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Re:Google users locked out after 15 years' use by Chilinot on Monday November 02, 2020 @07:04AM (#24967157)
This is why i have setup one of my linux servers to automatically download all photos and videos from my shared google photo albums each night.

This allows me and my wife to easily share photos of our daughter with each other, as well as have a backup of everything we have locally on my NAS.

Next step is to sync this of to several other storage places in case of cryptolocker or the NAS dies.

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Re:Google users locked out after 15 years' use by mtber on Monday November 02, 2020 @07:39AM (#24967478)
I didn't realize this would be possible. Would you happen to have a guide somewhere?
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Re:Google users locked out after 15 years' use by jsannn on Monday November 02, 2020 @07:54AM (#24967624)
You can do it with python - https://pypi.org/project/gphotos-sync. They have docker image too. I have a cron job that starts the docker container periodically to fetch any new photos.
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Re:Google users locked out after 15 years' use by ewokone on Monday November 02, 2020 @08:33AM (#24967941)
i found gphoto sync is suitable for that. https://pypi.org/project/gphotos-sync/
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Re:Google users locked out after 15 years' use by ewokone on Monday November 02, 2020 @07:47AM (#24967559)
bump. that's sound a good alternative! please get us a note on how to a(r)chieve that :)
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Re:Google users locked out after 15 years' use by faitswulff on Monday November 02, 2020 @07:35AM (#24967444)
Do you automatically download all of your photos and videos, or just the ones taken during the day?
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Re:Google users locked out after 15 years' use by Chilinot on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @01:41PM (#24982582)
I just software that downloads everything from my google photos albums and then only downloads any changes after that. Like rsync.
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Re:Google users locked out after 15 years' use by cl3misch on Monday November 02, 2020 @07:37AM (#24967464)
How do you access Google Photos from Linux? Is it able to detect only the new pictures?
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Re:Google users locked out after 15 years' use by kolleykibber on Monday November 02, 2020 @07:56AM (#24967632)
It looks like gphotos-sync is the way to do this.

Must be new as I was looking for a tool like this a few years ago and nothing existed.

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