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mtalcott / google-photos-deduper

Locally run web app and Chrome extension to remove duplicates from Google Photos
MIT License
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Ability to limit the library scan by date #19

Open siburny opened 11 months ago

siburny commented 11 months ago

Currently, it tries to download ALL photos from my Google Photos library. But having more than 100K images it's easy to go over the API quota. There should be either an option to specify how far back I want the app to scan my library (e.g. last 3 years) OR two date fields to specify start and end date for the scan.

mtalcott commented 11 months ago

Good idea. I'd consider that one of the filtering options that would be helfpul alongside some others mentioned over on https://github.com/mtalcott/google-photos-deduper/issues/7.

Unfortunately, the Google Photos API is fairly limited and does not include a field for when media items were added to the library. It does include a creationTime within the metadata, but that comes from the image metadata and uploaded. So the filtering by date wouldn't really work as people would expect.