Uploads are showing date of upload as filename.

[mikebilly]

Photos: Photo's names are named like 2023-10-23.jpg which is the day of upload, which is wrong, instead of their original filenames like PXL_20231003_125152999.jpg

Videos: Video's names are named like photos, the date of upload. Some video info is not shown.

[mikebilly]

I've found the fix, the problem is in https://github.com/gphotosuploader/google-photos-api-client-go:

Every X-Goog-Upload-Name must be changed to X-Goog-Upload-File-Name then it can get the correct filename.

For example, in google-photos-api-client-go/uploader/uploader_simple.go, change:

req.Header.Set("X-Goog-Upload-Name", upload.Name)

to:

req.Header.Set("X-Goog-Upload-File-Name", upload.Name)

[mikebilly]

@pacoorozco please take a look at https://github.com/gphotosuploader/google-photos-api-client-go and examine whether changing X-Goog-Upload-Name to X-Goog-Upload-File-Name is compulsory.

[pacoorozco]

Hi @mikebilly

Good catch! Can I ask how you have found this header X-Goog-Upload-Name? Is there any documentation regarding it?

I tried to follow this Google documentation, where It doesn't know anything about the X-Goog-Upload-Name.

Thanks for submitting the bug and the fix 😍

[pacoorozco]

I've found that the PHP library provided by Google use the header X-Goog-Upload-File-Name, even it says that it's not longer recommended.

The Java library is using it too.

[mikebilly]

Hi @mikebilly

Good catch! Can I ask how you have found this header X-Goog-Upload-Name? Is there any documentation regarding it?

I tried to follow this Google documentation, where It doesn't know anything about the X-Goog-Upload-Name.

Thanks for submitting the bug and the fix 😍

@pacoorozco I was reading the tutorial at: https://learndataanalysis.org/upload-media-items-google-photos-api-and-python-part-4/, and I saw that he used headers['X-Goog-Upload-File-Name'] = 'Kuma_The_Corgi.jpg'

image_dir = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), 'Images To Upload')
upload_url = 'https://photoslibrary.googleapis.com/v1/uploads'
token = pickle.load(open('token_photoslibrary_v1.pickle', 'rb'))

headers = {
    'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + token.token,
    'Content-type': 'application/octet-stream',
    'X-Goog-Upload-Protocol': 'raw'
}

image_file = os.path.join(image_dir, 'Kuma.jpg')
headers['X-Goog-Upload-File-Name'] = 'Kuma_The_Corgi.jpg'

img = open(image_file, 'rb').read()
response = requests.post(upload_url, data=img, headers=headers)

request_body  = {
    'newMediaItems': [
        {
            'description': 'Kuma the corgi',
            'simpleMediaItem': {
                'uploadToken': response.content.decode('utf-8')
            }
        }
    ]
}

upload_response = service.mediaItems().batchCreate(body=request_body).execute()

For this, I had to create a fork of gphotos-uploader-cli and google-photos-api-client-go to use the modification, and saw that it worked.