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Hi,

Your code is using the OAtuh 2.0 to get the permissions to use Google Photos API. The gphotos-uploader-cli does exactly the same, so maybe you can use the client-id and the client-secret from above to configure the gphotos-uploader-cli. This is true if you have created a project were the CLI is able to use the Google Photos API.

My best suggestion is to follow the Getting started documentation.

Let me know if there's a problem when using these credentials.

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I can use the above code: get_authenticated_service(client_secret_file) to create the credentials json file from a client secret json file. But how to make gphotos-uploader-cli get the token from that created credentials json file, i.e /content/drive/MyDrive/gphotos-uploader/credentials/1/credentials_for_1.json, instead of asking the user to go to a local host link which doesn't work on Google Colab.

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Currently, gphotos-uploader-cli doesn't offer a way to use external credentials (like the one you're using).

I can't imagine how to re-use the credentials of another program to authenticate gphotos-uploader-cli.

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Not of another problem, that function is specifically used to get the token for gphotos-uploader-cli, because I want to try to make it get the token without going to localhost link. Got the credentials, now just need gphotos-uploader-cli to get the token from it.

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@pacoorozco could you help me with this?, could you please try gphotos-uploader-cli on Google Colab, I'm sure there's a demand to upload medias from Google Drive to Google Photos through Google Colab.

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Hi @mikebilly

AFAIK Google Colab is a python environment to set up Notebooks and run python scripts. I've never used it, so I don't know how it should work in order to run a go CLI, like gphotos-uploader-cli.

If you were able to mount the Google Drive to a folder, then you can use gphotos-uploader-cli to upload the content of the folder.

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@pacoorozco it's a headless environment, which means doing authentication is very challenging as it can't access localhost. Still looking for a way to make gphotos-uploader-cli use the pre-created credentials to retrieve the token or find other ways to get the token without needing localhost.

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I understand the complexity of running this script in a headless environment. In fact, this script was never thought to be run in a headless setup, because the authentication is not easy to be implemented.

In Google Colab they are taking advantage of the fact that their service is in the Google scope 😅

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