gotohp

Unofficial Google Photos Desktop GUI Client

• Unlimited uploads (can be disabled)
• Drag-and-drop file upload interface
• Credential management
• Real-time upload progress tracking
• Configurable upload threads
• Individual files or directories uploads, with optional recursive scanning
• Skips files already present in your account
• CLI mode
• Configurable, persistent upload settings (stored in "%system config path%/gotohp/gotohp.config")
  You can force local config by creating empty gotohp.config next to executable.

Download

CLI usage

Download the gotohp-cli release artifact for your platform. It runs without the GUI.

gotohp-cli upload /path/to/photos --recursive --threads 5
gotohp-cli creds add "<oauth_token cookie value>"   # Embedded Setup sign-in, see below
gotohp-cli creds add "androidId=..."                 # or a raw credential string
gotohp-cli creds add - < token.txt                   # or read either from stdin
gotohp-cli creds set user@gmail.com

The CLI shares the config file with the GUI, but reads only the stored credentials from it. Everything else (proxy, quality, upload behaviour) is set by flags, so a scripted run is unaffected by preferences changed in the GUI. Pass --config <path> to use a different config file and --account <email> to upload with a specific stored account.

Run gotohp-cli help or gotohp-cli upload --help for all commands and options.

The GUI binary runs the same CLI when given a command, e.g. gotohp upload ....

Sign in

Option 1 - Embedded setup

1. Open gotohp and click Add Google account.
2. Click Open Google sign-in and sign in with the account you want to add.
3. Sign in on the Google Embedded Setup page and click I agree. The page may keep loading forever; this is expected.
4. Open the browser developer tools. Under Application or Storage, open Cookies for accounts.google.com.
5. Copy only the value of the oauth_token cookie and paste it into gotohp.
6. Click Connect account.

From the CLI, open the same page yourself and run gotohp-cli creds add "<oauth_token value>".

Option 2 - ReVanced. No root required

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1. Install Google Photos ReVanced on your android device/emulator.

   • Install GmsCore https://github.com/ReVanced/GmsCore/releases
   • Install patched apk https://github.com/RookieEnough/Morphe-AutoBuilds/releases or patch it yourself

2. Connect the device to your PC via ADB.

3. Open the terminal on your PC and execute

   Windows

   adb logcat | FINDSTR "auth%2Fphotos.native"
   

   Linux/Mac

   adb logcat | grep "auth%2Fphotos.native"
   

4. If you are already using ReVanced - remove Google Account from GmsCore.

5. Open Google Photos ReVanced on your device and log into your account.

6. One or more identical GmsCore logs should appear in the terminal.

7. Copy text from androidId= to the end of the line from any log.

8. That's it! 🎉

Option 3 - Official apk. Root required

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1. Get a rooted android device or an emulator.

2. Connect the device to your PC via ADB.

3. Install HTTP Toolkit

4. In HTTP Toolkit, select Intercept - Android Device via ADB. Filter traffic with

   contains(https://www.googleapis.com/auth/photos.native)
   

   Or if you have an older version of Google Photos, try

   contains(www.googleapis.com%2Fauth%2Fplus.photos.readwrite)
   

5. Open Google Photos app and login with your account.

6. A single request should appear.
   Copy request body as text.

7. Add that credential string in gotohp.

8. If gotohp asks for a token binding key, keep the rooted device connected and click Read from ADB. gotohp will read the account's lstBindingKeyAlias from Android AccountManager and save it into the credential.

Troubleshooting

• No Auth Request Intercepted
  1. Log out of your Google account.
  2. Log in again.
  3. Try Android App via Frida interception method in HTTP Toolkit.
• Token binding key not found
  1. Make sure the same Google account is present on the connected device.
  2. Make sure root is available to ADB.

Build

Follow official wails3 guide https://v3.wails.io/getting-started/installation/