awstudio/google-photos-api

Google Photos API using Picasa endpoints. Let You get Albums, Pictures and Videos of Users with the acces token

Google-Photos-API

Inspired by oc-GooglePhotos-plugin and developed by AWStudio, _(*1)

Description

This library provides an interface to access to google photos using Picasa API. The Picasa API is deprecated, you should only use this client if you want to get Album information, if you don't care about it, you should use the Google Drive API to get the photos., _(*2)

Instalation

You can use composer to install it:, _(*3)

composer require awstudio/google-photos-api

Usage

To use the client you will need a Google Access Token. Check it here to know how to get it., _(*4)

<?php

use GooglePhotosApi\Client\GooglePhotosClient;  

[...] 


$googlePhotosClient = new GooglePhotosClient($settings);
$googlePhotosClient->setGoogleAccessToken($googleAccessToken);

$albums = $googlePhotosClient->getAlbumsList();

$photos = [];  

foreach ($albums as $album){
    $albumId = $album->getAlbumId();
    $photos[$albumId] = $googlePhotosClient->getAlbumImages($albumId);
}

Settings

You can adjust some settings of the client either using the constructor or with the method setSettings. The settings are an array that has as key the value that you want to override and as value the modification., _(*5)

For more info check Picasa API, _(*6)

Google Access Token

We don't provide a way to get the Google Access Token. Please check the official documentation for that or use a third party library that provides OAuth2 authentification. Right now we use HWIOAuthBundle for our Symfony projects. The scope of the OAuth that you need to set for this client is https://picasaweb.google.com/data/, _(*7)