I am looking for a way to access the exact original content that is backed up over the years in Google Photos.
This has all the download options for photos and videos through APIs but none provides the original size/quality of the content when that is backed up.
After years of using Google photos automated backup from android devices, I find it costlier now. They are about memories and I opted to backup them with the original quality in Google photos backup settings causing the storage threshold filling up quickly and I have to pay more monthly to increase my Google account's storage capacity to continue to use the cloud storage.
I found another online media storage solution which is way too cost effective than Google. I have a huge number of photos and videos backed up over the years and I want to use the Google photos APIs to download them and upload to the new solution in the same quality I captured them but to my surprise I think Google still don't have any API at all providing the original quality of the media.
This effectively means, Google is charging for all the storage that original quality media content takes, but it’s not allowing customers to access that original content systematically. This seems to be a strategy to hook customers with them forever and keep the billing meter on.
Anyone knows if Google has any plans to give its customers complete access through all authentic means (Including APIs) to Google Photos to access their own data?
I tried the following and none works (practically for an average consumer) when there is hundreds of GBs of data
- Manual download on Google Fotos
- Manual download via Google Takeout
I expect the same content to be available systematically (APIs etc.)
