Google Photos Albums

[csaffi]

Hi there,
it's not possible to display Google Photos Albums now with Phoca Gallery, because it requires Album ID, which is not present on the new Google Photos interface. Is there any solution?

Thanks

[Jan]

Hi, for now there is support for Google Picasa and Google+ photos, I will take a look for changing the code for support of Google Photos in some next version.

Jan

[ondrej.klucka.mk]

Ahoj Honzo,

google oznámil konec pro Google Picasa. Můžete ukončit podporu prosím pro Picasa a integrovat jinou službu? Abychom věděli, kam máme svoje alba migrovat. Rozhodně nebudu využívat Google Fotky. Napadá mě Flickr, Instagram, Zonerama. Nechej udělat třeba anketu a podle toho se rozhodni. Můj osobní tip bude je Zonerama, protože má desktop klient.

Díky za odpověď

Ondřej

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Hi Jan,

Google announced the end to Google Picasa. You can exit please support for Picasa and integrate different service? We know where we have our album migrate. I will definitely use Google Photos. I can think of Flickr, Instagram, Zonerama. Let needed to do a survey and accordingly decide. My personal tip is the Zonerama because it has a desktop client.

Thanks for the reply

Ondrej

[Jan]

Hi, unfortunately, because Google Photos is the continuer of Google+ and Picasa, I cannot skip supporting it. So if e.g. images will be moved from Picasa to Google Photos and it will be possible to connect to Google Photos and manage the images the same way, and it will be possible to change the code for managing it, I will take a look at it. Maybe there will be not the way to import images from Google Photos, so maybe other service needs to be added.

Supporting external services like it is in Phoca Gallery (Picasa, Google +, Facebook) is really very very complicated work as the APIs are changing often and the services are sometimes not more supported, etc.

Thank you for the tips, I will take a look at them.

[Jan]

Anyway, not sure if I understand it correctly:

"Important: Beginning May 1st, 2016, we’ll start rolling out changes to the Picasa Web Albums Data API and no longer support the following functionality:
Flash support
Community search
Mutation operations other than uploads
All support for tags, comments, and contacts
The API will still support other functions, including reading photos, reading albums, reading photos in albums, and uploading new photos. Although these operations will continue to be supported and the protocol will remain the same, the content included in the responses and the operation behavior may change. We'll update the documentation on this site with specifics on the changes in March. Read other important Picasa updates here."

But seems like the API will work

Yes, by newly created albums there is no ID, so I will do more researches to see, if Google Photos can be implemented similar way like Picasa

[Jan]

For now, the only way I found is:

Go to Google Photos - create new Album and upload the images there.

Then go to https://picasaweb.google.com and make the created album public.

Such can be accessed then by Phoca Gallery.

[Elividon]

To make sure I don't misunderstand... Are there any future plans to integrate Google Photos in Phoca Gallery? I just read an article that Picasa will be no more after March 15 this year. So that's in about 3 weeks. Thanks for all your hard work Jan! I can imagine it's complicated with API's and all.

[Jan]

Hi, in fact this should be a question on Google Photos developers.

For now, you can "work" with Google Photos per Picasa/Google+ API - This API will be not removed (only some functions limited)

So for now everything works OK, you can import images from Google Photos per this API and everything seems to work, except one thing. When you create album in Google Photos, such is not public and you can make it public only in Picasa for now:

1) it is a little bit complicated way to import images
2) we don't know if this will be possible in the future

So, I by myself want to make support for Google Photos but as other developers, we are still waiting if there will be API for this and if the import function will be not limited in the future.

So for now images from Google Photos can be used like the images from Picasa or Google+ but what happen in future I cannot divine.

If there will be some other way, yes it will take some time - you need to learn e.g. new API, you need to do a lot of tests and then you can make code for implementing it in the component (and this takes a lot of time as mostly you search many many different way how to go through all possible limitations) and unfortunately you cannot prepare it now as there is no information about how it will look in future.

Jan

[macrosite55]

Hi, in fact this should be a question on Google Photos developers.

For now, you can "work" with Google Photos per Picasa/Google+ API - This API will be not removed (only some functions limited)

So for now everything works OK, you can import images from Google Photos per this API and everything seems to work, except one thing. When you create album in Google Photos, such is not public and you can make it public only in Picasa for now:

1) it is a little bit complicated way to import images
2) we don't know if this will be possible in the future

So, I by myself want to make support for Google Photos but it seems like it would be a waste because they already mentioned it there, and more discrimination than necessary to make that happen, and as the site said about wrongful termination and illegal firing people, they are looking at it. This is the one that said it. The developers, we are still waiting if there will be API for this and if the import function will be not limited in the future.

So for now images from Google Photos can be used like the images from Picasa or Google+ but what happen in future I cannot divine.

If there will be some other way, yes it will take some time - you need to learn e.g. new API, you need to do a lot of tests and then you can make code for implementing it in the component (and this takes a lot of time as mostly you search many many different way how to go through all possible limitations) and unfortunately you cannot prepare it now as there is no information about how it will look in future. :-( :idea:

so that's the way it has been posted.

Jan

Hi, been having the same issues too and this workaround is great. Do hope that more info would come so we all can have a better resolution to this. Any updates on this yet? :)

[Jan]

Hi, no updates yet.

For now we can still use Picasa/Google+ API for displaying the images from Google Photos, so still two main questions:

- will be able to use them in the future?
- If yes, will be great, then we miss only one main feature - to make the Google Photos album public.

There are a lot of users who sent a feedback to Google, so we'll see what happens

For now I get no news regarding this.

Jan