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Our approach to google photos (as well as most cloud apps) is to have users setup rclone. The reason being is that most apps need oauth which requires an endpoint of some kind that is public. Rclone has a way around that, and is maintained and solved this for a large number of cloud providers. If you use rclone, clone a folder and map it to your device, then everything 'just works'. It keeps the dev maintenance off of us so we can focus on other features (we're a small team after all) and allows the scenario to work |
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As far as I am aware, Google Photos doesn't work with rclone anymore. |
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Ohhh, right...I forgot this was due to the policy change. Yeah it looks like they broke a ton of stuff: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/368816420?pli=1#comment6 Honestly, given that....I'm not keen on trying to support it. When a company breaks 3rd party integrations in that way, it shows that they're not worried about their 3rd party userbase and will change at any time the winds of the business shift. That would mean that our team developing against it would be at their mercy, and any investment could be thrown away if they decide to change a policy (as they did here). the 'picker' api that they expose would require user input and depends on oauth. Given that we are a digital (non touch) photo screen with no public endpoint for Oauth to even authenticate to (users frames aren't exposed to the internet), this would be non trivial to implement. Sorry, I'd love to have the functionality, but when companies do this, we are at their mercy. |
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This is a better thread...some companies built on that API, and google seems to be apathetic to the fact that they nerfed functionality that those businesses relied on: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/368779600 |
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Wondering, has there been any discussion about integrating Google Photos, and grabbing images via an API?
I know this would be really handy for people like me, that have like 10,000 images in Google.
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