iCloud Photos Downloader

Daily updates from the iCloud Photos Downloader project. Backup improvements, authentication updates, and new features for managing your photo library.

About this developer podcast

iCloud Photos Downloader turns GitHub activity into short audio updates.

Episodes cover commits, pull requests, issues, and release work.

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If the project is quiet, new episodes may pause until there is useful activity to summarize.

Recent episodes from iCloud Photos Downloader

  1. Weekly Recap - A Quiet Fix With Real-World Impact

    This week's activity centered on a single, focused pull request that corrects behavior when users only want file names printed, without unwanted sidecar files being generated. It's a small but user-facing reliability fix backed by…

  2. Fixing Filename-Only Mode

    A single pull request closes out a reported bug where the "only print filenames" option was still generating XMP sidecar files, tightening up the tool's dry-run style behavior.

  3. Weekly Recap - Resilience for Large Library Scans

    This week's sole update introduces opt-in checkpointing for photo scans, aimed at preventing costly full re-scans after network failures on large libraries. The change is disabled by default and restores progress from a saved position on…

  4. Resumable Scan Checkpoints

    A single pull request introduces opt-in checkpointing for photo scans, letting the downloader resume from a saved offset instead of restarting large library scans after a network failure.

  5. Weekly Recap - Fixing Account Compatibility at the Source

    This week's development focused on a single but consequential fix: how the tool identifies a user's primary Photos library. One pull request addresses accounts where Apple's internal zone naming has shifted, aiming to prevent sync…

  6. Fixing Migrated Library Detection

    A single pull request addresses accounts where Apple has migrated the primary Photos zone to a non-standard name, ensuring the downloader discovers the correct zone instead of assuming a fixed identifier.

  7. Weekly Recap - Bringing Shared Albums Into the Fold

    This week's development centered on one significant feature addition: support for legacy iCloud Shared Albums, letting users target and download from shared album collections using index-based selection.

  8. Shared Albums Return

    A single pull request, number 1356, brings back support for legacy iCloud Shared Albums, adding GUID-based album mapping and a way to target albums by index. The change touches core library and photo-handling code, along with new test…

  9. Weekly Recap - Shared Library Data Management
  10. Shared Library Cleanup Enhancement
  11. Weekly Recap - Download Reliability Improvements
  12. Connection Error Resilience
  13. Weekly Recap - Apple Auth Compatibility & Infrastructure Updates
  14. WebUI 2FA Authentication Fix

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