A tool to maintain an archive/mirror of your Google Photos library for backup purposes.

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Overview

Google Photos Archiver

Updated Instructions 8/9/2021 Version 2.0.6

Instructions:

  1. Download the script (exe or python script listed below)
  2. Follow the instructions in the Google Slides Presentation
  3. Reference the command guide below to learn the different commands available to you.

If you need assistance or want to report an issue fill out an Issue Report or email me nick (at) ndawson.me

Downloads

Windows 10 (64-bit) Executable

If you are unfamiliar with python or computers in general I recommend you download the Win10 64bit Executable as it will not require any special installation.

Python Script

If you are familiar with python, just download the source code

Install pipenv pip install pipenv

Install dependencies using pipenv pipenv install

Commands

This guide assumes you have downloaded Google API Credentials and have them saved in some location on your computer, if you have no idea what this is please follow the Google Slides Presentation

Usage:

usage: gparch_cli.py [-h] [-c CREDENTIALS] [-t THREADS] [-a] [-s] [-f] [directory]

- If no directory arg is provided the program will default to the current working directory.
- If no credentials are provided the program will search for 'credentials.json' in the directory.
- If no download options are provided, the program will download everything.
- The program automatically skips downloading existing files so running the program with any download option after downloading items already will update everything without re-downloading or deleting existing media. It will only ensure everything is downloaded from Google Photos.

positional arguments:
  directory             directory where your photo library is saved

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -c CREDENTIALS, --credentials CREDENTIALS
                        path to Google Cloud OAuth2 Credentials (default: {CURRENT_DIR}/credentials.json)
  -t THREADS, --threads THREADS
                        amount of threads to use when downloading media items (default: 8)
  -d, --debug           enables debugging mode
  -a, --albums          download all albums YOU have created
  -s, --shared          download all shared albums (with you/from you)
  -f, --favorites       download all media from your library that is marked as favorite

Important Note:

In the following examples I will be using gparch_cli to run the program for readability. I am listing below all the different ways you may have to run the program to get it to work on your system.

Executable (in the same directory or in PATH)

Command Prompt: gparch_cli PowerShell: ./gparch_cli

Python Script (in the same directory or in PATH)

Windows: py gparch_cli.py Linux/Mac: python3 gpararch_cli.py

Examples

Get Help gparch_cli --help

Download everything from your library in the current directory with the credentials file in the current directory named credentials.json gparch_cli

Download everything from your library to a specific directory gparch_cli example_directory/google_photos_folder

Download everything from your library to a specific directory and specify where your credentials file is gparch_cli example_directory/google_photos_folder -c example_directory/creds.json

Download just your albums gparch_cli -a

Download just your shared albums gparch_cli -s

Download just your favorited items gparch_cli -f

Specify the amount of threads you want to download with to be 12: gparch_cli -t 12

You can combine any of the following commands to do what you specifically want.

  • If no directory arg is provided the program will default to the current working directory.
  • If no credentials are provided the program will search for 'credentials.json' in the directory.
  • If no download options are provided, the program will download everything.
  • The program automatically skips downloading existing files so running the program with any download option after downloading items already will update everything without re-downloading or deleting existing media. It will only ensure everything is downloaded from Google Photos.
Comments
  • Instructions on how to generate the .exe file

    Instructions on how to generate the .exe file

    What tool did you use to generate the .exe file? I tried pyinstaller but seems to require some extra configuration. If you used the same tool, did you have to add anything to the .spec file for resolving dependencies?

    opened by patrickjrs 4
  • RAW Images stored in Google Photos cannot be downloaded

    RAW Images stored in Google Photos cannot be downloaded

    It seems that raw photos from dedicated cameras that are stored in Google Photos won't be able to be downloaded as Python's pillow library doesn't seem to support them. As this is an upstream issue it might be difficult to find a fix, but it seems that most RAW formats aren't supported by Pillow and instead rawpy is usually used.

    I have thousands of .arw images stored in my Google Photos which is a raw image format used by almost all Sony cameras.

    Upstream Issue: https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/issues/3124

    ✔ Finished Downloading Shared Albums.

Reading Entire Library From Server...

