How would one upload around 50k images and videos into iCloud Photos from a Linux machine?

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  • icloud_photos_downloader

    A command-line tool to download photos from iCloud

  • Sadly, it seems that there is no reasonable way to upload that amount of data one time into my iCloud. I can only find ways to mass download iCloud photos to my machine, e.g. with this

  • pyicloud

    A Python + iCloud wrapper to access iPhone and Calendar data.

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

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • icloud-for-linux

    Access all of your favourite iCloud apps from Linux

  • I tried icloud-for-linux, and it works for small amounts of data, but it does not scale at all.

  • icloud-drive-fs

    Mirror of https://gitlab.fancy.org.uk/samuel/icloud-drive-fs - Mount iCloud Drive as a local filesystem

  • warpinator

    Share files across the LAN

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