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icloud-photos-downloader / icloud_photos_downloader

A command-line tool to download photos from iCloud
MIT License
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Support for new iCloud sharing links #121

Open aacook opened 5 years ago

aacook commented 5 years ago

Recently Apple added new iCloud sharing links, essentially breaking MMS. I'm not entirely sure when this happened but I think it was in the past couple months. Previously, when a user selected multiple photos they would be sent in a group MMS. The receiving user would receive multiple images through the cell carrier. A downside to this approach is each carrier handles images differently. Some of the budget carriers downsize the images so far that they're no longer usable.

Recently Apple changed this for iCloud users. When a user is using iCloud and they share more than 1 image, Apple creates a shared iCloud album and texts a link to it, plus the first image from the album. The album itself is public and the receiving user doesn't need iCloud to view and download a zip to the images.

Can this library handle downloading these kinds of albums? For example: https://www.icloud.com/photos/#0i8eO1va2PS_kZp0nKlJ3CG3A

jshjulian commented 4 years ago

I am having the same issue, is there support for these public shared iCloud links?

podviaznikov commented 2 years ago

Also curious about this.