gphotos-upload-multiple-chunks

Simple but flexible script to upload photos or videos to Google Photos. Useful if you have photos/videos in a directory structure that you want to reflect as Google Photos albums.

This fork provides file uploads in multiple chunks with retrying behaviour to prevent transmission errors and RAM exhaustion while uploading large items.

Install

You need to install at least the following prerequisites:

• Python 3.7
• Python Magic 0.4.14 pip install python-magic-bin==0.4.14
• Tenacity 6.0.0 pip install tenacity==6.0.0
• Glob2 0.7 pip install glob2==0.7

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.

Usage

usage: upload.py [-h] [--auth  auth_file] [--album album_name]
                 [--log log_file] [--glob_videos videos_dir]
                 [--glob_images images_dir] [--delete_files]
                 [item [item ...]]

Upload items (photo/video) to Google Photos.

positional arguments:
  item                  filename of a item 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 album to create (if it doesn't exist). Any
                        uploaded item will be added to this album.
  --log log_file        name of output file for log messages
  --glob_videos videos_dir
                        search a provided directory recursively for video
                        files
  --glob_images images_dir
                        search a provided directory recursively for images
                        files
  --delete_files        switch to enable the deletion of files after
                        successfull upload

Credits

forked from https://github.com/eshmu/gphotos-upload