If you ever want to move from Google Photos to other platform/solution, your fastest choice to export all photos is Google Takeout
But when you download it, you will find yourself with hundreds of little folders with few photos and weird .json files inside.
What if you want to just have one folder with all photos, in chronological order? Good luck coping all of that 😕
This script does just that - it organizes and cleans up your Takeout for you 👍
It will take all of your photos from those tiny folders, set their exif and last modified, and other properties correctly, and put it in one big folder (or folders divided by a month)
- If you have new "year folders" (that is, few folders named like "Photos from 2012") (+albums) - use the newest
version
pip install -U google-photos-takeout-helper
- If you have old "date folders" (that is, ton of folders named like "2012-06-23") - use version
1.2.0pip install -U google-photos-takeout-helper==1.2.0
I don't know if new version fully works, so let me know if it doesn't 👍
- Get all your photos in Google Takeout (select only Google Photos)
pip install -U google-photos-takeout-helper- Extract all contents from your Google Takeout to one folder
- Run
google-photos-takeout-helper -i [INPUT TAKEOUT FOLDER] -o [OUTPUT FOLDER]
If you want your photos to be divided by a year and month, run it with --divide-to-dates flag.
This script is written in Python - but if you have Windows, and don't want to bother installing it, you can download a standalone .exe 🎉
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Go to releases->latest release->assets and download
takeout-helper.exe -
Prepare your Takeout:
If your Takeout was divided into multiple .zips, you will need to extract them, and move their contents into one
folder
- Open cmd, and type:
cd C:\Folder\Where\You\Downloaded\takeout-helper
takeout-helper.exe -i [C:\INPUT\TAKEOUT\FOLDER] -o [C:\OUTPUT\FOLDER]// Ps note: Don't use the "[ ]" in the command above.
If you have issues/questions, you can hit me up either by Reddit, Twitter Email: google-photos-takeout-gh@niceyyyboyyy.anonaddy.com, or if you think your issue is common: Issues tab
If I helped you, you can consider donating me: https://www.paypal.me/TheLastGimbus
I spent a lot of time fixing bugs and making standalone .exe file for Windows users 💖 - would be super thankful for any donations
You can also send me some Bitcoin: 3GezcSsZ6TWw1ug9Q8rK44y9goWa3vTmbk, DOGE: DTKFGSzPCDxZPQQtCTyUHbpRYy6n8fSpco, or Monero: 43HorPVy1PTGVph3Qh3b6vVSfW2p3fH4ChjtiLVdLZw4Kw1vZUgCCcZSmfGCeEFq6bdeuF7zMutAcAcuuYFf8vEr6htBWTk
Beware, that (99% of the times), if you move some files in Android, their creation and modification time is re-seted to current.
"Simple Gallery" app usually keeps original file creation time when moving and coping (but I don't guarantee it). It's also pretty cool and you can check it out:
https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/Simple-Gallery
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I really recommend you using Syncthing for syncing your photos and files across devices. It does so through your local WiFi, so you're not dependend on any service or internet connection. It will also keep original file creation date and metadata, so it resolves Android issue that I mentioned before.
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If you want something more centralized but also self-hosted, Nextcloud is a nice choice, but it's approach to photos is still not perfect. (And you need to set up your own server)
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Guys at Photoprism are working on full Google Photos alternative, with search and AI tagging etc, but it's stil work in progress. (I will edit this when they are done, but can't promise :P )
I used this tool to export my notes to markdown - you can then edit them with any markdown editor you like :)
https://github.com/vHanda/google-keep-exporter
This one saves them in format ready for Evernote/ClintaNotes:
https://github.com/HardFork/KeepToText
- Videos' Exif data
- Gps data: from JSON to Exif - Thank you @DalenW 💖
- Some way to handle albums - THANK YOU @bitsondatadev 😘 🎉 💃
- Windoza standalone
.exefile - Thank you, me 😘