README.md

Google-Drive-2-Photos using Openshift

A python script to Directly Transfer photos from Google drive -> Google photos Using Openshift

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Description

Google Drive - Using the Drive API

Google Photos - Doesn't provide an API till date and this method is based on reverse-engineering the Google Photos Web Upload.

Hence for this to work ,the cookie of your drive account is needed and few details mentioned in INPUTS.json file.

1. cookie - Cookie of google photos account to which you wish to transfer photos
2. clientInfo - Supplied by the google photo web upload to the google server
3. effective_id - Denotes owner of the file on drive - owner_id

This script will Download all images from Google Drive and uploads to Google Photos

Note :
This script can be hosted on Heroku or Openshift (Paas) which would be much faster 
if you have large number of photos or a crappy Internet Connection

Requirements

1. Google Drive API - Enabled for your account
   • Turn on the Drive API : Follow the step one of Google Python Quickstart
2. Python 2.7 or later - This is based on 2.7
3. Git on windows/linux.

Installation

python setup.py install

Usage

Fork and clone a copy of this git repository

Getting the Required info for the first time.

Make Sure you got the DRIVE API Enabled and Downloaded the client_secret.json file to the git repository.

1. Open you Firefox browser and go to page photos.google.com and sign-in to your account
2. Open the Firefox Dev Tools [Right click - Select ->Inspect Elements (or) Press "Q" from Keyboard]
3. Go to the Network tab of Dev Tools
4. Upload a sample image by dragging it over the browser window.
5. In Network tab watch for a POST request "resumable?authuser=0"
6. Follow the Screenshot images

Save changes and update the repository

Finally run the following in (cmd/terminal):

python app.py

7. Obtain the Google Drive OAuth Credentials which will be saved in .credentials folder
8. Upload the updated repository to Openshift for Direct Online transfer

Using Openshift Hosting

• Create a Free account
• Getting Started with OpenShift Online
• Create a New Python App in the web console and during creation provide your git repository url or later Upload the git repository using rhc command line tool

• In the rhc command-line tool type the command

  rhc tail -a YOUR_APP_NAME
  

  to view logs

Credits

Jagadeesan : [email protected]

Bugs and Improvements

Make a Pull request / file an issue.

License

The MIT License (MIT) Copyright (c) 2016 Jagadeesan