Google photos API got nuked – plugin is dead

Since April 2025 Google removed public API access of the photos library entirely. The “Photos Library API” can now only access photos that were created through the API, which is completely useless, and there is no replacement other than using a plugin based on web-scraping a shared album link. Or you can reverse-engineer the private API of the official Google app or website, but who has time for that?

Another step-up in evilness for Google (they can go and choke on a c*ck), and 3 stars for the effort to make the only API-based plugin for this. Back to scraping it is – at least it costs Google more money in traffic and webhosting.