Upload Item with Google Photos API

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Getting Started#

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

Configure the Upload Item action
1. Connect your Google Photos account
2. Configure Media Path
3. Configure File Name
4. Configure Description
5. Optional- Select a Album ID
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.

Upload Item on Google Photos

Description:Uploads an item to Google Photos. [See the documentation](https://developers.google.com/photos/library/guides/upload-media)

Version:0.0.1

Key:google_photos-upload-item

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Code#

import app from "../../google_photos.app.mjs";
import utils from "../../common/utils.mjs";
import { ConfigurationError } from "@pipedream/platform";
import mime from "mime-types";
import fs from "fs";

export default {
  key: "google_photos-upload-item",
  version: "0.0.1",
  type: "action",
  name: "Upload Item",
  description: "Uploads an item to Google Photos. [See the documentation](https://developers.google.com/photos/library/guides/upload-media)",
  props: {
    app,
    media: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Media Path",
      description: "The media content to upload, please provide an image file from `/tmp`. To upload a file to `/tmp` folder, please follow the doc [here](https://pipedream.com/docs/code/nodejs/working-with-files/#writing-a-file-to-tmp)",
    },
    filename: {
      type: "string",
      label: "File Name",
      description: "File name attribute.",
    },
    description: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Description",
      description: "Description.",
    },
    albumId: {
      propDefinition: [
        app,
        "albumId",
      ],
      optional: true,
    },
  },
  async run ({ $ }) {
    const filePath = utils.isValidFile(this.media);
    if (!filePath) {
      throw new ConfigurationError("`Media Path` must be a valid file path");
    }
    const fileData = fs.readFileSync(filePath, {
      flag: "r",
    });
    const bytes = new Uint8Array(fileData);
    const uploadToken = await this.app.uploadBytes({
      $,
      headers: {
        "Content-type": "application/octet-stream",
        "X-Goog-Upload-Content-Type": mime.lookup(filePath),
        "X-Goog-Upload-Protocol": "raw",
      },
      data: bytes,
    });
    const resp = await this.app.createItem({
      $,
      data: {
        albumId: this.albumId,
        newMediaItems: [
          {
            description: this.description,
            simpleMediaItem: {
              fileName: this.filename,
              uploadToken,
            },
          },
        ],
      },
    });
    $.export("$summary", "Item has been uploaded 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.
Media Path	`media`	`string`	The media content to upload, please provide an image file from `/tmp`. To upload a file to `/tmp` folder, please follow the doc here
File Name	`filename`	`string`	File name attribute.
Description	`description`	`string`	Description.
Album ID	`albumId`	`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