google-photos-api-python-quickstart Scope photoslibrary.readonly will be removed from the Library API after March 31, 2025 - Google Photos Picker API should be used instead.

According to the announcement of Google Posted September 2024, the scope photoslibrary.readonly will be removed from the Library API after March 31, 2025. Google says: "If your app needs users to select photos or albums from their entire library, use the new Google Photos Picker API." So, if I understood correctly, after March 2025, google-photos-api-python-quickstart won't work anymore. Did anybody successfully implement it yet using the Google Photos Picker API? Thanks Wilfried

Sep 21 '24 11:09 WilfriedBl

Hi @WilfriedBl, I saw the announcement - I'm not sure yet how to use the new APIs. I'll update as soon as I'll be able.

Sep 22 '24 20:09 ido-ran

Thanks for the quick response @ido-ran . I tried a quick and dirty way to call the picker API but with no success so far and getting a "googleapiclient.errors.HttpError: <HttpError 403 when requesting https://photospicker.googleapis.com/v1/sessions?alt=json returned "Request had insufficient authentication scopes." Crossing my fingers.

Sep 22 '24 20:09 WilfriedBl

I've created https://github.com/ido-ran/google-photos-picker-api-quickstart with example of using Picker API

Sep 28 '24 21:09 ido-ran

Thanks a lot for you work and notification, @ido-ran . I will see, if I get it to work.

Sep 29 '24 05:09 WilfriedBl