2 new Maps observations

No, it is not takeout @MortenCopenhagen.

I scroll My ContributionsPhotos By Date to the very end, mean while Gavin’s auto load function of A tool that makes filtering photo/video contributions easier. After reaching the oldest photo, I open the developer tools and copy the underlying HTML to clipboard. A Python script reads the clipboard, extracts the views and a unique ID for each photo, updates my photo database and copies an extract CSV to clipboard. The latter, I paste into a spreadsheet to calculate the daily deltas. The result is this:

These are the totals of the last three days: first line my count, second total published on desktop and third on mobile app. Below that the differences:


The minus 133,959 indicates, the total on the mobile Maps yesterday did show more than I actually counted.

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