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This happened to a handful of photos,Īll from the same day. $ python3 photosync.py -dir=/target/directory -all $ python3 photosync.py -dir=/target/directory -dates=: # to check *all* photos available for January 2000: dir so that your photos don't end up in the current directory.

Run it: python3 photosync.py -help or, if you installed it with pip,Ĭonsult the help text printed by the last command.

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Alternatively, build an egg python setup.py bdist_egg and install itĮasy_install dist/photosync-py.egg.Or you use pipenv using the provided Pipfile: pipenv shell & pipenv install, after which you can use python photosync.py.Installs dependencies needed by the program. Go into the photosync repository and run pip install.Clone this repository to a convenient place: git clone or hg clone git+.Once you have gone through the hassle of obtaining the client secret, you can start downloading your photos. Meaning you don't have to explicitly specify them on any further invocations. After the first run, credentials are cached in the internal SQLite database,.By default, photosync will look for a file called clientsecret.json in Save the downloaded JSON file and put it somewhere, for example in your photos directory.Then go to the Credentials page and create a new client ID (type other).Set up the OAuth consent screen (otherwise Google will nag you during credentials creation to do it).

Go to the APIs page and enable the Google Photos API.Ensure you are on the right project or create a new one.Also, the daily limit for Photos API calls is atġ0'000, so it wouldn't work for a nontrivial number of users anyway. This is necessary because this is an open source project, and I don't want clientĬredentials associated with my account floating around in the wild. Install & Useįirst, acquire a client secret. Without the -all option, it will resume synchronization where it left off.Īlbums are currently ignored. But you can always stop photosync and restart it later Note that this (obviously) takes a while for large libraries.

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Mapping photos to directories and override it by setting the path_mapper argument in the Driver constructor called Organize photos in directories like year/month/day/ (numerically, 0-padded), but you can write your own method of Photos that are not yet marked as downloaded in the database and fetch the actual image files.

Once no more new photos are fetched and all metadata is stored in sync.db, photosync will look for

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The (resumable) download takes another few hours, depending on latency and photo size.īy default, photosync will ask for OAuth2 authorization on the console, and then immediately start downloading metadataįrom Google Photos. My library of ~50'000 photos was indexed in roughly an hour Photosync is fast enough for reasonably large libraries. Don't worry about deleting photos locally although you have to use the slow -resync option to re-download them. the synchronization works from Google Photos as Source of Truth to your local Photosync only ever downloads photos, i.e. Program downloads all photos from your Google Photos account and organizes them locally. Now that Google deprecated the PhotosDrive synchronization, I need another way to back up my photos locally.

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