data-sources/google-photos (fetched 2026-08-29T09:28:06.907739+00:00, sha 4235d867a69a)
  - site_page: https://timelinize.com/docs/data-sources/apple-photos (fetched 2026-08-29T09:28:06.909360+00:00, sha 30ea978be33f)
  - site_page: https://timelinize.com/docs/data-sources/apple-messages (fetched 2026-08-29T09:28:06.911235+00:00, sha 04e155d563b0)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.