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The AI pulled all his photos out of the cloud into his own archive

The AI made a PHP script that used the Google Photos API to pull all his photos to his archive location; the extraction is done.

How it works

  1. The AI makes a script that uses the photos API
  2. Pulls all his photos to his archive location
  3. The extraction is done

Why it’s worth knowing

Owning the archive is the point; the script is a Saturday.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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