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Google Photos and Albums backup with Google Photos Library API

18 mentions on Hacker News by 15 people: 2 stories, 16 comments · first 2019-06-12 · latest 2025-09-22

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    Ask HN: Is there no way to incrementally backup from Google photos?
    story by mijoharas · 2025-09-22 · 4 comments
  2. ▲ 3
    Google Photos API changes from March 2025 (2024)
    story by jandeboevrie · 2025-05-31 · 0 comments
  3. …it will affect gphotos-sync, which I have been using reliably for years to backup all my photos... https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync Does anybody have good alternatives? I'm quite used to taking photos on my phone and feeling…
    comment by kaeruct · 2024-09-20 · in Updates to the Google Photos API: Read-Only Scopes Deprecated
  4. …more realtime you can use tools (2) that wrap the browser UI which also exports full quality. (1) https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync#warning-google-api... (2) https://github.com/JakeWharton/docker-gphotos-sync
    comment by yunohn · 2024-01-27 · in Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage
  5. I pull mine from Google Photos, with a docker image running a tool: https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync Its not perfect, but as a backup, it works well.
    comment by briffle · 2023-03-16 · in Is something wrong with Amazon Photos? I lost 240k photos
  6. …time, for every photo/video I take. But I also back up everything I can using the [gphotos-sync]( https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync ) python script. As it says, it's not the 100% quality in either photo or video, but it's still the…
    comment by muppetman · 2023-01-17 · in How my brother's iCloud account was stolen
  7. I use a docker build of this on my Synology NAS: https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync Then I have a task set to start the docker container up at 2am every morning, which then automatically backs up any new images, then the docker…
    comment by recrudesce · 2023-01-15 · in Ask HN: Does anyone have a cold storage for their cloud photo backups?
  8. I used this not too long ago: https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync and it stores photos and videos in a YYYY/MM directory structure. It works extremely well, and you can re-run it any time to sync new files locally too. I used it like…
    comment by buro9 · 2022-09-25 · in Users reporting artifacts appearing in old images stored in Google Photos
  9. …from using Google Takeout to the best of my knowledge. For reference check the best effort project https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync and the "Known Issues with Google API" section. In short: * photos lose some metadata including…
    comment by frederikb · 2022-05-09 · in Ask HN: Google Photos Alternatives?
  10. …of files (it's not only photos and videos) is about $6/month, which is pretty reasonable. [0] https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync [1] https://restic.net/ [2] https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html
    comment by mcjiggerlog · 2022-01-18 · in Ask HN: What is your system for backing up family photos and video?
  11. …google access and pull your photos, without using takeout. https://github.com/dtylman/gitmoo-goog https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync I run one on my wife's account with a cron job to grab new photos daily.
    comment by pnutjam · 2021-05-31 · in Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?
  12. Yeah, https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync . There's a decent guide here: https://ubuntu.com/blog/safely-backup-google-photos . I run this every night on a raspberry pi, syncing them to my local NAS which is in turn backed up to cloud…
    comment by mcjiggerlog · 2021-04-07 · in Screw it, I’ll host it myself
  13. I use gphotos-sync: https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync Run nightly
    comment by wscott · 2020-12-31 · in LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative
  14. I use the google api and this, https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync I backup everything to my local server. I also do some side work, feel free to email me if you would like me to help you set this up, if you have a server, we can do…
    comment by pnutjam · 2020-12-13 · in Unlimited is like a Ponzi Scheme
  15. Looking at the talk about various ways to downlod Google Photos,I use this for regular backups https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync
    comment by ig0r0 · 2020-11-11 · in Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021
  16. …downloading, 50GB max size results in many splits) I've used this 3rd party tool and it worked OK: https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync/
    comment by cuu508 · 2020-04-29 · in De-Googling: My Progress
  17. https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync I run it nightly from my home server. It has a few limitations (due to limitations of the Google Photos API) but overall it does what you want.
    comment by dnr · 2020-04-12 · in YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account
  18. Since I haven't seen it mentioned yet: https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync is a command-line tool (in Python) that downloads (incrementally) your Google Photos content directly using the Photos API, not through Drive. I just set it…
    comment by dnr · 2019-06-12 · in Google Photos will stop syncing to Drive