Google Photos Toolkit

Bulk organize your media

How It Works

In your browser, utilizing GP's undocumented web api

How To Install

1. Install any recommended userscript manager for your browser

   • Violentmonkey
   • Tampermonkey
   • If you're on Android, try Firefox browser, it supports Tampermonkey

2. Click Install

3. Accept installation

How to use

Tutorial

1. Go to photos.google.com and click the GPTK icon in the top bar to open it

   

2. Select a source from which to read from:

   

3. Use Filters to filter found items with:

   

4. Select an action to apply to found items:

   

Finding space-consuming media

This example groups all space-consuming media in one album.

1. Make sure "Library" is the selected source
2. Select SPACE-CONSUMING in the Space filter
3. Select action Add to new album

Deleting all media in the library

As simple as selecting "Library" source, clicking Move to trash, then clearing it.

Use GPTK's api

GPTK exports it's api class globally so you can use it in your browser's console.
It's much more powerful than the UI!

Example usage. Scan the whole library for media owned by ownerName and move it to trash if found.

let nextPageId = null;
const ownerName = "John";
do {
  const page = await gptkApi.getItemsByUploadedDate(nextPageId);
  for (const item of page.items) {
    if (item.isOwned) continue;
    const itemInfo = await gptkApi.getItemInfoExt(item.mediaKey);
    console.log(`${item.mediaKey} is shared by ${itemInfo.owner.name}`);
    if (itemInfo.owner.name == ownerName) {
      await gptkApi.moveItemsToTrash([itemInfo.dedupKey]);
      console.log(`${item.mediaKey} moved to trash`);
    }
  }
  nextPageId = page.nextPageId;
} while (nextPageId);
console.log("DONE");

Contributions welcome

If you want to learn more about how GP's api works, read https://kovatch.medium.com/deciphering-google-batchexecute-74991e4e446c
I just found this post, after doing all the work from zero :D

Also, i've made a userscript that parses all responses and logs them to console in a more readable way, you can find it here - https://github.com/xob0t/Google-Photos-Toolkit/tree/main/tools

BUGS

If something does not work, open an issue and describe it in detail

If you have a question, open a discussion

Credits

Borrowed some code and UI inspiration from undiscord

My Other Google Photos Projects

• GP mobile python client: https://github.com/xob0t/gphotos_mobile_client
• Disguse any file as media for GP to accept and store it: https://github.com/xob0t/gp-file-hide

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