Photo Uploader

Very simple command line tool for automating photo archiving.

Having your images on your local computer grouped by date, this tool allows uploading files by mask to Google Photos. A new album is created automatically. Name of the album is parsed from folder name that should match a date.
For instance:

/photo/2020-01-02/
/photo/2020_01_02/
/photo/2020_01_02-vacation/jpeg
/photo/2020_01_02 family/

How to install

Checkout this repo: git clone https://github.com/mbryzhko/photouploader.git
Compile: mvnw install -DskipTests
Make a copy of configuration file: /bin/pu.yaml.origin -> /bin/pu.yaml
Specify credentials. See How to retrieve Google Photos Access Key.
Add absolute path of/bin/pu[.cmd] executable file into Path.

How to retrieve Google Photos Access Key

Open Google OAuth Playground in a browser.
Step #1. Specify scope: https://www.googleapis.com/auth/photoslibrary, https://www.googleapis.com/auth/photoslibrary.sharing and press Authorize APIs.
On the next screen select your Google Photos Account.
Step #2. Press button to exchange auth code for the Access Token.
Copy value of the Access token.

Usage

Upload

Navigate to a directory with images that should be uploaded.
If files should be uploaded to already existing album then create a file .uploader and add google_photo_album_id=<album reference>.
Run CLI command: pu upload

Get Album Info