Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?
by WhyNotHugo on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @08:50AM
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Thanks! Any reference to the API, even if it's just incomplete docs?
An electron app seems like a huge overkill for something so simple (have you considered just a simple cli instead?).
Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?
by vishnumohandas on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @09:16AM
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The API doc is incomplete and outdated, and I'm embarrassed to share it in its current state. I will update this thread once it is presentable.
The Electron app is indeed an over kill (hence the repo-name "bhari", meaning overweight). But it made it easy for us to reuse stable code that performed authentication, decryption, data-sync, etc. Also, we did not want to commit to the overhead of maintaining another stack (say a CLI or a native app) at a point where the value it would provide to a customer was unclear.
If your current use case is only to sync your uploaded files to a local folder, we have an Electron app that does just that: https://github.com/ente-io/bhari-frame/releases/tag/v1.0.3