Amazon Photos API
Amazon Photos API
Table of Contents
* Restrictions * Range Queries * Known File TypesIt is recommended to use this API in a Jupyter Notebook, as the results from most
endpoints
are a DataFrame
which can be neatly displayed and efficiently manipulated with vectorized ops. This becomes
increasingly important if you have "large" amounts of data (e.g. >1 million photos/videos).
Installation
pip install amazon-photos -U
Output Examples
ap.db
| | dateTimeDigitized | id | name | ... | model | apertureValue | focalLength | width | height | size | |--:|:-------------------------|:-----------------------|:------------------|:----|:------------------|:--------------|:------------|------:|-------:|-------:| | 0 | 2019-07-06T18:22:00.000Z | HeMReF-vvJiTTkdPIeWuoP | 1694252973839.png | ... | iPhone XS | 54823/32325 | 17/4 | 3024 | 4032 | 432777 | | 1 | 2023-01-18T09:36:22.000Z | z_HiIvASAKqWmdrkjWiqMZ | 1692626817154.jpg | ... | iPhone XS | 54823/32325 | 17/4 | 3024 | 4032 | 234257 | | 2 | 2022-08-14T14:13:21.000Z | LKXEZbqoVrhrOYBezisGEQ | 1798219686789.jpg | ... | iPhone 11 Pro Max | 54823/32325 | 17/4 | 3024 | 4032 | 423987 | | 3 | 2020-06-28T19:32:30.000Z | EPUeciHtfKkGiYkfUyEuMa | 1593482220567.jpg | ... | iPhone XS | 54823/32325 | 17/4 | 3024 | 4032 | 898957 | | 4 | 2021-07-07T17:12:55.000Z | fdfKzRJbEyoVeGcfCoJgE- | 1592299282720.png | ... | iPhone XR | 54823/32325 | 17/4 | 3024 | 4032 | 432556 | | 5 | 2021-08-18T18:32:41.000Z | crskJSmKPFRhxbpfkivyLm | 1592902159105.png | ... | iPhone XR | 54823/32325 | 17/4 | 3024 | 4032 | 123123 | | 6 | 2023-08-23T19:12:21.000Z | qkBFUlyIdkUwVVSaVWWKEF | 1598138358650.png | ... | iPhone 11 | 54823/32325 | 17/4 | 3024 | 4032 | 437887 | | 7 | 2021-06-19T17:14:13.000Z | TXKMKC-mHvSUrtRfwmtyDe | 1622199863606.jpg | ... | iPhone 12 Pro | 14447/10653 | 21/5 | 1536 | 2048 | 758432 | | 8 | 2023-02-15T22:45:40.000Z | FRDvvjcZdpFWiwrIZfTNHO | 1581874518054.jpg | ... | iPhone 8 Plus | 54823/32325 | 399/100 | 1348 | 2049 | 862883 |
ap.print_tree()
~
โโโ Documents
โโโ Pictures
โ โโโ iPhone
โ โโโ Web
โ โโโ foo
โ โโโ bar
โโโ Videos
โโโ Backup
โโโ LAPTOP-XYZ
โ โโโ Desktop
โโโ DESKTOP-IJK
โโโ Desktop
Setup
[Update] Jan 04 2024: To avoid confusion, setting env vars is no longer supported. One must pass cookies directly as
shown below.
Log in to Amazon Photos and copy the following cookies:
session-idubid*at*
Canada/Europe
where xx is the TLD (top-level domain)
ubid-acbxxat-acbxx
United States
ubid_mainat_main
from amazon_photos import AmazonPhotos
ap = AmazonPhotos( ## US # cookies={ # 'ubid_main': ..., # 'at_main': ..., # 'session-id': ..., # },
## Canada # cookies={ # 'ubid-acbca': ..., # 'at-acbca': ..., # 'session-id': ..., # }
## Italy # cookies={ # 'ubid-acbit': ..., # 'at-acbit': ..., # 'session-id': ..., # } )
Examples
A database named ap.parquet will be created during the initial setup. This is mainly used to reduce upload conflicts
by checking your local file(s) md5 against the database before sending the request.
