<story><title>LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative</title><url>https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tauntz</author><text>What&amp;#x27;s the current recommended way of getting your photos out from Google Photos? And I don&amp;#x27;t mean manually via Google Takeout (that&amp;#x27;s a dumpster fire and doesn&amp;#x27;t work most of the time) but I&amp;#x27;d like to automate it for periodic backups. You never know when you Google Account might be killed, taking tens of years of pictures and videos with it :(</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>daehee</author><text>Check out this google photos export tool by the perkeep team: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;perkeep&amp;#x2F;gphotos-cdp&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;perkeep&amp;#x2F;gphotos-cdp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; This program uses the Chrome DevTools Protocol to drive a Chrome session that downloads your photos stored in Google Photos. By default, it starts at the most ancient item in the library, and progresses towards the most recent. It can be run incrementally, as it keeps track of the last item that was downloaded. It only works with the main library for now, i.e. it does not support the photos moved to Archive, or albums. For each downloaded photo, an external program can be run on it (with the -run flag) right after it is downloaded to e.g. upload it somewhere else.</text></comment>
<story><title>LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative</title><url>https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tauntz</author><text>What&amp;#x27;s the current recommended way of getting your photos out from Google Photos? And I don&amp;#x27;t mean manually via Google Takeout (that&amp;#x27;s a dumpster fire and doesn&amp;#x27;t work most of the time) but I&amp;#x27;d like to automate it for periodic backups. You never know when you Google Account might be killed, taking tens of years of pictures and videos with it :(</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>olliebennett</author><text>Be aware that Google Photos&amp;#x27; API does not provide geolocation (lat&amp;#x2F;long) information from the photos; it&amp;#x27;s wiped.&lt;p&gt;AFAIK The only way to get the photos with all metadata intact is to use Google Takeout.</text></comment>