gitmoo-goog

A Google Photos backup tool.

gitmoo-goog tool uses Google Photos API to continously download all photos on a local device.

It can be used as a daemon to keep in sync with a google-photos account.

Specific Changes in this Fork to closer match Google Drive Sync behavior

• Download photos with EXIF data (w/o location because Google strips location).
• Use filenames from Google Photos to name files.
• Use time stamp from EXIF (date taken) for accessed date and modified date (but not creation date)
• Name folders by number of month, instead of name, e.g. 2012/07

Downloading and Installing:

Download:

• Linux
• Windows
• MacOS

Unzip and run, there are no other dependencies.

Usage:

Enable Google-Photos API:

(There is more than one way to do the following):

• Go to API
• Click on Enable the Google Photos API button
• Create a new project, name it whatever you like.
• Write gitmoo-goog in the product name field, (can be whatever you like)
• On the when are you calling from, choose Other, click Create.
• Download the client configuration.

Configure gitmoo-goog:

• Copy the downloaded credentials.json to the same folder with gitmoo-goog .
• run gitmoo-goog, and follow the provided link:
• Sign in, and click Allow
• Copy the token and paste it in the cli.
• gitmoo-goog will authorize and start downloading content.

$ ./gitmoo-goog
2018/09/12 10:18:07 This is gitmoo-goog ver 0.1
Go to the following link in your browser then type the authorization code:
https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth?access_type=...
4/WACqgFeX5OTB8X4LWd5i2TFH....
Saving credential file to: token.json
2018/09/12 10:20:07 Connecting ...
2018/09/12 10:20:07 Processed: 0, Downloaded: 0, Errors: 0, Total Size: 0 B, Waiting 5s

This is probably not what you want, hit crt-c to stop it.

Usage:

Usage of ./gitmoo-goog:
  - album
        download only from this album (use google album id)
  -folder string
        backup folder
  -force
        ignore errors, and force working
  -logfile string
        log to this file
  -loop
        loops forever (use as daemon)
  -max int
        max items to download (default 2147483647)
  -pagesize int
        number of items to download on per API call (default 50)
  -throttle int
        Time, in seconds, to wait between API calls (default 5)

On Linux, running the following is a good practice:

$ ./gitmoo-goog -folder archive -logfile gitmoo.log -loop -throttle 45 &

This will start the process in background, making an API call every 45 seconds, looping forever on all items and saving them to {pwd}/archive.

Logfile will be saved as gitmoo.log.

Naming

Files are created as follows:

[folder][year][month][day]_[hash].json and .jpg. The json file holds the metadata from google-photos.