Access Google Photo API with Python using google-api-python-client
from os.path import join, dirname
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
from httplib2 import Http
from oauth2client import file, client, tools
SCOPES = 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/photoslibrary.readonly'
store = file.Storage(join(dirname(__file__), 'token-for-google.json'))
creds = store.get()
if not creds or creds.invalid:
flow = client.flow_from_clientsecrets(join(dirname(__file__), 'client_id.json', SCOPES))
creds = tools.run_flow(flow, store)
google_photos = build('photoslibrary', 'v1', http=creds.authorize(Http()))
day, month, year = ('0', '6', '2019') # Day or month may be 0 => full month resp. year
date_filter = [{"day": day, "month": month, "year": year}] # No leading zeroes for day an month!
nextpagetoken = 'Dummy'
while nextpagetoken != '':
nextpagetoken = '' if nextpagetoken == 'Dummy' else nextpagetoken
results = google_photos.mediaItems().search(
body={"filters": {"dateFilter": {"dates": [{"day": day, "month": month, "year": year}]}},
"pageSize": 10, "pageToken": nextpagetoken}).execute()
# The default number of media items to return at a time is 25. The maximum pageSize is 100.
items = results.get('mediaItems', [])
nextpagetoken = results.get('nextPageToken', '')
for item in items:
print(f"{item['filename']} {item['mimeType']} '{item.get('description', '- -')}'"
f" {item['mediaMetadata']['creationTime']}\nURL: {item['productUrl']}")