Feature request: the ability to edit album name and media items metadata, like description, title, and position within the album using API (or deleting them) [111405623]

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Feature Request

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Description

to...@gmail.com

created issue #1

Jul 13, 2018 10:54AM

A short description of the request: Allow editing of album title and media items metadata via the API (or deleting them).

This basic functionality is required for apps that allow the user to maintain their photo library.

Amateurs and pros in photography keep, update and orginize their photo collections locally using programs like Lightroom. Those programs are the center of their photographic world. These users want to mirror their local photo collections to a remote service like Google Photos, but such mirroring requires the ability to keep albums and photos in sync with local store.

The feature request

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/109759781 asks about removing photos, this request could also be done via adding an ability to remove album and mediaitems, so the new corrected albums and mediaitems could be re-added.

Thanks.

Comments

dr...@gmail.com <dr...@gmail.com> #2Aug 31, 2018 10:47AM

Thank you for your detailed report!

We'll take a closer look and let you know if we have any updates.

de...@gmail.com <de...@gmail.com> #3Nov 22, 2018 03:25PM

We have just clarified the resumable upload protocol in our documentation here:

https://developers.google.com/photos/library/guides/resumable-uploads

Note that this is slightly different from our previous protocol for resumable uploads. Please let us know if you are still having trouble following this new guide. Our apologies, but the general flow should be very similar to the previous definition.

jf...@google.com <jf...@google.com> #4Jul 8, 2020 06:22AM

Marked as fixed, reassigned to jf...@google.com.

Thanks for the updated documentation. I've given it a go and resumable uploads now seem to be working fine. Thanks.

ro...@ronsc.de <ro...@ronsc.de> #5Jul 9, 2020 06:33PM

Many thanks for the feature. I have uploaded 80,000 photos via the API the last few years. Now I can change all my caption to these photos via some python scripts.

In principle the PATCH-Request of mediaItems works fine for me.

BUT: Most of my images was uploades via the old picasa API. For these photos i got this error:

{ u'error': { u'code': 400,
u'message': u'Invalid media item ID.',
u'status': u'INVALID_ARGUMENT'}}

Why only photos uploaded via the "new API" can modifyed?

Next point - Update Quotas. After less than 100 PATCH-requests i got a Quota exceeded.

"code": 429,\n "message": "Quota exceeded for quota metric \'Write requests\' and limit \'Write requests per minute per user\' of service \'

photoslibrary.googleapis.com\' for consumer \'project_number:861XXXXXXX\'.",\n

How is the limit for write operations specified? How can i increase this limit?

regards
Ronald

jf...@google.com <jf...@google.com> #6Jul 16, 2020 04:23AM

BUT: Most of my images was uploades via the old picasa API. For these photos i got this error:

Unfortunately, this feature only supports media items that were uploaded from your application via the Google Photos Library API (and not via the old Picasa API).

Next point - Update Quotas. After less than 100 PATCH-requests i got a Quota exceeded.

It looks like you are making these requests too quickly. Please follow our best practices about retrying failed requests and exponential back-off and consider introducing a delay between your calls to the API. Please also see our general guidance on limits and quotas, in particular:

In addition to these limits there are other quotas that exist to protect the reliability and integrity of our systems. If you receive a 429 error, you've likely hit one of these quotas. If you receive one of these errors, reduce the number of requests you are making over a given time period.

Issue 111405623