Synophotos - Synology Photos Command Line Interface

Synophotos Command Line Interface (CLI) is an attempt to enable remote control of certain functions in Synology Photos from a terminal.

Features

• connect to a Synology Photos instance and run various commands remotely
• list and count albums, folders and images
• list users and groups
• create albums and populate albums from existing items
• share and unshare albums

Quickstart

Use pip to create and activate a virtual environment and install synophotos:

> mkdir synophotos
> pip -m venv synophotos
> source synophotos/bin/activate
> pip install synophotos

Initialize the application:

> synophotos init
A sample configuration file has been created in "$USER_CONFIG/synophotos/"

Edit the file config.yaml found in $USER_CONFIG/synophotos/ and insert your server URL and credentials.

Run synophotos to check what albums you have:

> synophotos albums

  id │ name          │ item_count │ owner_user_id │ shared
╶────┼───────────────┼────────────┼───────────────┼────────╴
  2  │ 'My Birthday' │ 31         │ 2             │ True
  1  │ 'Private'     │ 10         │ 2             │ False

Installation, Getting Started and Command Reference

The complete documentation is hosted at readthedocs.io: http://synophotos.readthedocs.io/.

Related Projects

• Synology API Wrapper (https://github.com/N4S4/synology-api)
• Unofficial Synology Photos API Documentation (https://github.com/zeichensatz/SynologyPhotosAPI)