Using the Google Photos Library API your app can read, write, and share photos and videos in Google Photos.
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How to get storage details of Google Photos using API - C#
We have been using Picasa Web Albums Data API to perform all required features such as upload photos, GetAlbums list, get album's photos, storage details (how much used).
Now we are migrating to new Google Photos API and we are succeeded in…

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Google Photos API - How to filter albums to get photos (JPEG) only while having albumId set?
I'm trying to filter contents of an album (to get photos only) coming form Google Photos API, but the docs say that:
Filters shouldn't be used in a mediaItems:search request if the
albumId is set. If a filter is used when the albumId is set, an
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What is the best way to create a wallpaper app for android?
I am sure you are fine and happy. I want to create a wallpaper app for android. I am a newbie to be honest.
There used to be picasaweb and its api for storing albums and fetching images on an android application. This api is discontinued now. I…

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Google Photos Library API IDs are invalid
Cached IDs of media items, albums and enrichment items stopped working.
For example, calling mediaItems.get with a media item ID that was stored returns the following error:
{
"error": {
"code": 400,
"message": "Invalid media item ID.",
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Jan-Felix Schmakeit
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Google Photo API - search library
The media:search endpoint is okay, but I really need a keyword search. Just like the actual website has. i.e. football
I've tried using the Google Custom Search API and pointing it to photos.google.com, but that is unable to get past the login…

Kevin Bowsher
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what is the max size of video by using google photoslibrary API?
I try to upload a video (mp4) which is 3.9GB by using the google photoslibrary api.
But it return 400 error.
Is there any file size limit for video?

Kenneth Li
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Is there a way to get all "liked" (heart) images from a shared google photos album
I have a shared Google Photos album with thousands of images where several people marked which images they liked using the heart button. I want to collect all of these images, but I don't see any way to do it other than going through each image…

Rehal
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How to access original media content from Google Photos systematically?
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…

Jyotirmoy Mukherjee
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getting error on jwt.io when trying to get access_token
i'm configuring Oauth2 between google photosapi and aws cognito.
when trying to get access_token in jwt.io from client id and client secret,
i'm keep getting the following error on the jwt.io url when pressing on the view hosted UI…

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How can i obtaining GoogleCredentials using OAuth 2.0 Client ID in Java?
I'm not good at English,
so My sentence is probally weird, I'm sorry
I'm making web project in first time,
then i just want to use google photo api
so i read Get started with Java client library
// Set up the Photos Library Client that interacts…

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how can i configure google photos api for websites which url is of the type: http and not :https
on my websites i use a plugin "oziogallery" to display the content of albums that are stored in google photos. This plugin works with google-photos-api to obtain the result. i configured the api and oauth2 authentication panels with credentials in…
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google api photos and oziogallery plugin in joomla
On my websites i use the plugin oziogallery to display the contents of albums that are stored on google photos.
It uses the api google photos with oauth2 authentication and credentials to do this.
on the sites which url are of the type…
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What could be causing my Google Photos API script to only retrieve metadata for some, but not all, specified albums in a Google Sheet?
Unable to retrieve metadata from all the albums listed in google sheet.
The script below is supposed to retrieve the specified metadata from the list of specified google photos album present in a google sheet, but it is not retrieving metadata for…

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Google Photos API - Error uploading CR3 and HIF files
The uploading and creating processes both respond with status code '200', but the uploaded CR3 and HIF files receive an error message ("Failed: There was an error while trying to create this media item") in the Google Photos app and website. JPEG…

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Resumable upload to Google Photos (Python) - why isn't resuming working?
I wrote the code below to upload files to my Google Photos account. Because uploads of very large files tended to fail, I used the resumable upload REST protocol using the "single request" approach recommended at…

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