simulot/immich-go
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An alternative to the immich-CLI command that doesn't depend on nodejs installation. It tries its best for importing google photos takeout archives.
15 mentions on Hacker News by 14 people: 0 stories, 15 comments · first 2023-11-17 · latest 2026-10-24
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I did google take out > immich and it maintained all meta data. I used https://github.com/simulot/immich-go
comment by slickdork · 2026-10-24 · in Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads -
…point immich-go at it. I can confirm that this works really well. https://takeout.google.com/?pli=1 https://github.com/simulot/immich-go
comment by jmathai · 2026-09-21 · in Noodle Gallery – Self-hosted photo and video manager forked from Immich -
…them into immich* Once I had all my takeout files on the nas, I used immich-go to import them: https://github.com/simulot/immich-go This took a bit of tweaking to get the right set of command line args that worked well for what I wanted it…
comment by luke_s · 2026-07-03 · in Immich 3.0 -
…in that case to import all the photos and let immich handle them moving forward using a tool like https://github.com/simulot/immich-go
comment by hamdingers · 2026-07-02 · in Immich 3.0 -
…to get them into Immich, it will parse all the metadata and recreate albums as you have in GPhotos https://github.com/simulot/immich-go
comment by altran1502 · 2026-07-02 · in Immich 3.0 -
Have you tried https://github.com/simulot/immich-go for dealing with the some of the complexity of google takeout? Not sure how much it actually handles, and whether it can be used easily if you're not migrating to immich, but it's what…
comment by physicles · 2026-06-17 · in Want your images back? That'll be $5 -
…as local directories. It works great, and has gobs of import options to set up albums and tags. [ https://github.com/simulot/immich-go ]
comment by the_cosmos · 2026-01-31 · in My ridiculously robust photo management system (Immich edition) -
…the tunnel when out and about. For uploading photos taken with a camera I either use immich-go ( https://github.com/simulot/immich-go ) or upload them through the web UI. There's a "publish to Immich" plugin for Adobe Lightroom which was…
comment by cuu508 · 2025-11-30 · in Self-hosting my photos with Immich -
…encrypted off-site backups). [0] https://docs.immich.app/features/command-line-interface/ [1] https://github.com/simulot/immich-go
comment by teekert · 2025-10-02 · in Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release -
Immich-go: https://github.com/simulot/immich-go
comment by muppetman · 2025-10-02 · in Stable v2.0.0 Release of Immich -
…into Immich. Immich itself is agnostic to the photos and mostly just operates on folders of files. https://github.com/simulot/immich-go is what I used to import ~300gb of photos from Google Photos to Immich. Not sure how well it works for…
comment by TranquilMarmot · 2025-09-23 · in Android users can now use conversational editing in Google Photos -
Immich.app, with their import from iCloud CLI command to seed it: https://github.com/simulot/immich-go#from-icloud-sub-command
comment by sodality2 · 2025-09-17 · in Apple Photos app corrupts images -
…Photos was pretty easy and it is almost a drop in replacement. I love it. Make sure to checkout https://github.com/simulot/immich-go , it was a great help migrating my Google Takeout to Immich.
comment by N-Krause · 2025-09-08 · in Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management -
…that works with iCloud but it's at least a supported option (...although with a TODO next to it) https://github.com/simulot/immich-go?tab=readme-ov-file#from... > Are there PAYG hosted instanes of Immich? I was really surprised to learn…
comment by TranquilMarmot · 2025-08-23 · in Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org -
…allowed me to migrate hundred of gigabytes of photos from a google takeout backup flawlessly. 1: https://github.com/simulot/immich-go
comment by smashed · 2023-11-17 · in Self-Hosted 110: Google Photos Replacement [audio]