Google Photos Library API will stop working March 31, 2025?

[darthwalsh]

I was hoping to try out this project, but does it only have a few months left before the API stops working?

At https://developers.google.com/photos/support/updates I noticed

Listing, searching, and retrieving media items and albums

What's changing: You can now only list, search, and retrieve albums and media items that were created by your app.

What you can do:

• If your app needs users to select photos or albums from their entire library, use to the new Google Photos Picker API. This provides a secure and user-friendly way for users to grant access to specific content.
• If your app relies on accessing the user's entire library, you may need to re-evaluate your app or consider alternative approaches.

As shown on the updated Authorization page, the following scopes will be removed from the Library API after March 31, 2025:

• photoslibrary.readonly
• photoslibrary.sharing
• photoslibrary

i.e. mediaItems.list will soon be

limited to interacting with media items created by your app.

[ArmandBernard]

Not sure if that's why, but trying it today for the first time, this has failed for me with 403 error when it tries to hit https://photoslibrary.googleapis.com/v1/mediaItems?pageSize=100

[Thijs0x57]

The 403 is indeed shown because the API in the tool needs to be changed.
It should now use https://developers.google.com/photos/picker/guides/media-items in combination with giving the Picker API access to your project.

[Thijs0x57]

https://github.com/xob0t/Google-Photos-Toolkit?tab=readme-ov-file
This tool will do what this one does, and it's easier to install/ use anyways.