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Manage your Google Photo account with Python! (p.1)

Davide Del Papa on May 17, 2020

(Photo by Brandon Erlinger-Ford on Unsplash) Chances are that if you have an Android device with a Google account connected to it, you have alread...
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Robin Mills • • Edited

Wow. Great Work. Your code worked first time for me and showed me a photo from my Google Photo Library that I took on Thursday.

Now, I'm going to read your code and discover how you did that. Amazing.

I'm the retired maintainer of Exiv2 the C++ Metadata Library. exiv2.org

I'm rebuilding my web-site from scratch because it's 20 years old, has 80,000 photos in 2000 albums, 400,000 files and occupies 10GB on the web-server. I'm going to store the photos on Google Photos and generate the photo albums in JavaScript. I've made good progress and confident that the web-site will be less than 100mb by the end of September. Here's a typical album web-page: clanmills.com/2021/Lizzie

The code for the page is:

505 rmills@rmillsm1:~/clanmills $ cat 2021/Lizzie/default.shtml 
<!--#include virtual="/albumhead.inc" -->
<!--#include virtual="/menu.inc" -->
<!--#include virtual="/albumtail.inc" -->
<script type="text/javascript">
   var title   = "Lizzie"
   var data    = 'https://photos.app.goo.gl/sQRaVMZiyTr5T74y8'
   var updated = '2021-08-20 14:52:25'
   buildPage();
</script>
506 rmills@rmillsm1:~/clanmills $
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The next job is to understand enough Python/REST/Photos magic to generate the list of album files automatically. The script will run once a day at home and update clanmills.com. So, when I take photos with my phone, they be posted on clanmills.com without moving a finger.

Thanks to your python code, I'm confident of success. Thank You Very Much.

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Davide Del Papa •

You are welcome. I made the lib to script access to my wedding pics myself, so I guess your use case should be not too difficult to tackle as well.
Good luck 🤞

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Robin Mills •

Davide: I love your code. It's beautiful and clear.

I fixed a tiny bug in album.py. When I iterate the albums (I have 250 albums) the loop dies at the end saying "object isn't interable:"

    'title': 'BoysInSanJose2002'}
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Library/Python/3.8/site-packages/gphotospy/album.py", line 533, in list
    for album in curr_list:
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable
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Here's my fix:

0a1
> from collections.abc import Iterable
533,534c534,536
<             for album in curr_list:
<                 yield album
---
>             if isinstance(curr_list, Iterable):
>                 for album in curr_list:
>                     yield album
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Question. Is the code in GitHub. Can I provide a PR if I find other issues?

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Happy985 •

Hello,

When I creat "OAuth client ID" I choose "Web application" because there are not "other"in the new version.
So I download my Json file as you said. but I execute this line code
"service = authorize.init(CLIENT_SECRET_FILE)"
I obtain this Error.
So what is the problem please
Thank you

File "C:\Users\Admin\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\gphotospy\authorize.py", line 55, in init
credentials = get_credentials(secrets)

File "C:\Users\Admin\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\gphotospy\authorize.py", line 34, in get_credentials
credentials = app_flow.run_local_server()

File "C:\Users\Admin\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\google_auth_oauthlib\flow.py", line 458, in run_local_server
host, port, wsgi_app, handler_class=_WSGIRequestHandler

File "C:\Users\Admin\Anaconda3\lib\wsgiref\simple_server.py", line 153, in make_server
server = server_class((host, port), handler_class)

File "C:\Users\Admin\Anaconda3\lib\socketserver.py", line 452, in init
self.server_bind()

File "C:\Users\Admin\Anaconda3\lib\wsgiref\simple_server.py", line 50, in server_bind
HTTPServer.server_bind(self)

File "C:\Users\Admin\Anaconda3\lib\http\server.py", line 137, in server_bind
socketserver.TCPServer.server_bind(self)

File "C:\Users\Admin\Anaconda3\lib\socketserver.py", line 466, in server_bind
self.socket.bind(self.server_address)

OSError: [WinError 10013] Une tentative d’accès à un socket de manière interdite par ses autorisations d’accès a été tentée