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Working with the recently-announced API (https://developers.google.com/photos/), I'm not seeing 'isWritable' in any album returned by the v1/albums endpoint, including albums created by my app.

I'm using the "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/photoslibrary" scope, which both the documentation and the consent page indicate should allow uploads, so I'd expect isWritable=true for all the albums.

Can anyone suggest what I might be missing? Thanks.

Jeffrey Friedl
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This is partly a known issue. The isWriteable flag is not always returned when listing albums: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/79497397

Also note that only albums that have been created by your application, given the correct scope has been granted, are writable (ie. the isWriteable: true property will be returned).

There is some more detail on the Authentication and authorization scopes page in the developer documentation that explains the access that is available to applications.

Jan-Felix Schmakeit
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  • Thanks for the reply. The "known issue" you cite was created by me. The docs you cite were changed after I asked the question. Sadly, the situation is just as unappealing as it was when I first reported these issues. – Jeffrey Friedl May 28 '18 at 15:47