Google Photos
Google photo library for storing, browsing, and organizing photos, videos, albums, and media metadata.
Best for organizing media libraries by creating albums, adding photos or videos to albums, and reading media items from a Google Photos account.
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What Snow can do with Google Photos
These are the Google Photos operations Snow and the apps you build with it can run. Sign in to choose which ones Snow may run without asking.
Reads7
Look at your data without changing it.
- Batch Get Media Items
Returns the list of media items for the specified media item identifiers.
- Download Photos Media Item
Downloads a media item from Google Photos and returns it as a file.
- Get Album
Returns the album based on the specified albumId.
- List Albums
Lists all albums shown to a user in the Albums tab of Google Photos.
- List Media Items (App-Created Only)
Lists media items created by this application from Google Photos. DEPRECATION NOTICE: As of March 31, 2025, the Google Photos Library API ONLY returns media items that were uploaded/created by your application. This action CANNOT access the user's full photo library. Use cases this action SUPPORTS: - Listing photos/videos your app previously uploaded to the user's library - Managing app-created content in Google Photos Use cases this action DOES NOT SUPPORT: - Accessing photos taken by the user's camera - Viewing photos from other apps or web uploads - Listing the user's entire photo library For accessing a user's full library, use the Google Photos Picker API instead: https://developers.google.com/photos/picker
- List Shared Albums (Deprecated)
No description available.
- Search Media Items
Searches for media items in a user's Google Photos library.
Creates4
Add something new to your account.
- Add Enrichment
Adds an enrichment at a specified position in a defined album.
- Batch Create Media Items
Batch upload and create media items in Google Photos. Supports three input methods: 1. 'urls': Simple list of public URLs (file names extracted automatically) 2. 'media_files': List of objects with url/file, file_name, and description 3. 'files': List of uploaded files Media items can optionally be added to an album at a specific position. Maximum 50 items per request.
- Create Album
Creates a new album in Google Photos.
- Upload Media
Upload a media file to Google Photos. Supports images (up to 200MB) and videos (up to 20GB).
Updates3
Change something that is already there.
- Batch Add Media Items
Adds one or more media items to an album in Google Photos.
- Update Album
Updates an album's title or cover photo in Google Photos.
- Update Media Item
Updates a media item's description in Google Photos.
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