Photo API

Google Workspace Developers Q&A
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Is there any progress on reintroducing a feature similar to the photoslibrary API? Our enterprise use case involves pulling the entire user library with minimal end-user intervention.

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Nope, zero progress. The Photos team very simply doesn’t care. At all. See https://www.googlecloudcommunity.com/gc/Workspace-Q-A/Google-Photos-quota-and-having-it-both-ways/m-p/469738, which I wrote nearly 3 years ago and is still unaddressed.

The only viable solution is to not allow users to use Photos with Workspace accounts, and to find a different solution.

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I am trying to access google library from a python script.
It is in test mode, and I added a confidential scope: https://www.googleapis.com/auth/photoslibrary.readonly
In the credentials I get this scope, so, I should be able to get the information of my google photos.
But, when I try a GET on https://photoslibrary.googleapis.com/v1/mediaItems I receive:

{
  "error": {
    "code": 403,
    "message": "Request had insufficient authentication scopes.",
    "status": "PERMISSION_DENIED"
  }
}

I don’t want to publish this app, because it is only to access my google photos library and get some metadatas…

Am I doing something wrong?