in 2009 I wrote a Python script for this-as part of this project I updated it for Python 3 and pushed a release to PyPI. When faced with unknown XML like this it’s useful to get a high level overview of what tags are present. These files can get BIG, because any images attached to your notes will be embedded as base64 encoded binary data within the XML. Select a note-or multiple notes-in the Evernote macOS desktop app, use the File -> Export Notes menu item and Evernote will create a Notes.enex exported XML file. Last weekend I decided to try using their “Export notes” feature instead, and its ENEX XML format. Unfortunately the API is implemented using Thrift (the only public API I’ve seen to use that) and my attempts to speak to it from Python have so far failed to get anywhere. Ideally I’d use their API for that, so I could continually export new notes via a cron. I’ve been using Evernote for over a decade, and I’ve long wanted to export my data from it so I can do interesting things with it.

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