from amazon_photos import AmazonPhotos
ap = AmazonPhotos( # see cookie examples above cookies={...}, # optionally cache all intermediate JSON responses tmp='tmp', # pandas options dtype_backend='pyarrow', engine='pyarrow', )
get current usage stats
ap.usage()
get entire Amazon Photos library
nodes = ap.query("type:(PHOTOS OR VIDEOS)")
query Amazon Photos library with more filters applied
nodes = ap.query("type:(PHOTOS OR VIDEOS) AND things:(plant AND beach OR moon) AND timeYear:(2023) AND timeMonth:(8) AND timeDay:(14) AND location:(CAN#BC#Vancouver)")
sample first 10 nodes
node_ids = nodes.id[:10]
move a batch of images/videos to the trash bin
ap.trash(node_ids)
get trash bin contents
ap.trashed()
permanently delete a batch of images/videos
ap.delete(node_ids)
restore a batch of images/videos from the trash bin
ap.restore(node_ids)
upload media (preserves local directory structure and copies to Amazon Photos root directory)
ap.upload('path/to/files')
download a batch of images/videos
ap.download(node_ids)
convenience method to get photos only
ap.photos()
convenience method to get videos only
ap.videos()
get all identifiers calculated by Amazon.
ap.aggregations(category="all")
get specific identifiers calculated by Amazon.
ap.aggregations(category="location")
Search
Undocumented API, current endpoints valid Dec 2023.
For valid location and people IDs, see the results from the aggregations() method.
| name | type | description | |:----------------|:-----|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | ContentType | str | "JSON" | | _ | int | 1690059771064 | | asset | str | "ALL""MOBILE""NONE"DESKTOP"
default: "ALL" | | filters | str | "type:(PHOTOS OR VIDEOS) AND things:(plant AND beach OR moon) AND timeYear:(2019) AND timeMonth:(7) AND location:(CAN#BC#Vancouver) AND people:(CyChdySYdfj7DHsjdSHdy)"
default: "type:(PHOTOS OR VIDEOS)" | | groupByForTime | str | "day""month""year" | | limit | int | 200 | | lowResThumbnail | str | "true""false"
default: "true" | | resourceVersion | str | "V2" | | searchContext | str | "customer""all""unknown""family""groups"
default: "customer" | | sort | str | "['contentProperties.contentDate DESC']""['contentProperties.contentDate ASC']""['createdDate DESC']""['createdDate ASC']""['name DESC']""['name ASC']"
default: "['contentProperties.contentDate DESC']" | | tempLink | str | "false""true"
default: "false" | |
Nodes
Docs last updated in 2015
| FieldName | FieldType | Sort Allowed | Notes | |-------------------------------|--------------------------|--------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | isRoot | Boolean | | Only lower case "true" is supported. | | name | String | Yes | This field does an exact match on the name and prefix query. Consider node1{ "name" : "sample" } node2 { "name" : "sample1" } Query filtername:sample will return node1name:sample* will return node1 and node2 | | kind | String | Yes | To search for all the nodes which contains kind as FILE kind:FILE | | modifiedDate | Date (in ISO8601 Format) | Yes | To Search for all the nodes which has modified from time modifiedDate:{"2014-12-31T23:59:59.000Z" TO *] | | createdDate | Date (in ISO8601 Format) | Yes | To Search for all the nodes created on createdDate:2014-12-31T23:59:59.000Z | | labels | String Array | | Only Equality can be tested with arrays.
if labels contains ["name", "test", "sample"].
Label can be searched for name or combination of values.
To get all the labels which contain name and testlabels: (name AND test) | | description | String | | To Search all the nodes for description with value 'test'description:test | | parents | String Array | | Only Equality can be tested with arrays.
if parents contains ["id1", "id2", "id3"].
Parent can be searched for name or combination of values.
