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yablak 38 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself ...

A tool for backing up Google photos more incrementally than Google takeout:

https://github.com/ebrevdo/gphoto-pull

A version of the IFTTT linter that I missed after leaving Google:

https://github.com/ebrevdo/ifttt-lint

s3graham 38 days ago [–]

gphoto-pull!! I've been downloading NN x 50G zips every two months like a caveman. Assuming I'm backing up in "Original", this manages to retrieve byte-identical backups?

yablak 33 days ago | [–]

Yup. Uses browser automation to download originals (well, whatever storage setting you used)

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