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darubramha | 1 year ago

Looks awesome, and will help quick galleries to be created.

I wanted to build something similar, but at that time photos did not expose APIs to get list of photos.

What was your work around? Or have they opened up the APIs now?

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gabigrin|1 year ago

Thanks! We're using the Google Picker API - https://developers.google.com/photos/picker/reference/rest You create a picker "session" which is a link where the user can select images from Google's side. Then you poll the session and once the user is done, you can get access to the media items (imgs and videos) that the user selected.

At first, we wanted to auto-sync galleries and were bummed by the way this API works, but tbh it ended up being more private and secure for the user (no auto-syncing that embarrassing picture that shouldn't be online) and helped us avoid implementing a picker on our end.

gnaman|1 year ago

How long is the session active for? Do you store these photos on your servers?

Alifatisk|1 year ago

Curious about this aswell