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This program uses the Chrome DevTools Protocol to drive a Chrome session that downloads your photos stored in Google Photos.

8 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 1 story, 7 comments · first 2019-12-22 · latest 2022-12-16

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  1. There's also this, which uses Chrome DevTools to automatically scrape it all: https://github.com/perkeep/gphotos-cdp
    comment by Scaevolus · 2022-12-16 · in Tell HN: Doing a chargeback against Google will get your account banned
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    Perkeep/Gphotos-Cdp – Automated Google Photos Downloader
    story by uneekname · 2021-02-19 · 0 comments
  3. …Looks interesting, supports continuation and can be ran on a cron job. Worth a look. [0] https://github.com/perkeep/gphotos-cdp
    comment by budafish · 2021-01-06 · in What I Use Instead of Google
  4. Perkeep devs built a tool to grab the originals: https://github.com/perkeep/gphotos-cdp#gphotos-cdp
    comment by vvanpo · 2021-01-06 · in What I Use Instead of Google
  5. Check out this google photos export tool by the perkeep team: https://github.com/perkeep/gphotos-cdp > This program uses the Chrome DevTools Protocol to drive a Chrome session that downloads your photos stored in Google Photos. By default,…
    comment by daehee · 2020-12-31 · in LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative
  6. …as Camlistore) https://perkeep.org/ and there's even a tool to extract your pics from Google Photos https://github.com/perkeep/gphotos-cdp and move them to Perkeep.
    comment by subsaharancoder · 2020-11-11 · in Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021
  7. …use it, but don't have time to add to it much. Others work on it a bit. Mathieu and I did work on https://github.com/perkeep/gphotos-cdp just recently, to fix the Google Photos importer. So it's still moving a bit. Others still work on it…
    comment by bradfitz · 2020-01-27 · in An Update on Bradfitz: Leaving Google
  8. …is also worth mentioning here. One of their latest tools is the one for exporting Google Photos: https://github.com/perkeep/gphotos-cdp
    comment by gpchelkin · 2019-12-22 · in The sad state of personal data and infrastructure