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Upload photos to Google Photos with Python using Photos Library API

Packages :

httplib2

oauth2client

Source code:

import httplib2 from oauth2client.client import flow_from_clientsecrets from oauth2client.file import Storage from oauth2client.tools import run_flow import requests import os # Start the OAuth flow to retrieve credentials def authorize_credentials(): CLIENT_SECRET = 'client_secret.json' SCOPE = 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/photoslibrary' STORAGE = Storage('credentials.storage') # Fetch credentials from storage credentials = STORAGE.get() # If the credentials doesn't exist in the storage location then run the flow if credentials is None or credentials.invalid: flow = flow_from_clientsecrets(CLIENT_SECRET, scope=SCOPE) http = httplib2.Http() credentials = run_flow(flow, STORAGE, http=http) return credentials def get_access_token(): credentials = authorize_credentials() access_token = credentials.access_token return access_token def getPhotoUrl(access_token, photo_id): # Set the headers for the request headers = { "Authorization": "Bearer " + access_token, "Content-type": "application/json" } # Set the URL for the request url = "https://photoslibrary.googleapis.com/v1/mediaItems/" + photo_id # Send the GET request response = requests.get(url, headers=headers) # Parse the response as JSON response_json = response.json() # Get the URL of the photo from the response photo_url = response_json["baseUrl"] return photo_url def uploadPhoto(): access_token = get_access_token() # Set up the request headers headers = { 'Authorization': 'Bearer %s' % access_token, 'Content-type': 'application/octet-stream', 'X-Goog-Upload-Content-Type': 'image/jpeg', 'X-Goog-Upload-Protocol': 'raw' } image_path = 'photos/john-wick.jpg' # Read the binary data from file with open(image_path, 'rb') as f: image_data = f.read() # Send the POST request to get the upload token response = requests.post('https://photoslibrary.googleapis.com/v1/uploads', headers=headers, data=image_data) # Check if the request was successful and get the upload token if response.status_code == requests.codes.ok: upload_token = response.text headers = { 'Authorization': 'Bearer %s' % access_token, 'Content-type': 'application/json' } payload = { "newMediaItems": [ { "simpleMediaItem": { "fileName": os.path.basename(image_path), "uploadToken": upload_token } } ] } # Send the POST request to get the upload token response = requests.post('https://photoslibrary.googleapis.com/v1/mediaItems:batchCreate', headers=headers, json=payload) json_response = response.json() photo_id = json_response['newMediaItemResults'][0]['mediaItem']['id'] #If you want to get public url for anyone can see photo_url = getPhotoUrl(access_token, photo_id) print("mediaItems full response = ",json_response,'\n\n\n',"public url = ", photo_url) else: response.raise_for_status() uploadPhoto()