Google-Photos-API

Inspired by oc-GooglePhotos-plugin and developed by AWStudio

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.

Instalation

You can use composer to install it:

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.

<?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.

Setting	Type	Default	Description
kind	String (album / photo / comment / tag / user)	album
visibility	String (all / private / public / visible)	all
thumb_size	int	200	Size of the thumbnails that will be generated
crop_mode	String (h / w / s)	s
should_crop	bool	false
max-results	int	null	Max results to show by petition.
start-index	int	null	Combine with max-result to apply pagination
ignored_albums	array	[]	albums that want to be ignored, by title or ID
ignore_videos	bool	true	Set to false to get the videos on the response.
ignore_image_types	array	[]	Set the images types that want to be ignored f.i : ['image/gif', 'image/jpg']

For more info check Picasa API

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/