Building an e-ink picture frame that displays an iCloud photo album

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  • calendav

    Interact with CalDAV via Ruby

  • Yep, just switch the calendar to "public" and you can just use it with any CalDav client or icalendar libraries like https://github.com/pat/calendav. Nothing hacky about that, just a standard.

  • icloud-photos-sync

    One-way sync engine for the iCloud Photos Library into the native file system

  • > 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.

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  • icloud_photos_downloader

    A command-line tool to download photos from iCloud

  • > 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.

  • > 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.

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