Create and populate albums on Immich based on folder name

immich_auto_album.py

import requests
import os
from collections import defaultdict

# I have photos in subfolders like : 
# /mnt/media/Photos/2023-08 Holidays
# /mnt/media/Photos/2023-06 Birthday
# /mnt/media/Photos/2022-12 Christmas
# This script will create 3 albums
# 2023-08 Holidays, 2023-06 Birthday, 2022-12 Christmas
# And populate them with the photos inside
# The script can be run multiple times to update, new albums will be created,
# or new photos added in existing subfolder will be added to corresponding album 

# Personnalize here 
root_path = '/mnt/media/Photos/'
root_url = 'http://127.0.0.1:2283/api/'
api_key = 'Your-api-key-here'



requests_kwargs = {
    'headers' : {
        'x-api-key': api_key,
        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
        'Accept': 'application/json'
    }
}
if root_path[-1] != '/':
    root_path = root_path + '/'
if root_url[-1] != '/':
    root_url = root_url + '/'


print("  1. Requesting all assets")
r = requests.get(root_url+'asset', **requests_kwargs)
assert r.status_code == 200
assets = r.json()
print(len(assets), "photos found")



print("  2. Sorting assets to corresponding albums using folder name")
album_to_assets = defaultdict(list)
for asset in assets:
    asset_path = asset['originalPath']
    if root_path not in asset_path:
        continue
    album_name = asset_path.replace(root_path, '').split('/')[0]
    album_to_assets[album_name].append(asset['id'])

album_to_assets = {k:v for k, v in sorted(album_to_assets.items(), key=(lambda item: item[0]))}

print(len(album_to_assets), "albums identified")
print(list(album_to_assets.keys()))
print("Press Enter to continue, Ctrl+C to abort")
input()


album_to_id = {}

print("  3. Listing existing albums on immich")
r = requests.get(root_url+'album', **requests_kwargs)
assert r.status_code == 200
albums = r.json()
album_to_id = {album['albumName']:album['id'] for album in albums }
print(len(albums), "existing albums identified")


print("  4. Creating albums if needed")
cpt = 0
for album in album_to_assets:
    if album in album_to_id:
        continue
    data = {
        'albumName': album,
        'description': album
    }
    r = requests.post(root_url+'album', json=data, **requests_kwargs)
    assert r.status_code in [200, 201]
    album_to_id[album] = r.json()['id']
    print(album, 'album added!')
    cpt += 1
print(cpt, "albums created")


print("  5. Adding assets to albums")
# Note: immich manage duplicates without problem, 
# so we can each time ad all assets to same album, no photo will be duplicated 
for album, assets in album_to_assets.items():
    id = album_to_id[album]
    data = {'ids':assets}
    r = requests.put(root_url+f'album/{id}/assets', json=data, **requests_kwargs)
    assert r.status_code in [200, 201]
    response = r.json()

    cpt = 0
    for res in response:
        if not res['success']:
            if  res['error'] != 'duplicate':
                print("Warning, error in adding an asset to an album:", res['error'])
        else:
            cpt += 1
    if cpt > 0:
        print(f"{str(cpt).zfill(3)} new assets added to {album}")

print("Done!")

Uhm, why does it only get 1000 Pictures?
Is the API Limited to 1000 accesses? using v1.95.1 and docker. Running script on the host.

root@NAS:/volume3/SSD# python3 immichpy.py
  1. Requesting all assets
1000 photos found
  2. Sorting assets to corresponding albums using folder name
2 albums identified
['Schottland 2019.06', 'Sri Lanka 2019.08']
Press Enter to continue, Ctrl+C to abort

  3. Listing existing albums on immich
0 existing albums identified
  4. Creating albums if needed
Schottland 2019.06 album added!
Sri Lanka 2019.08 album added!
2 albums created
  5. Adding assets to albums
634 new assets added to Schottland 2019.06
366 new assets added to Sri Lanka 2019.08
Done!

I haven't had a chance to update to v1.95.x yet, but I think it's very possible some kind of pagination mechanism was introduced to the assets API endpoint that is used to request all the image from Immich.
I'll take a closer look when I performed my upgrade and have had a closer look at what's going on.

Alright, new script revision is in, compatible with the API changes introduced in v1.95.x, but also backwards compatible.
I forked this Gist for maintenance. My modified version is available here https://gist.github.com/Salvoxia/1a0074a7c7e8817e1e2ac5a4bf8af66c