{"id":2865,"date":"2018-06-07T21:57:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T12:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2018-06-07\/2865"},"modified":"2018-06-07T21:57:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T12:57:30","slug":"announcing-my-upload-to-google-photos-plugin-for-lightroom-prepare-to-be-disappointed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2018-06-07\/2865","title":{"rendered":"Announcing my Upload-to-Google-Photos Plugin for Lightroom: Prepare to be Disappointed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n

Six years<\/i> after Google unveiled their “<\/span>Google +”<\/span> social network with photo hosting, with heavy emphasis on\nphotographers, and a couple<\/span> of years after Google shut down Picasa Web Albums, the sort-of-backdoor way\nto upload photos to Google, Google has finally<\/i> released a photo<\/span>-upload API, so that I can<\/span> make\n a Google<\/span> Photos plugin\nfor Adobe Lightroom<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Sort of.<\/p>\n\n

What Google allows at this point is extremely<\/i> limited, and I don't<\/span> hold much hope that it'll expand.<\/p>\n\n

As of today's initial release, the plugin can:<\/p>\n\n

  1. create an album in Google Photos<\/li>\n
  2. upload photos and video to such albums.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n

    That's it. Nothing more. The plugin can't upload to existing albums or any album not made by the plugin.<\/p>\n\n

    The plugin can't delete or update photos, even ones it uploaded in the first place, so we can't make a\npublish<\/span> service.<\/p>\n\n

    From the employee-developer interaction I've seen so far, I don't<\/span> hold much hope for this API.<\/p>\n\n

    More information, and updates as they happen, on the plugin's home page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Six years after Google unveiled their \"Google +\" social network with photo hosting, with heavy emphasis on photographers, and a couple of years after Google shut down Picasa Web Albums, the sort-of-backdoor way to upload photos to Google, Google has finally released a photo-upload API, so that I can make a Google Photos plugin for Adobe Lightroom.<\/p>

    Sort of.<\/p>

    What Google allows at this point is extremely limited, and I don't hold much hope that it'll expand.<\/p>

    As of today's initial release, the plugin can:<\/p> create an album in Google Photos upload photos and video to such albums.

    That's it. [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}