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Creating wigglegrams with Google Photos API limitations

Matt Sayar

2h ago· 2 min readen

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The author describes trying to create wigglegrams (stereoscopic animated GIFs) after seeing a post on Hacker News. They attempted to adapt code for Google Photos support using Claude, but encountered Google API limitations where the read-only scope only returns media created by the user's own app (unless the project has a legacy grant). As a workaround, they requested a Google Takeout of their photos (~560GB across multiple zips) to test the script locally.

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Since 2025, Google's readonly scope only returns media your own app created unless your project has the legacy grant, so a personal library may list empty.

I created a Google Takeout request for my photos, and it returned ~560GB worth of 50GB zips.

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I saw a fun post on Hacker News about creating wigglegrams, and decided to try it for myself. Since I live in the Google ecosystem, I had Claude rewrite the code for Google Photos support. However, because of some limitations to the Google API: Since&hell

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