A fix for Google Photos album

[kokbira]

Well, I see Phoca Download cannot manage new Google Photos albums...

So, googling about I found that:

- (1) https://www.publicalbum.org/blog/embedd ... tos-albums

and

- (2) https://ctrlq.org/google/photos/

On both, (1) and (2), user insert link of Google Photos shared album and they return:

- For (1), an embed code for a slideshow;

- For (2), an embed code to the main album picture with a link to the album.

So, there are here three possibilities for Phoca team:

- (a) To fix Phoca Gallery's issue on importing Google Photos Album's photos as items on it. Perhaps it uses some API or simply an URL with parameters to return the list of files there;

- (b) To develop new feature for Phoca Gallery to store only info of Google Photos Album's parameters (user, album, key etc.). So, the items will be accessed outside the component;

- (c) To develop a new component to do as (b).

Of course I am not talking about simply to copy their solution, but that there are possibilities to fix it as we can see on both examples.

[Jan]

Hi, unfortunately, because the API (Google Picasa, Google Plus, Google Photos) change often, it is hard to implement something here . This is why new option in Phoca Gallery was added - to store external images on imgur - you can see demo here:https://www.phoca.cz/phocacart - images at the bottom are stored on imgur.

Anyway you still can display images from Google Photos, but the album must be public. Unfortunately there is no way in Google Photos to make it public anymore so maybe this is should be a question on Google Photos developers

If fact Phoca Gallery runs the (b) way, it just does not store the images on server, it uses only info and the images are stored on Google Photos service. The only one problem is just you cannot access the albums which are not public and you cannot make them public as there is no such way in Google Photos.

Jan