goopho

Media from Google Photos? Download all to your disk!

Tested on Linux and Windows.

How to Use?

Currently you need to:

• Clone this from Github (git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/shuntingyard/goopho.git),
• make sure you have Rust/cargo available, e.g. install
• and define your own Google app with scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/photoslibrary.readonly.

Then on Linux run someting like

time RUST_LOG=info cargo run -q -- -c client_secret.json --from-date 2023-10-23 mediadir

inside the directory you just cloned from Github.

Similarly on Windows:

$Env:RUST_LOG="info"
cargo run -q -- -c client_secret.json --from-date 2023-10-23 mediadir
Remove-Item Env:\RUST_LOG

Or if you want to measure time elapsed in PowerShell, something like

Measure-Command { .\target\release\goopho -c client_secret.json E:\mediadir | Out-Default }

will help.

(Software in this repository might easily work on other operating systems. It just has not been tested so far.)

Development TODOs

• We don't seem to depend on Google's get or batch get API parts here. (According to docs this is required, however list seems to provide prefectly valid base_urls.)
• Does hub.media_items().list() guarantee newest-first order?
• If so, break after oldest media file selected.
• Look at distorted pics: sha1 reproducible across runs...
• Duplicate file names?
• Use rust-binary-action on releases?
• Test with DNS down
• Test hub module while taking link down.
• Test download module while taking link down.
• Optionally download Motion GIFs as videos?
• asciinema sample?