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Re:Darwin-photos: Back up iCloud Photos without bloating you... by cleanexit0 on Thursday January 08, 2026 @12:36AM (#46537595)
want to clarify if you want to: 1. be able to filter photos by passing in album info, such as `./darwin-photos ls --album "vacation" --start 2023-01-01 --local`, OR 2. backup photos + album info so that we know what album each photos belong to in the backup file (i assume you mean this)

if 2nd, no it is currently not preserving that. it is keeping the original photos only, without much metadata encoded

why do you want album / tags info? can u help me understand your usecase better, thank you very much

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Re:Darwin-photos: Back up iCloud Photos without bloating you... by ggm on Thursday January 08, 2026 @02:19AM (#46538209)
If you can list albums, and then foreach $album fetch, you can (at a cost of probably re fetching images) do what I want and then post fact reduce the duplicates to hard links.

So if the tool includes a list, not fetch function and includes list albums in a format which matches a get album name or ID, you can do what I want crudely.

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Re:Darwin-photos: Back up iCloud Photos without bloating you... by cleanexit0 on Thursday January 08, 2026 @07:14AM (#46540170)
feel free to install the latest version and try: - `darwin-photos albums` list album names - `darwin-photos ls --album <album_name> --json` will list all photos of the album

do let me know if any valuable feature you're looking for

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