What does HackerNews think of gphotos-cdp?

This program uses the Chrome DevTools Protocol to drive a Chrome session that downloads your photos stored in Google Photos.

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Tell HN: Doing a chargeback against Google will get your account banned | Dec 2022
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There's also this, which uses Chrome DevTools to automatically scrape it all: https://github.com/perkeep/gphotos-cdp
What I Use Instead of Google | Jan 2021
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As others have said Google Photos backup via RClone has some caveats, mainly not downloading at original quality. Google Takeout does solve this but but in weird hierarchies.

I stumbled on a new project which simulates a browser download using a headless Chrome Developer tools session[0]. Looks interesting, supports continuation and can be ran on a cron job. Worth a look.

[0] https://github.com/perkeep/gphotos-cdp
LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative | Dec 2020
Check out this google photos export tool by the perkeep team: https://github.com/perkeep/gphotos-cdp

> 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.

Updating Google Photos’ storage policy to build for the future | Nov 2020
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Another alternative is Perkeep (formerly known as Camlistore) https://perkeep.org/ and there's even a tool to extract your pics from Google Photos https://github.com/perkeep/gphotos-cdp and move them to Perkeep.
An Update on Bradfitz: Leaving Google | Jan 2020
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See:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/perkeep/Kqvh2dJVmoo/9N4YXAuX...

I no longer pay Mathieu to work on it full time, and my time is tempered by 2.5 and 0.5 year old kids.

I still use it, but don't have time to add to it much. Others work on it a bit. Mathieu and I did work on https://github.com/perkeep/gphotos-cdp just recently, to fix the Google Photos importer. So it's still moving a bit. Others still work on it too.

I'll pick up my involvement again as kids get a bit older. (One is almost potty trained and starting preschool soon! :))

We have no plans to abandon it.
The sad state of personal data and infrastructure | Dec 2019
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I think that Perkeep https://perkeep.org/ is also worth mentioning here. One of their latest tools is the one for exporting Google Photos: https://github.com/perkeep/gphotos-cdp