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A comment on Gmail’s API lockdown will kill some third-party app access, starting July 15.

Re:Gmail’s API lockdown will kill some third-party app acces... by dpacmittal on Friday June 28, 2019 @03:34AM (#20302234)
Slightly off topic, but Google is also discontinuing Google photos and google drive syncing feature. This is currently the only way to access your Google photos with Rclone.
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Re:Gmail’s API lockdown will kill some third-party app acces... by pmlnr on Friday June 28, 2019 @05:58AM (#20302848)
Wait, that's... that's actually bad, unlike Gmail. Drive _is_ a storage endpoint, so is Photos. Not having a way to sync them is a serious issue.
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Re:Gmail’s API lockdown will kill some third-party app acces... by dpacmittal on Friday June 28, 2019 @06:54AM (#20303078)
Yeah. It's ending on July 10 - https://www.blog.google/products/photos/simplifying-google-p...
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Re:Gmail’s API lockdown will kill some third-party app acces... by yrro on Friday June 28, 2019 @10:29AM (#20304620)
To be fair I can't blame them for this--the feature is confusing (I'm pretty sure it's responsible for every photo in my account up to a point in time last year being duplicated [in a rather annoying way--they appear visually identical and have the same EXIF tags and timestamps, but are different sizes, as a result my obsessive compulsive tendency won't let me delete either]).

I presume you can still download all your photos via Google Takeout right?

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Re:Gmail’s API lockdown will kill some third-party app acces... by pmlnr on Friday June 28, 2019 @10:44AM (#20304787)
I do blame them.

Google Photos should have been a frontend for Drive from the beginning. Splitting it into another storage is wrong.

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Re:Gmail’s API lockdown will kill some third-party app acces... by ilikehurdles on Friday June 28, 2019 @11:23AM (#20305217)
Google wants the ability to promise unlimited storage without any of the responsibility of meeting that promise.
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Re:Gmail’s API lockdown will kill some third-party app acces... by SpaethCo on Saturday June 29, 2019 @01:26AM (#20310944)
They offer ways to export your media via the Google Photos API, but you only get the "high quality compressed" version (even if you are storing in original quality) and it strips the location data out of the EXIF tags.

Unless I'm missing something, it looks like the only way to do a full quality bulk export now is using Takeout.

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