Suggestion: save photo ID

[leoccyao]

I installed this plugin expecting some kind of MarkdownPostProcessor based implementation for displaying photos, and was both gladly surprised and impressed by the simple embed-based format. Though linking to the original photo on Google Photos through the productUrl provides a persistent user-accessible connection to the original photo, there is currently no way to programmatically get the original photo again, as the id is not saved.

This feature request suggests also saving the id of the photo somewhere in the embed syntax. This would enable:

• Regenerating thumbnail images by getting a new baseUrl, for example if a higher resolution is requested or the image changes
  • This could also work towards implementing #6 , by exposing a command to embed a new baseUrl or by adding an event listener that regenerates expired baseUrls on note open
• Building other custom integrations, such as a publishing integration that uses full-resolution versions of photos in the note.

Just saving the photo ID inline is a reasonably simple change, but the embed format can be up to discussion.

The current embed format: [![](link to thumbnail)](productUrl) Possibilities:

• Use the (currently empty) alt text field
• Add a new inline comment containing the ID
• In either of those locations, creating a more nuanced structure to hold arbitrary metadata (such as a greater portion of the mediaItem response as JSON)

I personally do not have a preference, as long as the image preview does not become significantly cluttered.

[alangrainger]

Saving the photo ID will be added as part of request #7 - being able to customise the inserted Markdown.

[alangrainger]

baseUrl and id are now available as variables to use in your own customised Markdown, in v1.1.3.

https://github.com/alangrainger/obsidian-google-photos/releases/tag/1.1.13

For anything additional not covered in this release (e.g. regenerating thumbnails), please submit a pull request.