In this Google Photos API and Python tutorial series, I will be covering how to use the Google Photos API in Python.
The Photos API has 3 main resources. You can think each resource as a class for a specific purpose. And for each resource, I will make an individual video for each of them.
I will guide you thorugh every single step to the point you can start hit the ground running.
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Google.py
import pickle
import os
from google_auth_oauthlib.flow import Flow, InstalledAppFlow
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
from googleapiclient.http import MediaFileUpload
from google.auth.transport.requests import Request
def Create_Service(client_secret_file, api_name, api_version, *scopes):
print(client_secret_file, api_name, api_version, scopes, sep='-')
CLIENT_SECRET_FILE = client_secret_file
API_SERVICE_NAME = api_name
API_VERSION = api_version
SCOPES = [scope for scope in scopes[0]]
cred = None
pickle_file = f'token_{API_SERVICE_NAME}_{API_VERSION}.pickle'
# print(pickle_file)
if os.path.exists(pickle_file):
with open(pickle_file, 'rb') as token:
cred = pickle.load(token)
if not cred or not cred.valid:
if cred and cred.expired and cred.refresh_token:
cred.refresh(Request())
else:
flow = InstalledAppFlow.from_client_secrets_file(CLIENT_SECRET_FILE, SCOPES)
cred = flow.run_local_server()
with open(pickle_file, 'wb') as token:
pickle.dump(cred, token)
try:
service = build(API_SERVICE_NAME, API_VERSION, credentials=cred)
print(API_SERVICE_NAME, 'service created successfully')
return service
except Exception as e:
print(e)
return None
def convert_to_RFC_datetime(year=1900, month=1, day=1, hour=0, minute=0):
dt = datetime.datetime(year, month, day, hour, minute, 0).isoformat() + 'Z'
return dt
init_photo_service.py
import os
from Google import Create_Service
API_NAME = 'photoslibrary'
API_VERSION = 'v1'
CLIENT_SECRET_FILE = 'client_secret_GoogleAPITutorials_PhotoDesktopApp.json'
SCOPES = ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/photoslibrary',
'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/photoslibrary.sharing']
service = Create_Service(CLIENT_SECRET_FILE,API_NAME, API_VERSION, SCOPES)
Please Help me i used your file too… but
service = Create_Service(CLIENT_SECRET_FILE,API_NAME, API_VERSION, SCOPES)
here Create_Service always rer
owais@debian:~/Fiverr/googlePhotos$ /usr/bin/python3.7 /home/owais/Fiverr/googlePhotos/Google.py
ClientGooglePhotos.json-photoslibrary-v1-([‘https://www.googleapis.com/auth/photoslibrary’, ‘https://www.googleapis.com/auth/photoslibrary.sharing’],)
token_photoslibrary_v1.pickle
name: photoslibrary version: v1
[‘__bool__’, ‘__class__’, ‘__delattr__’, ‘__dir__’, ‘__doc__’, ‘__eq__’, ‘__format__’, ‘__ge__’, ‘__getattribute__’, ‘__gt__’, ‘__hash__’, ‘__init__’, ‘__init_subclass__’, ‘__le__’, ‘__lt__’, ‘__ne__’, ‘__new__’, ‘__reduce__’, ‘__reduce_ex__’, ‘__repr__’, ‘__setattr__’, ‘__sizeof__’, ‘__str__’, ‘__subclasshook__’]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/home/owais/Fiverr/googlePhotos/Google.py”, line 55, in
respons = service.albums().list().execute()
AttributeError: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘albums’
I had the same issue as you (owais).. and now it works with the change.
As mentioned by @miroslav novak in youtube comment (Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkxcd2Q3Qwo)
Need to change the Google.py to include the following extra argument. Otherwise it will not work. That is to add static_discover=False
Correction, to work with the new version of google-api-python-client, it was necessary to pass an extra argument to the build function:
Change this line from this:
service = build(API_SERVICE_NAME, API_VERSION, credentials=cred)
to this:
service = build(API_SERVICE_NAME, API_VERSION, credentials=cred, static_discovery=False)
Hope this helps.
try:
service = build(API_SERVICE_NAME, API_VERSION, credentials=cred)
print(API_SERVICE_NAME, ‘service created successfully’)
return service
except Exception as e:
print(e)
return None
thank you.