List Library Contents with Google Photos API

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Getting Started#

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

Configure the List Library Contents action
1. Connect your Google Photos account
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.

List Library Contents on Google Photos

Description:Retrieves library contents [See the documentation](https://developers.google.com/photos/library/guides/list#listing-library-contents)

Version:0.0.1

Key:google_photos-list-library-contents

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Code#

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

export default {
  key: "google_photos-list-library-contents",
  version: "0.0.1",
  type: "action",
  name: "List Library Contents",
  description: "Retrieves library contents [See the documentation](https://developers.google.com/photos/library/guides/list#listing-library-contents)",
  props: {
    app,
  },
  async run ({ $ }) {
    const resourcesStream = utils.getResourcesStream({
      resourceFn: this.app.listMediaItems,
      resourceKey: "mediaItems",
      resourceFnArgs: {
        $,
      },
    });
    const items = [];
    for await (const item of resourcesStream) {
      items.push(item);
    }
    // eslint-disable-next-line multiline-ternary
    $.export("$summary", `${items.length} album${items.length == 1 ? "" : "s"} found.`);
    return items;
  },
};

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.

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