Add Items To Album with Google Photos API

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Getting Started#

Create a workflow to Add Items To Album with the Google Photos API. When you configure and deploy the workflow, it will run on Pipedream's servers 24x7 for free.

Configure the Add Items To Album action
1. Connect your Google Photos account
2. Select a Album ID
3. Select one or more Media Item IDs
Select a trigger to run your workflow on HTTP requests, schedules or app events
Deploy the workflow
Send a test event to validate your setup
Turn on the trigger

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Details#

This is a pre-built, source-available component from Pipedream's GitHub repo. The component is developed by Pipedream and the community, and verified and maintained by Pipedream.

To contribute an update to an existing component or create a new component, create a PR on GitHub. If you're new to Pipedream component development, you can start with quickstarts for trigger span and action development, and then review the component API reference.

Add Items To Album on Google Photos

Description:Adds selected items to the selected album. [See the documentation](https://developers.google.com/photos/library/guides/manage-albums#adding-items-to-album)

Version:0.0.1

Key:google_photos-add-items-to-album

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Code#

import app from "../../google_photos.app.mjs";

export default {
  key: "google_photos-add-items-to-album",
  version: "0.0.1",
  type: "action",
  name: "Add Items To Album",
  description: "Adds selected items to the selected album. [See the documentation](https://developers.google.com/photos/library/guides/manage-albums#adding-items-to-album)",
  props: {
    app,
    albumId: {
      propDefinition: [
        app,
        "albumId",
      ],
    },
    mediaItemIds: {
      propDefinition: [
        app,
        "mediaItemId",
      ],
      type: "string[]",
      label: "Media Item IDs",
      description: "Media Item IDs",
    },
  },
  async run ({ $ }) {
    const resp = await this.app.addItemsToAlbum({
      $,
      albumId: this.albumId,
      data: {
        mediaItemIds: this.mediaItemIds,
      },
    });
    $.export("$summary", "Items has been added to the album successfully.");
    return resp;
  },
};

Configuration#

This component may be configured based on the props defined in the component code. Pipedream automatically prompts for input values in the UI and CLI.

Label	Prop	Type	Description
Google Photos	`app`	`app`	This component uses the Google Photos app.
Album ID	`albumId`	`string`	Select a value from the drop down menu.
Media Item IDs	`mediaItemIds`	`string[]`	Select a value from the drop down menu.

Authentication#

Google Photos uses OAuth authentication. When you connect your Google Photos account, Pipedream will open a popup window where you can sign into Google Photos and grant Pipedream permission to connect to your account. Pipedream securely stores and automatically refreshes the OAuth tokens so you can easily authenticate any Google Photos API.

Pipedream requests the following authorization scopes when you connect your account:

emailprofilehttps://www.googleapis.com/auth/photoslibrary.readonly.appcreateddatahttps://www.googleapis.com/auth/photoslibrary.edit.appcreateddatahttps://www.googleapis.com/auth/photoslibraryhttps://www.googleapis.com/auth/photoslibrary.appendonlyhttps://www.googleapis.com/auth/photoslibrary.sharinghttps://www.googleapis.com/auth/photoslibrary.readonly