Google Photos to Nextcloud

Requires Nextcloud Photos app to be installed, because of albums.

Replace NEXTCLOUD_URL with the following: https://<USER>:<APP_PASSWORD>@nextcloud.example.org/Photos, /Photos can be any path in Nextcloud to import photos to

Optionally, setting a NEXTCLOUD_PREFIX allows nextcloud to be in a sub dir.

# nextcloud url: https://web.hos.st/nextcloud
NEXTCLOUD_PREFIX=nextcloud # no leading or trailing /!

Command Line

Run from command line (in /path/to/Takeout/Google Photos, where photo directories and jsons are residing)

Note: Imagick extension required (with ffmpeg for video exif data)

NEXTCLOUD_URL=<NEXTCLOUD_URL> # e.g. https://user:s3cr3t@cloud.example.com/Photos
NEXTCLOUD_USER=usernamehere # Optional, overwrites user in NEXTCLOUD_URL
NEXTCLOUD_PASSWORD=secret # Optional, overwrites password in NEXTCLOUD_URL

php gp2nc.php

Run with docker

/path/to/Takeout/Google Photos is the path where the general json files (e.g. user-generated-memory-titles.json) of your Takeout reside.

docker build . -t gp2nc
docker run --rm -v "/path/to/Takeout/Google Photos":/photos -e NEXTCLOUD_URL=<NEXTCLOUD_URL> gp2nc

or use pre-built image from GitHub Container Registry (auto-build)

docker run --rm -v "/path/to/Takeout/Google Photos":/photos -e NEXTCLOUD_URL=<NEXTCLOUD_URL> ghcr.io/rikmeijer/googlephotos2nextcloud:latest

Known errors

Disk cache limit is set to 32GiB, files requiring larger cache will exhaust this and result in an error like:

Failed reading metadata: cache resources exhausted

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