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This extension just provides google-photos-uploader: Upload image and replace command.

The command will do all the step shown below:

  1. extract img path from your markdown text
  2. upload to Google Photos
  3. replace img path to Google Photos published url

Keep in mind that this plugin will publish all images the target markdown file referencing to all over the world.

select_upload

Technical Information(Ja)

See google-photos-uploader の製作背景と技術的解説

How to install

In extension tab on vscode, search google photos and you can find Google Photos Uploader(unofficial). Click install.

How to use

Run command

Open command palet(Ctrl+Shift+P), find google-photos-uploader: Upload image and replace command and execute.

run command

(OAuth)

This plugin sometimes request you OAuth2 Authentication.

In this case, default browser will be started.

  1. Select Google acount and login
    oauth2_select_account
  2. Authorize these parmissions.
    oauth2_scope_check_1
    oauth2_scope_check_1
  3. Authorize these parmissions again!(I don't know why authorize phase are duplicated)
    oauth2_scope_check_3
  4. Sucess! Go back to vscode.
    oauth2_success

Select Album

Because of Google Photos API limitation, albums you can add photos must be created by this plugin.

So, you have 3 choices to upload images.

  1. I don't want to add photos to albums: not tested
  2. create a new album
  3. select album already created by this plugin

select album

When you chose create a new album, you need to specify the new album name.

create album

Please wait for seconds

On this phase, this plugin executes below:

  1. extract image path
  2. upload image (depend on the total image size and your traffic speed, showing progress info)
  3. register images to the album
  4. get published image URL
  5. replace image path to the URL

uploading

select_upload

finish

Known Issues

Image count per album limitation

Currently, do not make the situation that over 500 images in the album which you specified.

yumetodo/google-photos-album-image-url-fetch#3