I accidentally uploaded the same set of pictures into one album in Picasa (Google Photo, actually), and I know there is a API for Picasa. As a engineer, I want to use code to delete those duplicated pictures, instead of by manual. Besides, I feel this could become a good 'homework' project.
However, Picasa API will change on May 1st, 2016: after that day, the API will become 'readonly', which means one can only query the data, but not change it. So, anyone seeing this repository probably can not use it for his/her own. Yeah, I know, it is sad. The Google Photo has its API, but at this moment, I can not find the one to delete pictures or change albums.
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Go to https://console.developers.google.com to create a new project, save the credentials into
project_credentials.json:{ "client_id": "YOUR_PROJECT_ID_HERE", "client_secret": "YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET_HERE", "scope": "https://picasaweb.google.com/data/", "redirect_uri": "http://localhost:3000/getToken" }
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npm install && npm start -
Set your browser to
http://localhost:3000/ -
You should know what to do now.
- The album id is hard-coded, just lame.
- Move to Heroku as a service!? Interesting, but probably not worthy.
- Using xmldom to parse XML is easy, but it feels quite slow
with 900-ish
<entry>s.
In fact, the initial motivation was using ConvNet.js to do something interesting: to help me classify some game screenshots into one album, saving me some more effort. This goal probably will never happen, given that this is a leisure time homework-level project.