Google Photo Library Synchronizer

This project uploads local photo library to Google photo-library service.

Configuration

All environment variables used by the service:

# Google cloud configuration
PHOTO_GOOGLE_CREDENTIAL_DIR=/the/path/to/google/credential/directory
PHOTO_GOOGLE_CREDENTIAL_FILE=credentials.json
PHOTO_GOOGLE_USER_ID=google.user.id
PHOTO_GOOGLE_RECEIVER_PORT=61984

# Local library configuration
PHOTO_LIBRARY_PATH=/the/path/to/local/library/root/directory

# Local albums filtering configuration
PHOTO_ALBUMS_FROM_YEAR_FILTER=
PHOTO_ALBUMS_TO_YEAR_FILTER=

# Performance configuration
PHOTO_ALBUMS_CONCURRENCY=5
PHOTO_UPLOAD_CONCURRENCY=3
PHOTO_UPLOAD_BULK_SIZE=10

# Logging
PHOTO_LOG_LEVEL=info

where:

• PHOTO_GOOGLE_CREDENTIAL_DIR - the local directory where Google credentials are stored (mandatory),
• PHOTO_GOOGLE_CREDENTIAL_FILE - the name of the credential JSON file taken from Google (credentials.json by default),
• PHOTO_GOOGLE_USER_ID - the user id used for connection with Google Photo Library (mandatory),
• PHOTO_GOOGLE_RECEIVER_PORT - the local port which is used by Google Photo Library Client (61984 by default),
• PHOTO_LIBRARY_PATH - the local directory with root path containing the image library (mandatory),
• PHOTO_ALBUMS_FROM_YEAR_FILTER - lower filter of the album year (no value by default which disables filtering),
• PHOTO_ALBUMS_TO_YEAR_FILTER - upper filter of the album year (no value by default which disables filtering),
• PHOTO_ALBUMS_CONCURRENCY - number of concurrent threads synchronizing albums (5 by default),
• PHOTO_UPLOAD_CONCURRENCY - number of concurrent threads uploading images (3 by default),
• PHOTO_UPLOAD_BULK_SIZE - number of image bulk size linking to remote album. According to Google specification must be less than 50 (10 by default).
• PHOTO_LOG_LEVEL - the logging level: info, debug, trace. (info by default)

Run as docker container

Go into docker-compose directory and edit .env file with correct PHOTO_GOOGLE_CREDENTIAL_DIR, PHOTO_GOOGLE_USER_ID and PHOTO_LIBRARY_PATH. Then execute:

docker-compose up

Build and run jar

To build the project use maven command:

mvn clean package

To run the project using jar file:

java -DPHOTO_GOOGLE_CREDENTIAL_DIR=/home/my-account/.google/photolibrary \
  -DPHOTO_GOOGLE_USER_ID=my-google-id@google.com \
  -DPHOTO_LIBRARY_PATH=/media/my-library \
  -jar google-photo-synchronizer-0.1.0.jar