To get all the parents which contains id1 and id2parents:id1 AND parents:id2 | | status | String | Yes | For searching nodes with AVAILABLE status.status:AVAILABLE | | contentProperties.size | Long | Yes | | | contentProperties.contentType | String | Yes | If prefix query, only the major content-type (e.g. image, video, etc.) is supported as a prefix. | | contentProperties.md5 | String | | | | contentProperties.contentDate | Date (in ISO8601 Format) | Yes | RangeQueries and equals queries can be used with this field | | contentProperties.extension | String | Yes | |
Restrictions
Max # of Filter Parameters Allowed is 8
| Filter Type | Filters | |:------------|:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Equality | createdDate, description, isRoot, kind, labels, modifiedDate, name, parentIds, status | | Range | contentProperties.contentDate, createdDate, modifiedDate | | Prefix | contentProperties.contentType, name |
Range Queries
| Operation | Syntax | |----------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------| | GreaterThan | {"valueToBeTested" TO *} | | GreaterThan or Equal | ["ValueToBeTested" TO *] | | LessThan | {* TO "ValueToBeTested"} | | LessThan or Equal | {* TO "ValueToBeTested"] | | Between | ["ValueToBeTestedLowerBound" TO "ValueToBeTestedUpperBound"] |
Notes
https://www.amazon.ca/drive/v1/batchLink
- This endpoint is called when downloading a batch of photos/videos in the web interface. It then returns a URL to
Known File Types
| Extension | Category | |-----------|----------| | \.pdf | pdf | | \.doc | doc | | \.docx | doc | | \.docm | doc | | \.dot | doc | | \.dotx | doc | | \.dotm | doc | | \.asd | doc | | \.cnv | doc | | \.mp3 | mp3 | | \.m4a | mp3 | | \.m4b | mp3 | | \.m4p | mp3 | | \.wav | mp3 | | \.aac | mp3 | | \.aif | mp3 | | \.mpa | mp3 | | \.wma | mp3 | | \.flac | mp3 | | \.mid | mp3 | | \.ogg | mp3 | | \.xls | xls | | \.xlm | xls | | \.xll | xls | | \.xlc | xls | | \.xar | xls | | \.xla | xls | | \.xlb | xls | | \.xlsb | xls | | \.xlsm | xls | | \.xlsx | xls | | \.xlt | xls | | \.xltm | xls | | \.xltx | xls | | \.xlw | xls | | \.ppt | ppt | | \.pptx | ppt | | \.ppa | ppt | | \.ppam | ppt | | \.pptm | ppt | | \.pps | ppt | | \.ppsm | ppt | | \.ppsx | ppt | | \.pot | ppt | | \.potm | ppt | | \.potx | ppt | | \.sldm | ppt | | \.sldx | ppt | | \.txt | txt | | \.text | txt | | \.rtf | txt | | \.xml | markup | | \.htm | markup | | \.html | markup | | \.zip | zip | | \.rar | zip | | \.7z | zip | | \.jpg | img | | \.jpeg | img | | \.png | img | | \.bmp | img | | \.gif | img | | \.tif | img | | \.svg | img | | \.mp4 | vid | | \.m4v | vid | | \.qt | vid | | \.mov | vid | | \.mpg | vid | | \.mpeg | vid | | \.3g2 | vid | | \.3gp | vid | | \.flv | vid | | \.f4v | vid | | \.asf | vid | | \.avi | vid | | \.wmv | vid | | \.swf | exe | | \.exe | exe | | \.dll | exe | | \.ax | exe | | \.ocx | exe | | \.rpm | exe |
Custom Image Labeling (Optional)
Categorize your images into folders using computer vision models.
pip install amazon-photos[extras] -U
See the Model List for a list of all available models.
Sample Models
Very Large
eva02basepatch14448.mimin22kftin22k_in1k
Large
eva02largepatch14448.mimm38mftin22k_in1k
Medium
eva02smallpatch14336.mimin22kftin1k
vitbasepatch16clip384.laion2bftin12k_in1k
vitbasepatch16clip384.openaiftin12k_in1k
caformerm36.sailin22kftin1k_384
Small
eva02tinypatch14336.mimin22kftin1k
tinyvit5m224.distin22kftin1k
edgenextsmall.usiin1k
xcittiny12p8384.fbdistin1k
run(
'eva02basepatch14448.mimin22kftin22k_in1k',
path_in='images',
path_out='labeled',
thresh=0.0, # threshold for predictions, 0.9 means you want very confident predictions only
topk=5,
# window of predictions to check if using exclude or restrict, if set to 1, only the top prediction will be checked
exclude=lambda x: re.search('boat|ocean', x, flags=re.I),
# function to exclude classification of these predicted labels
restrict=lambda x: re.search('sand|beach|sunset', x, flags=re.I),
# function to restrict classification to only these predicted labels
dataloader_options={
'batch_size': 4, # adjust
'shuffle': False,
'numworkers': psutil.cpucount(logical=False), # adjust
'pin_memory': True,
},
accumulate=False,
# accumulate results in pathout, if False, everything in pathout will be deleted before running again
device='cuda',
naming_style='name', # use human-readable label names, optionally use the label index or synset
debug=0,
)