Blogger is one of the world largest online publishing tool, software after wordpress. Blogger offer much more simplicity than wordpress which for some people made easier to write articles and bring the own voice to the Internet.
Free hosting is one of the best features of Blogger, no matter weather you own a domain or using blogspot.com subdomain free blog. Blogger offer unlimited storage of photos, videos and the article content is hosted free on blogger.
People regularly ask me "Where are my blogger photos stored" and some "Where are my blogspot photos stored"
How Blogger photos stored
The content of each blogger post is categorized into two compounds.
- Static compounds like Images, Photos, Gifs, Videos. These are considered as static content which does not frequently change. These are hosted at Google Cloud Archive Storage Data Centers.
- And everything else like Text content, is stored in Google Proprietary software hosted solution like Datastore, Datastore is a highly scalable NoSQL database for your applications. Datastore automatically handles sharding and replication, providing you with a highly available and durable database that scales automatically to handle your applications' load. Datastore provides a myriad of capabilities such as ACID transactions, SQL-like queries, indexes, and much more.
- All blogger photos and text content hosted and made available at their geography data centers
Static Resources compounds like Blogger photos, Blogspot photos are accessible via domain namespace like
- 1.bp.blogspot.com
- 2.bp.blogspot.com
- 3.bp.blogspot.com
- 4.bp.blogspot.com
These are further connected with are world wide load balancer which routes to the nearest data center based on the blogger blog visitor location, ping latency, data center load capacity and more such parameters.
How to Download Blogger photos access Google Album Archive
To Download Blogger self hosted photos visit Google Album Archive, with your blogger account login credentials.
Visit website: https://get.google.com/albumarchive/
Navigate to folder named "Photos From Blogger".
There you can find all folders of Blogger Photos Album Archive, blogs which you have created with your blogger credentials.
Click on any photos to begin download photo.
How to Download Entire Blogger photos with Google Album Archive
To download Entire Blogger photos, navigate to specific Blogger Photo Album Archive folder.
Visit website: https://get.google.com/albumarchive/<your-google-account-id>/albums/photos-from-blogger
Default permissions for Blogger Photo Album Archive are set to Archived mode with Limited, anyone with the link sharing permissions, you can also find the date when you created blogger blog.
On Top Right corner, Click Download album. Entire Blogger photos download will begin in compressed zip archive.
