amazon-photos 0.0.25

Amazon Photos API

Amazon Photos API

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Setup
• Query Syntax
• Examples

Installation

pip install amazon-photos

Setup

These environment variables must be set. Log in to Amazon Photos and copy the cookies:

• *ubid-acbxx
• *at-acbxx
• session-id

*replace xx with your country code

E.g. for amazon.ca, you would add to your ~/.bashrc:

export session_id="..."
export ubid_acbca="..."
export at_acbca="..."

Query Syntax

For valid location and people IDs, see the results from the aggregations() method.

Example query:

drive/v1/search

type:(PHOTOS OR VIDEOS)
AND things:(plant AND beach OR moon)
AND timeYear:(2019)
AND timeMonth:(7)
AND timeDay:(1)
AND location:(CAN#BC#Vancouver)
AND people:(CyChdySYdfj7DHsjdSHdy)

/drive/v1/nodes

kind:(FILE* OR FOLDER*)
AND contentProperties.contentType:(image* OR video*)
AND status:(AVAILABLE*)
AND settings.hidden:false
AND favorite:(true)

Examples

from pathlib import Path
from amazon_photos import AmazonPhotos

# e.g. using amazon.ca
ap = AmazonPhotos(tld="ca")

# get entire Amazon Photos library. (default save to `ap.parquet`)
nodes = ap.query("type:(PHOTOS OR VIDEOS)")

# query Amazon Photos library with more filters applied. (default save to `ap.parquet`)
nodes = ap.query("type:(PHOTOS OR VIDEOS) AND things:(plant AND beach OR moon) AND timeYear:(2023) AND timeMonth:(8) AND timeDay:(14) AND location:(CAN#BC#Vancouver)")

# sample first 10 nodes
node_ids = nodes.id[:10]

# move a batch of images/videos to the trash bin
ap.trash(node_ids)

# restore a batch of images/videos from the trash bin
ap.restore(node_ids)

# upload a batch of images/videos
files = Path('path/to/files').iterdir()
ap.upload(files)

# download a batch of images/videos
ap.download(node_ids)

# permanently delete a batch of images/videos.
ap.delete(node_ids)

# convenience method to get all photos
ap.photos()

# convenience method to get all videos
ap.videos()

# get current usage stats
ap.usage()

# get all identifiers calculated by Amazon.
ap.aggregations(category="all")

# get specific identifiers calculated by Amazon.
ap.aggregations(category="location")

# get trash bin contents
ap.trashed()

Common Paramters

name	type	description
ContentType	str	"JSON"
_	int	1690059771064
asset	str	"ALL" "MOBILE" "NONE "DESKTOP" default: "ALL"
filters	str	"type:(PHOTOS OR VIDEOS) AND things:(plant AND beach OR moon) AND timeYear:(2019) AND timeMonth:(7) AND location:(CAN#BC#Vancouver) AND people:(CyChdySYdfj7DHsjdSHdy)" default: "type:(PHOTOS OR VIDEOS)"
groupByForTime	str	"day" "month" "year"
limit	int	200
lowResThumbnail	str	"true" "false" default: "true"
resourceVersion	str	"V2"
searchContext	str	"customer" "all" "unknown" "family" "groups" default: "customer"
sort	str	"['contentProperties.contentDate DESC']" "['contentProperties.contentDate ASC']" "['createdDate DESC']" "['createdDate ASC']" "['name DESC']" "['name ASC']" default: "['contentProperties.contentDate DESC']"
tempLink	str	"false" "true" default: "false"

Notes

https://www.amazon.ca/drive/v1/batchLink

• This endpoint is called when downloading a batch of photos/videos in the web interface. It then returns a URL to download a zip file, then makes a request to that url to download the content. When making a request to download data for 1200 nodes (max batch size), it turns out to be much slower (~2.5 minutes) than asynchronously downloading 1200 photos/videos individually (~1 minute).