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It'd be nice if they offered some sort of backup. I fear I'm going to lose access to all my health reports when they switch over to the parenting-centric model.

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You can download your genotype SNP data as a backup. I don't know about the health reports (are they so voluminous that you cannot open up each in a tab and then save them all as a batch of HTML files?) but there's a partial replacement in the form of the Promethease service which will take a SNP export and try to summarize any interesting hits.

If I scraped it myself, there'd be over 400 pages. Looks like they don't do async fetches for the main pages until you use the risk indicator (e.g. to try different age ranges to see when you're most likely to have a health problem).

So, as long as they don't ban your account for scraping, you could probably write a script to get most of it. I see personalized data in the view-source, which is a good sign (it means they server-render the personalized bit).

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