Simple but flexible script to upload photos to Google Photos. Useful if you have photos in a directory structure that you want to reflect as Google Photos albums.
usage: upload.py [-h] [--auth auth_file] [--album album_name] [--log log_file] photo_dir
Upload photos to Google Photos.
positional arguments:
photo_dir path to the directory containing image files (filenames must end with .jpg extension)
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--auth auth_file file for reading/storing user authentication tokens. Default ./client_secret.json
--album album_name name of photo album to create (if it has not been created by this script). Any uploaded photos will be added to this album.
--log log_file name of output file for log messages
- Obtain a Google Photos API credentials (Client ID and Client Secret) by following the instructions on Getting started with Google Photos REST APIs
NOTE When selecting your application type in Step 4 of "Request an OAuth 2.0 client ID", please select "Other". There's also no need to carry out step 5 in that section.
- Download the credentials file to a secure place in your machine. The path to this file should be passed to upload.py script by using --auth optional argument. Otherwise, the credentials file will be assumed to be at ./client_secret.json (what would probably be wrong)
- Make sure you have Python 3.7 installed on your system
- If needed, install pipenv via
pip install pipenv - Change to the directory where you installed this script
- Run
pipenv installto download and install all the dependencies - Run
pipenv shellto open a shell with all the dependencies available (you'll need to do this every time you want to run the script) - Now run the script via
python upload.pyas desired. Usepython upload.py -hto get help. As stated in previous section, you should probably use --auth option here