gphotos-uploader-cli mit Homebrew installieren

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• Homepage
• Repository
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• gphotos-uploader-cli

Projektgeschichte

The GitHub README explains the original motivation: Google's own uploader covered macOS and Windows, while this project brought a command-line uploader to Linux and other systems that can compile a Go program.

The changelog records early public packaging work in 2018, concurrent upload support in June 2019, secret backend support, a repository transfer into the GPhotos Uploaders organization, and later major releases adapting to Google Photos API scope and authentication changes.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The project is packaged in Homebrew and documented for macOS and Linux users who want unattended or repeated uploads rather than a desktop sync tool. Its GitHub metadata shows a medium-sized user base for a niche Google Photos automation client, with hundreds of stars and forks.

Adoption is constrained by Google Photos API behavior and OAuth setup. The configuration documentation asks users to create a Google Cloud project, enable the Google Photos Library API, configure OAuth consent, create desktop app credentials, and place client credentials in the HJSON configuration.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users configure `~/.gphotos-uploader-cli/config.hjson` with API app credentials, account email, secret backend choice, and one or more jobs. Jobs identify source folders, album behavior, delete-after-upload behavior, and include or exclude patterns.

The changelog shows the CLI growing around real upload concerns: token refresh, resumable uploads, duplicate album handling, file tracking, album listing, media-item listing, redirect URL configuration, and Google Photos API scope changes.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

The package is interesting because it turns a cloud-photo workflow into a Unix-style batch command. That makes it useful for NAS boxes, photo ingest scripts, headless machines, and users who want a package-managed tool instead of a GUI uploader.

It also demonstrates the maintenance cost of cloud CLIs: OAuth flows, API scopes, quota avoidance, token storage, and upstream API client changes all show up in package history even when the command's user-facing purpose stays simple.

Zeitleiste

• 2018-09-20: 0.1.11 added GoReleaser-based binary publishing after releases.
• 2019-06-18: 0.2.0 added support for five concurrent uploads and introduced the changelog.
• 2019: 0.3.0 added multiple secret backends through keyring support.
• 2019: 0.6.0 recorded the repository transfer to the GPhotos Uploaders organization.
• 2023: 4.0.0 added client cache behavior, album and media-item listing commands, and progress bars.
• 2025-06-05: 5.1.0 adjusted OAuth redirect URL handling for the auth command.

Related projects

• Related projects include the gphotosuploader Google Photos API client for Go, Google Photos Library API tooling, keyring-backed secret storage libraries, GoReleaser, and other backup or upload CLIs.

Quellen

• https://github.com/gphotosuploader/gphotos-uploader-cli
• https://github.com/gphotosuploader/gphotos-uploader-cli/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
• https://github.com/gphotosuploader/gphotos-uploader-cli/blob/main/README.md
• https://github.com/gphotosuploader/gphotos-uploader-cli/blob/main/docs/configuration.md
• https://github.com/gphotosuploader/gphotos-uploader-cli/releases
• https://gphotosuploader.github.io/gphotos-uploader-cli/