gphotos-upload

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

usage: upload.py [-h] [--auth  auth_file] [--album album_name]
                 [--log log_file]
                 [photo [photo ...]]

Upload photos to Google Photos.

positional arguments:
  photo               filename of a photo to upload

optional arguments:
  -h, --help          show this help message and exit
  --auth  auth_file   file for reading/storing user authentication tokens
  --album album_name  name of photo album to create (if it doesn't exist). Any
                      uploaded photos will be added to this album.
  --log log_file      name of output file for log messages

Setup

Obtaining a Google Photos API key

1. Obtain a Google Photos API key (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.

2. Replace YOUR_CLIENT_ID in the client_id.json file with the provided Client ID.
3. Replace YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET in the client_id.json file wiht the provided Client Secret.

Installing dependencies and running the script

1. Make sure you have Python 3.7 installed on your system
2. If needed, install pipenv via pip install pipenv
3. Change to the directory where you installed this script
4. Run pipenv install to download and install all the dependencies
5. Run pipenv shell to open a shell with all the dependencies available (you'll need to do this every time you want to run the script)
6. Now run the script via python upload.py as desired. Use python upload.py -h to get help.