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Remove Calls to Deprecated Google Photos API Scope and Update Documentation to Explain Deprecation #207
Description
Describe the feature you'd like to request
I tried to migrate my google data to nextcloud and struggled with 403 error messages for photos, like this:
Failed to get number of Google photos: "ServerException|ClientException, message:Client error: GET https:\/\/photoslibrary.googleapis.com\/v1\/albums?pageSize=50 resulted in a `403 Forbidden
Importing data from google drive works fine. So, I checked the API settings, created a new project and oauth2 client, but I could not resolve the issue. I checked further and found a google announcement about upcoming changes in the photos API:
Shared albums and the associated API functions (share, unshare, get, join, leave, and list) will return a 403 PERMISSION_DENIED after March 31, 2025.
See here: https://developers.google.com/photos/support/updates
Even today is not after March 31, 2025, it seems I’m facing this issue right now.
So, for my understanding, importing google photos into nextcloud won’t work anymore at least starting on April.
Describe the solution you'd like
Evaluate if this issue can be solved using the new Google Photos Picker API
Describe alternatives you've considered
Importing photos from a google takeout
Activity
fruedaCode commentedon Apr 23, 2025
I'm having same issue.
Is there any workaround, I can't import photos from google photos.
Thank you
npossamai commentedon Apr 24, 2025
same issue here, are you open to contributions?
marcelklehr commentedon Apr 29, 2025
Hello @unnamed0ne
Thank you for raising this issue and sorry for the delay on my part. The offending code is likely in https://github.com/nextcloud/integration_google/blob/main/lib/Service/GooglePhotosAPIService.php which needs to be updated to use the new picker API. If someone is up for working on a PR I'd be available to review and test it and you can reach out to me if you need help.
DomGarguilo commentedon May 24, 2025
Same issue here. Any idea when this might be fixed?
xfno72 commentedon Jun 3, 2025
Anyone who knows howto solve this? I've got the same issue.
ariaieboy commentedon Jun 8, 2025
using the latest version photos contacts and calendar sync throw errors
only google drive sync works
amgschnappi commentedon Jun 11, 2025
Facing same error.
Carpenter64 commentedon Jun 23, 2025
Hi,
i found this (you probably already knew;))
lukasdotcom commentedon Jul 1, 2025
Hi everyone,
After investigation the new API and discovering how user-unfriendly the new approach was because of the significant manual action for the user and limit of 2000 pictures. It was decided that Google Photos support would be removed in #246. My recommended approach to export Google Photos data would be to use Google Takeout.
StefanSchoof commentedon Jul 1, 2025
Do you have a recommendation, how to import the Takeout Photos into Nextcloud? So the data in the json files of the takeout is not lost.
lukasdotcom commentedon Jul 1, 2025
I sadly don't have any recommendations on how to get the exif data from the json files into the pictures. I know there are tools that have been made to deal with that, but I haven't used any of them myself.
dinvlad commentedon Jul 3, 2025
@StefanSchoof Not for Nextcloud, but I used this tool to upload mine to Immich: https://github.com/simulot/immich-go
elsiehupp commentedon Sep 24, 2025
Even if there isn't a roadmap for re-implementing the now-broken functionality, the fact that the integration throws errors in regular use should be considered a bug.
Therefore, the near-term fix for this bug should be as follows:
So: I am going to reopen this issue, but I am going to rename it to reflect the near-term fix (i.e. deprecating the broken functionality rather than recreating it).
[-]Updates to the Google Photos APIs[/-][+]Remove Calls to Deprecated Google Photos API Scope and Update Documentation to Explain Deprecation[/+]elsiehupp commentedon Sep 24, 2025
Actually it looks like the new Issue scope was fixed with #246.
(I don't know why this pull hasn't propagated to the version in the Nextcloud App store.)
MarcelRobitaille commentedon Sep 26, 2025
@elsiehupp
Maybe it's time for a release. There are some other fixes I'd like too.
By the way, is there a reason there are no GitHub releases anymore? I enabled GitHub notifications for releases, but the last versions didn't have a GitHub release.
elsiehupp commentedon Sep 29, 2025
Looking at the Nextcloud App Store page, it says that this integration was last updated one month ago with version 4.1.0. According to the release notes, Google Photos support was removed with version 4.0.0. Looking more deeply at my own Nextcloud instance, it appears I am using version 3.2.0, and it appears this is because my managed Nextcloud hosting still has me using Nextcloud 29, which only supports up to this version. So it's my hosting provider's fault that I'm using such an old version of the app.
@MarcelRobitaille Nextcloud releases appear to be managed through a GitHub action, as you can see, e.g., here.
lukasdotcom commentedon Oct 1, 2025
@MarcelRobitaille The releases are under nextcloud-releases like @elsiehupp mentioned. I'll be creating a new release when a few open prs are merged.
lukasdotcom commentedon May 1, 2026
Good news to anyone watching this thread. Thanks to @AhsanIsEpic #356 has been merged that implements Google's photo picker api and Google Photos support will be back in the next version.