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by mumblerino 2093 days ago
Unless something changed lately, this is a little deceiving.

If you check your own account, it finds albums and can even download some shared photos.

If you check the same account but using another account's cookies… surprise surprise, "No album" appears.

# Own account

    Name: ---public name----

    Last profile edit : 2019/12/01

    Email : ----------@gmail.com
     Google ID : ------id------

    Hangouts Bot : No

    Activated Google services :
     - Photos
     - Maps

    Google Photos : https://get.google.com/albumarchive/------id------
     => 4 albums, 50 photos

    Searching metadata...
     [+] 1 device found !

    - Apple iPhone 7 (40 pics) [2017/01/1]
     -> 1 Firmware found !
     --> 10.3.0 [2017/01/1]

    Google Maps : https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/------id------/reviews
     => 167 reviews found !

    Probable location (confidence => Okay) :
     - --------, ----------

# Other account

    Name: ---public name----

    Last profile edit : 2019/12/01

    Email : ----------@gmail.com
     Google ID : ------id------

    Hangouts Bot : No

    Activated Google services :
     - Photos
     - Maps

    Google Photos : https://get.google.com/albumarchive/------id------
     => No album

    Google Maps : https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/------id------/reviews
     => No reviews
1 comments

From the readme:

> 02/10/2020 : Since few days ago, Google return a 404 when we try to access someone's Google Photos public albums, we can only access it if we have a link of one of his albums. Either this is a bug and this will be fixed, either it's a protection that we need to find how to bypass. So, currently, the photos & metadata module will always return "No albums" even if there is one.

I hate these date formats. I wish folks would use the iso standard YYYY-MM-DD
Agreed.

However YYYY-MM-DD is symmetric to DD-MM-YYYY ...

Dash positions say otherwise
Yeah, when I read a date and try to make sense of it I try below- but also often not correct:

. == day month year

/ == month day year

- == year month day

I don't understand what you are trying to say. YYYY-MM-DD is the reverse of DD-MM-YYYY and the other way round.
How convenient that this repo was published just a day too late. Now it’s just advertising something that it doesn’t do, either because it never did or because Google fixed it. I think it’s the former.