Most guides to export Search Console data stop at the Export button, which caps at 1,000 rows per table and gives you whatever report you were looking at. Useful for a slide. Not an export of your data in any real sense.
The honest version of the question is: how do you get all of it out, on a schedule, into storage Google doesn't control? Because the export problem and the 16-month deletion problem are the same problem.
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The four export routes
The UI button. 1,000 rows per table, current report only. Fine for spot checks, and that's where its usefulness ends.
Sheets add-ons. Tools like Search Analytics for Sheets pull from the API on a schedule. Workable for one small site. Across ten properties the spreadsheet quietly becomes your database of record, and nobody is checking whether the add-on still runs.
Your own script. The Search Analytics API returns up to 50,000 rows per day per data type per property, which covers almost any site. In exchange you own token refresh, retries, deduplication, storage, and the two-to-three-day lag between search happening and rows appearing. It works, right up until the month it silently doesn't.
BigQuery bulk export. The heavyweight first-party option. It streams daily tables into a dataset you own, including long-tail queries the API samples away. It also needs a Cloud project with billing enabled, contains nothing from before the day you switched it on, and answers questions only in SQL.
What Month17 replaces
Month17 is the scheduled export, the storage, and the query layer in one subscription. Connect a property and it exports every performance row Google still has, then keeps exporting daily, forever. Nothing to host, no script to babysit, no rows aging out.
The difference from a folder of CSVs is that the archive answers questions. It sits behind an MCP server, so Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client can query the full history in plain language. "Which queries grew every quarter for the last two years" becomes a prompt, not a pivot table.
Free during early access; $10 a month once paid plans arrive.
Whichever route you pick
Start now. Every export option shares one constraint: it can only save what Google still has, and Google deletes a day of your history every day. The data loss calculator shows which of your dates are next.