[Feature Idea] Any way to search for all photos "Shared by a Google user"?

[jindalshreyansh]

My library consist of photos that I saved from various shared album and partner account. Now, I have filtered photos not owned by me using gptk, can I futher filter them by ownership of specific person?

[xob0t]

theoretically possible, but would require sending a request to get each file's info, so it would be slow

and be vary of the ownership filter, it produces inconsistent results

[jindalshreyansh]

Ownership filter worked fine for me, it separated all files not owned by me in a separate album. Could you guide what request to send in order to get photos owned by specific people.

[xob0t]

It would not be possible to just get all media owned by "x", the only way is to scan the library, then for each media item send a request to get that info, and filter based on it.

[xob0t]

@jindalshreyansh
@leocrawford

Here is a little POC script to find and delete "shared by x" items.
Goes over the whole library one item at a time.
If item's sharedByUserName matches sharedByName, moves the item to trash.
Paste it to your browser's console.
Reload the page to stop the script.

let nextPageId = null;
const ownerName = 'John';
do {
  const page = await gptkApi.getItemsByUploadedDate(nextPageId);
  for (const item of page.items){
    if (item.isOwned) continue
    const itemInfo = await gptkApi.getItemInfo(item.mediaKey);
    if (itemInfo.owner.name == ownerName){
      await gptkApi.moveItemsToTrash([itemInfo.dedupKey]);
      console.log('item moved to trash', itemInfo);
    }
  }
  nextPageId = page.nextPageId;
} while (nextPageId);
console.log("DONE")

04.07.24 - updated the script to work with the latest version of gptk

[leocrawford]

Thank you so much. That's really helpful. In the end I archived by date uploaded, restored those taken by my partners phone, and deleted those in archive - but this would have been much better, and is what I'll use next time (if there is a next time).

I'm also rebuilding my own library from scratch, using my own API key (rather than rclones) so I can share albums, rather than rely on partner sharing. SO much learnt. Your tool has been an invaluable part of fixing my own mistakes, so thank you.