Tutorial Video Google Photos using a shared page: https://youtu.be/Iw0K__AHsnQ
If you want to show a Google Photos album on your site, this is the way with the least setup. There is no API project and no credentials involved, only a shared link.
- open Google Photos, share an album and copy the link to it
- add a new Event to Event Gallery and use this sharing link.
- add the mandatory fields and save the Events.
- Event Gallery will now pull that page and get the links to the images from your shared page.
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For the free version there is a limit of 30 visible photos per album in the front end. Event Gallery Extended allows up to 150 photos per album. This is a hard limit set by the Google pages. They simply don’t reveal more than 150. |
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Note 1 There are some limitations to this approach. Only the URL of the image and the width/height are available as metadata. No EXIF, no filenames. |
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Note 2 Event Gallery parses the Shared Page and Google can do changes anytime and break this approach. Google can change the way they render the shared pages any time, so this approach is not as stable as a documented API would be. But the past showed that even with an API trouble is possible. I’ve been playing this cat&mice game for more than 10 years, so be aware of this. |
The link is updated every 24h automatically. If you changed the content of that shared link, it will be reflected later on your site. If you need to force reloading the content of the shared page, use the cache-clear button on the overview page of Event Gallery and delete the cache for Google Photos - Shared Pages.