<story><title>Google Photos API</title><url>https://developers.google.com/photos</url><text>Use the Google Photos API to build smarter photo and video features for your product.&lt;p&gt;Developer site: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;developers.google.com&amp;#x2F;photos&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;developers.google.com&amp;#x2F;photos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;With the API you can help users transfer, share and bring their content into your app more easily (including features like auto-organized categories and creating link-shareable albums).&lt;p&gt;API is now launched to General Availability, with official client libraries and sample apps for Java &amp;amp; PHP (and more in the works!).&lt;p&gt;Large app integrations are also encouraged to join the Google Photos Partner Program. Check the developer site for more info.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ariwilson</author><text>This is a tired meme given that the number of Google services closed has been mostly going down since 2013. See also &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;List_of_Google_products#Discontinued_products_and_services&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;List_of_Google_products#Discon...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  2006 3
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  2012 19
  2013 11
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  2016 11 (actually 8 if you don&amp;#x27;t count things that got merged into other things)
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  2018 2&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></item><item><author>highace</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Use the Google Photos API to build smarter photo and video features for your product&lt;/i&gt;... until we deprecate the API in a couple years time and leave you up shit creek.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RobertRoberts</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t care anymore. I am now in the process of removing Google Maps from every system we run because of their screwing over their users and their devs. I have thousands of dollars of time to spend ahead of me because of the changes to Google Maps this past month alone.&lt;p&gt;I get it, it&amp;#x27;s expensive to run maps, it&amp;#x27;s not free. But this is multiple-times burned by these guys. So the threshold of toleration is lower with Google than other businesses&amp;#x2F;services.&lt;p&gt;Nothing free from Google is ever going on anymore of my sites or software unless it is setup with an alternative already in place so when they do _anything_ ridiculous, they can be dropped instantly. But as of right now, the plan is a complete purge of Google.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Photos API</title><url>https://developers.google.com/photos</url><text>Use the Google Photos API to build smarter photo and video features for your product.&lt;p&gt;Developer site: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;developers.google.com&amp;#x2F;photos&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;developers.google.com&amp;#x2F;photos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;With the API you can help users transfer, share and bring their content into your app more easily (including features like auto-organized categories and creating link-shareable albums).&lt;p&gt;API is now launched to General Availability, with official client libraries and sample apps for Java &amp;amp; PHP (and more in the works!).&lt;p&gt;Large app integrations are also encouraged to join the Google Photos Partner Program. Check the developer site for more info.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>ariwilson</author><text>This is a tired meme given that the number of Google services closed has been mostly going down since 2013. See also &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;List_of_Google_products#Discontinued_products_and_services&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;List_of_Google_products#Discon...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  2006 3
  2007 4
  2008 5
  2009 7
  2010 4
  2011 16
  2012 19
  2013 11
  2014 7
  2015 6
  2016 11 (actually 8 if you don&amp;#x27;t count things that got merged into other things)
  2017 4
  2018 2&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></item><item><author>highace</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Use the Google Photos API to build smarter photo and video features for your product&lt;/i&gt;... until we deprecate the API in a couple years time and leave you up shit creek.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hellcow</author><text>According to your own citation, Google deprecated &lt;i&gt;multiple&lt;/i&gt; APIs every year. So the odds of Google cutting off access to an API you use may be decreasing... But it&amp;#x27;s still nowhere near zero, and it&amp;#x27;s still a valid concern.</text></comment>