Downloading Library:  16%|████████████████████████████████████████████▉  | 3539/22777 [00:04<00:09, 1956.83 media items/s]
ERROR: media item could not be downloaded because: unknown file extension: .arw
ERROR: media item could not be downloaded because: unknown file extension: .arw
ERROR: media item could not be downloaded because: unknown file extension: .arw
ERROR: media item could not be downloaded because: unknown file extension: .arw
ERROR: media item could not be downloaded because: unknown file extension: .arw
    opened by Snuggle 3
  • Move google docs instruction file into git to be more permanent and easier to access

    Move google docs instruction file into git to be more permanent and easier to access

    Google docs tend to vanish over time. If someone finds this in a few years, after the project is long abandoned, you may have already cleaned up your docs. Or you accidentally move the file and the link will become invalid, making the project near-unusable. I recreated the instructions in an .md file right in the repo.

    opened by JuliusJacobsohn 2
  • Duplicate Name Issue

    Duplicate Name Issue

    I have a ton of duplicate named photos in my Google Photos account and it looks like the app just skips them. Happy to help troubleshoot this if needed.

    I have attached an example.

    Screenshot 2022-06-29 112855 Screenshot 2022-06-29 113016

    opened by safewithyou247 2
  • Download loses exif data and considerable size

    Download loses exif data and considerable size

    Image files downloaded from a Shared album

    1. file are severely compressed eg 2M instead of 8M
    2. EXIFdata - specifically GPS data - has been removed

    The same file downloaded through the web has all data intact

    Why is this? Can it be easily avoided?

    wontfix 
    opened by blacktav 2
  • 🐛 Fix issue where 'mediaItems' is missing from request

    🐛 Fix issue where 'mediaItems' is missing from request

    Very small fix, only add mediaItems to the list if they actually exist.

    This exception is caused by a request looking like below, missing the mediaItems but still having a nextPageToken:

    >>> print(request)
{'nextPageToken': 'abcabc'}
>>> media_items_list += request["mediaItems"]

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Volumes/Homesweet/GooglePhotoArchiver/gparch_cli.py", line 127, in <module>
    account.download_library()
  File "/Volumes/Homesweet/GooglePhotoArchiver/gparch.py", line 281, in download_library
    items = self.process_media_items(self.list_media_items(), self.lib_dir)
  File "/Volumes/Homesweet/GooglePhotoArchiver/gparch.py", line 356, in list_media_items
    media_items_list += request["mediaItems"]
KeyError: 'mediaItems'

    Fixes #6

    opened by Snuggle 2
  • Program closes before making folder

    Program closes before making folder

    After following the google slides pages, everything goes through successfully. However, after seeing the confirmation page of the authentication flow working, the program closes and no folder is made. The "photoslibrary_token.pickle" is in the directory, but nothing else is created.

    opened by rw377 2
  • PhotosAccount.list_albums(): KeyError: 'albums'

    PhotosAccount.list_albums(): KeyError: 'albums'

    7f581a5b-3138-46bb-bc6e-ab968adef98d This was submitted by a user and needs to be investigated as to why this could be happening.

    Some possible fixes would be to add better debugging and add exceptions for this type of error to find the cause.

    opened by nmd2117 1
  • Unable to Run to get all Albums or Photos

    Unable to Run to get all Albums or Photos

    Hello,

    I have no problem downloading favorites or shared albums, however when I attempt to download albums or photos I encounter: KerError: 'albums' for Albums, or gparch_cli: error: unrecognized arguments: Photos.

    Otherwise this is a fantastic tool that does exactly what I've been looking for as Google Takeout is completely broken for me.

    opened by cobra88king8 1
  • Exe stops right after starting

    Exe stops right after starting

    Followed the instructions, everything seemed fine, but the exe doesn't start downloading. Managed to time this screenshot just right, before it quits.

    image image

    opened by BalazsAdorjan 1
  • fix googleapiclient.errors.UnknownApiNameOrVersion: name: photoslibrary version: v1

    fix googleapiclient.errors.UnknownApiNameOrVersion: name: photoslibrary version: v1

    I was getting the following error running this on my mac:

    Getting API Service...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/gligoran/dev/GooglePhotosArchiver/google_photos_archiver.py", line 50, in <module>
    service = get_service()
  File "/Users/gligoran/dev/GooglePhotosArchiver/google_photos_archiver.py", line 32, in get_service
    return build('photoslibrary', 'v1', credentials=creds)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/googleapiclient/_helpers.py", line 134, in positional_wrapper
    return wrapped(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/googleapiclient/discovery.py", line 291, in build
    content = _retrieve_discovery_doc(
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/googleapiclient/discovery.py", line 405, in _retrieve_discovery_doc
    raise UnknownApiNameOrVersion("name: %s  version: %s" % (serviceName, version))
googleapiclient.errors.UnknownApiNameOrVersion: name: photoslibrary  version: v1

    This addition fixed it for me.

    opened by gligoran 1
  • Bump certifi from 2021.10.8 to 2022.12.7

    Bump certifi from 2021.10.8 to 2022.12.7

    Bumps certifi from 2021.10.8 to 2022.12.7.

