Download media also from Shared albums

[jesusfernandezdiaz]

Summary

Add ability to download photos and videos from Shared Albums

Context

Shared albums are used frequently between family members, as a repository for photos where everyone can contribute.

Right now, with icloudpd, you can download all the photos/videos that you took, but photos other put in a shared album can not be downloaded.

I would be great to be able to download a copy of these photos like any other album.

[Faxe-Riegel]

Would be great to have this option

[AndreyNikiforov]

--list-libraries and --library params work with shared libs. Is that what you are looking for?

[boredazfcuk]

Shared albums are different to shared libraries, I believe. When I click on Albums in the Photos app, there are Personal and Shared albums. Personal Albums are the ones shown with --list-albums (and the meta albums, like Screenshots). Shared albums do not appear in this list.

[iowk]

I think we only have the ability to access what can be seen on https://www.icloud.com/photos/ from web browser.

Shared albums are present in Photos app but not web browser, so it's probably not possible to access them via icloudpd.

[boredazfcuk]

I think we only have the ability to access what can be seen on https://www.icloud.com/photos/ from web browser.

This is correct.

Shared albums are present in Photos app but not web browser, so it's probably not possible to access them via icloudpd.

I didn't check for their availability in the browser, because I expected them just to be regular photo albums, but with additional metadata to define the sharing aspect.

If this isn't the case, and they're not accessible from icloud.com, then this is a non-starter.