Grab photo information from a Google Photos Album URL (Not maintained)

photos_google_album.py

"""
Tool to grab list of photo information (URLs/etc) of
images in Google Photos album.
Adapted from Matthieu Bessat
https://github.com/lefuturiste/google-photos-album-crawler/blob/f33026d379058912c597d5802296b55b62ed27a4/src/Crawler.php
"""
import json
import re
import sys
from http.client import HTTPResponse
from typing import Optional
from urllib import request

ALBUM_URL = "https://photos.app.goo.gl/7drjX2h4nWoLUsgE9"

# Get HTML from Album URL
response: Optional[HTTPResponse] = None
try:
    response = request.urlopen(ALBUM_URL)
except Exception:
    print("Unable to obtain response from Google Photos")

if response is None:
    sys.exit(-1)

# Parse out the relevant data JSON from the HTML
rexp = r'<script nonce=".+">AF_initDataCallback\(\{.+, data:(.+), sideChannel:.+\);<\/script>'
match = re.search(rexp, str(response.read()))

if len(match.groups()) != 1:
    print("Unable to identify data dictionary from server response")
    sys.exit(-1)

# Parse JSON data dictionary
jsonResponse: Optional[list] = None
try:
   jsonResponse = json.loads(match.group(1))
except Exception:
    print("Unable to parse JSON response from server")
    sys.exit(-1)

if len(jsonResponse) < 1:
    print("Unexpected JSON response from server")
    sys.exit(-1)


# Obtain photo information
jsonResult =  [
    {
        'id': image[0],
        'url': image[1][0],
        'width': image[1][1],
        'height': image[1][2]
    } 
    for image in jsonResponse[1]
]

print(json.dumps(jsonResult))