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  • Bump pillow from 9.0.1 to 9.3.0

    Bump pillow from 9.0.1 to 9.3.0

    Bumps pillow from 9.0.1 to 9.3.0.

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    Sourced from pillow's releases.

    9.3.0

    https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/releasenotes/9.3.0.html

    Changes

    ... (truncated)

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    Sourced from pillow's changelog.

    9.3.0 (2022-10-29)

    • Limit SAMPLESPERPIXEL to avoid runtime DOS #6700 [wiredfool]

    • Initialize libtiff buffer when saving #6699 [radarhere]

    • Inline fname2char to fix memory leak #6329 [nulano]

    • Fix memory leaks related to text features #6330 [nulano]

    • Use double quotes for version check on old CPython on Windows #6695 [hugovk]

    • Remove backup implementation of Round for Windows platforms #6693 [cgohlke]

    • Fixed set_variation_by_name offset #6445 [radarhere]

    • Fix malloc in _imagingft.c:font_setvaraxes #6690 [cgohlke]

    • Release Python GIL when converting images using matrix operations #6418 [hmaarrfk]

    • Added ExifTags enums #6630 [radarhere]

    • Do not modify previous frame when calculating delta in PNG #6683 [radarhere]

    • Added support for reading BMP images with RLE4 compression #6674 [npjg, radarhere]

    • Decode JPEG compressed BLP1 data in original mode #6678 [radarhere]

    • Added GPS TIFF tag info #6661 [radarhere]

    • Added conversion between RGB/RGBA/RGBX and LAB #6647 [radarhere]

    • Do not attempt normalization if mode is already normal #6644 [radarhere]

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  • Photos not downloading

    Photos not downloading

    I have about 62k photos in my Google Photos, after downloading all my favourites, albums and shared albums, the app downloaded about 3800 photos from my library and then stopped downloading. The progress bar suddenly started flying up very quickly but no new photos are being saved to my device and the available storage on my hard drive isn’t changing at all - it runs until completion with no errors but no additional photos are downloaded. This happened yesterday, tried again today with the same result. Happy to provide any info that might be helpful! Thanks

    opened by nathbullen 0
  • Bump oauthlib from 3.2.0 to 3.2.1

    Bump oauthlib from 3.2.0 to 3.2.1

    Bumps oauthlib from 3.2.0 to 3.2.1.

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    3.2.1

    In short

    OAuth2.0 Provider:

    • #803 : Metadata endpoint support of non-HTTPS
    • CVE-2022-36087

    OAuth1.0:

    • #818 : Allow IPv6 being parsed by signature

    General:

    • Improved and fixed documentation warnings.
    • Cosmetic changes based on isort

    What's Changed

    New Contributors

    Full Changelog: https://github.com/oauthlib/oauthlib/compare/v3.2.0...v3.2.1

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    3.2.1 (2022-09-09)

    OAuth2.0 Provider:

    • #803: Metadata endpoint support of non-HTTPS
    • CVE-2022-36087

    OAuth1.0:

    • #818: Allow IPv6 being parsed by signature

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    • Improved and fixed documentation warnings.
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    • 7db45bd Fix typo in server.rst
    • b14ad85 chore: s/bode_code_verifier/body_code_verifier/g
    • b123283 Allow non-HTTPS issuer when OAUTHLIB_INSECURE_TRANSPORT. (#803)
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  • Feature: Add media metadata after download

    Feature: Add media metadata after download

    Hi, just recently installed the archiver. Thanks for this usefull tool. Could it be possible to add geolocation metadata to the file downloaded (in fact all metadata available in json file from the library. I saw you have already exif tools (from issue#16 comments), do you think it is possible ? Thanks.

    opened by patxixi 0
  • Down

    Down

    Hi, I managed to download everything and it seems (judging by the size) the photos have been added to the SQLite Photo library, however, when I open Photos I see no photos. I'm using Mac Catalina (iMac).

    Downloading Library: 100%|████| 56569/56569 [1:01:12<00:00, 15.40 media items/s] ✔ Finished Downloading Everything.

    opened by ccjcan 0
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