Immich bridge to google photos shared albums
from anytimesoon@piefed.social to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 28 Jun 16:15
https://piefed.social/c/selfhosted/p/2172370/immich-bridge-to-google-photos-shared-albums
from anytimesoon@piefed.social to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 28 Jun 16:15
https://piefed.social/c/selfhosted/p/2172370/immich-bridge-to-google-photos-shared-albums
Does anyone know if it’s possible to achieve this? Possibly with an external service that syncs the two?
Basically, the last feature immich can’t do that google does is to share albums. Sometimes my family wants to have albums after events, and my ones live in a silo.
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Isn’t this ‘sharing an album’?
It is but it requires public internet access to the Immich instance, or everyone involved being on our VPN. Reusing someone else’s publicly facing service to share photos from a private Immich instance is a clever workaround.
Afaik immich is generally safe to publicly expose. Otherwise, I’d just use http basic auth. Supported by every server and client, should be secure enough to hold off attacks in case immich’s login/auth mechanisms fail, and I don’t see a usecase where this wouldn’t work.
If you don’t have a public IP or need IPv4, get a 4€/Month VPS (cheaper than even a Pi’s energy usage I suppose) and put headscale on it.
Using a reverse proxy / ingress, you can configure only share links to be publicly available, while keeping the rest of immich exclusive to your private-network. Optionally combine with something like Cloudflare Tunnel if you’re worried about leaking your server’s IP.
IMHO you should look/ask for such a feature in a google group because big g may have a business case for such a feature: it would pull back in those users who try to escape.
and that should not be an immich feature but a google one.
as a self-hoster I prefer to have control on my data; a solution to feed my data to google through a third party (that may do whatever it wants while performing the transfer) is the exact opposite of what i’m trying to achieve and would have little to no value for me.
Coud probably be done. Find publicly shared Immich albums -> sync to Google Photos -> share publicly -> write the public Google Photos URL to the metadata of the Immich album.
Another could be an insulated public facing Immich instance that gets publicly shared albums pushed to it, the same way as with the other scheme. No reverse access to the private Immich instance. Then if that gets hacked, only those photos leak, attacker can’t get their hands on other server data. Assuming it’s really well isolated. A public VPS would probably be best for this.
Why would you think you can’t share albums? You definitely can.
only if immich is publicly accessible (reverse proxy to domain, etc.). If it’s on a closed network like tailscale, albums aren’t accessible from outside the network afaik
If you plan to make a diy solution, you might’ve seen one or two CLIs for uploading to Google Photos. Just FYI, you can also leverage rclone to create Google Photos albums and uploads photos/videos there.
You can share Immich albums.
There is also this: github.com/alangrainger/immich-public-proxy
I think your immich gallery can even be private ( though the public proxy would need to be able access it ).
I have no experience with it though.