Hey all, I am trying to import bulk (600GB) of my icloud photos into immich, Looks like there is easy way of doing it and the import from icloud is on the roadmap. I am planning to write a tooling for this bulk import, I have some documents and examples to share so I am starting a discussion here.
#Importing iCloud photos export into Immich
heavy reef
tropic ridge
Do you have any proposal in mind already?
My thoughts for the feature is as follow: we have a flow to trigger the ingestion from the server, probably from User Settings > Import section, which can help with authenticate with iCloud to allow us query the albums that the user wants to import. Then all of the download/hash/ will happen from the server.
The server will then send those data to the mobile app so the mobile app knows that those assets are now on the server and it doesn't have to upload again
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heavy reef
@tropic ridge I was thinking of writing a utility for the immich-cli that can extract metadata and upload pictures from the icloud export zip files
Although User Settings > Import is super convenient, the technical implementation might be very complicated. I am happy to investigate, but I am not sure if apple exposes an API to query the albums/photos
It took me a lot of time to download my own icloud photos (over 1500GiB) , and I am working a script to upload this data
forest herald
Anything special missing from immich-go, that makes you write a custom script?
heavy reef
I just discovered immich-go, thanks. I don't need to write a script now