icloud-shared-album-to-flickr

This tool syncs photos from an iCloud Shared Album to Flickr.

Apple does not provide an API for iCloud Shared Albums (that I know of).

I reverse engineered the iCloud Shared Album Public Website FE code and used it simulate browser requests to the private iCloud APIs and extract the URLs of the photos. For each photo, I determine the largest file stored (by filesize) and upload this to Flickr as a photo visible to friends and family. It also adds the photo to a specified album.

It maintains a local cache of the photos that it has successfully uploaded to Flickr and will skip those photos on subsequent runs.

It is expected that this will be called from a cronjob.

Usage

npm install

Copy config/default.json5 to config/local.json5 and fill in your Flickr credentials, iCloud Album Token, and Flickr album ID.

You can use flickr-oauth-dance to quickly generate Flickr credentials.

If your Public Website URL is

https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B0z5qAGN1JIFd3y
                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Then your iCloud Album Token is B0z5qAGN1JIFd3y.

Then simply run:

node app

If you need to clear the local cache:

rm -rf ./photosdb