pyicloud VS icloud_photos_downloader

How comfortable are you with Python? You could cook something up using the pyicloud library.

Back in Anki, when Anki is loaded we could use a custom addon to load in the db file from icloud, check to see if the cards have been added and add those that have not been added. Then set them as "added" so we can filter them the next time.

I’ve found a python library called pyiCloud that works with some of the iCloud web services, but doesn’t include activating Downtime. I played around with it a bit and tried to guess the screen time / downtime url’s but didn’t have any luck.

Someone has reverse engineered the API and created a python library for using it, but there is a big gap between that and something that's easy for end-users.

A dev could use the find my network, either by; - hooking directly to it (not sure how hard would that be) - using a server which would ping the AirPods location and iPhone location (any type of server would work and you could use pyiCloud to interact with iCloud itself, get the location of both devices and use some fancy euclidian equations to get the distance between both devices to see how far is one from the other

I'm not saying run off and merge a major update into React; You can start much smaller than that. I started by writing small documentation fixes (1, 2, 3), and eventually added new functionality to libraries that I've used in some side projects (1).

Well, I couldn't find any reliable ones. So I decided to make one - Dockerized iCloud Drive. By the way, pyiCloud is awesome! 😎

There are a few ways to interface with apples iCloud reminders, all of which are terrible, however the most promising option I have found is Pyicloud (GitHub) which is a python module that allows your to interface with many applications in your iCloud account, awesome, right?

The ultimate goal here is to display my "reminders" which are tied to my iCloud account, and get those in python so I can display them on an external device in real time. I can see there is the ability to do this or atleast interact with the reminders in some way in : "pyicloud/pyicloud/services/reminders.py /" directory on GitHub, however after trying many different combinations of running the code in that directory in multiple different ways, I'm back to square 1 not really understanding how to utilize this code to return the values I want (or return anything really). Any insight here at all?

> They don't offer an appropriate API to get photos out.

There's this: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/photokit "The framework provides access to photos on the person’s device and in iCloud."

If you want to use undocumented APIs on non-Apple devices directly, there are projects like https://github.com/steilerDev/icloud-photos-sync and https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do... that appear to be able to do this.

If you have iCloud, you can use icloud.com to get all your photos in a zip.

Or you can use scripts like this one : https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do...

I use https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do... running on my NAS to regularly download photos from my wife's iCloud account. The photos are stored in full resolution on iCloud with the EXIF data, unlike Google Photos, so that's nice. The only annoyance is that you need to reauthorize the tool every three months. But it sends you a reminder when the time is coming up.

I keep my photos in iCloud and sync them up to a Synology NAS (using icloudpd) which is backed up to Backblaze B2.

Direct project link https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader

I was able to download 2 x 2TB (4TB) icloud photos accounts using this in 2 days if you are comfortable with the command line https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader There’s no other solution the mac app was very slow and was gonna takes weeks for me but this app downloaded everything in 2 days

A set of PowerShell scripts to download and organize iCloud media. The scripts use the awesome iCloud downloader from https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader to do the actual download. And the organization happens in a specific way…