According to google API documentation mediaItems.search Method, album and filter function cannot be applied at the same time. Here is the link of the documentation:
https://developers.google.com/photos/library/reference/rest/v1/mediaItems/search

I searched through Google Api documentations pages and was not able to find any other provided method can do this task. If you know please let me know.

To solve this, I read through an article and it mentions that, to list the contents of an album, get the album contents id, and then apply a filter e.g Selfie and get the list of photo ids from user's library, and then check if those selfie photos are in the give album by comparing ids. Is this a good idea to go or it sounds too complicated ?

Any advise?

FYI. I realize the filter function is not that accurate. if I apply exclude photos contain me and people, and it still give me a few photos contain me people from my library.

Please review code on gphoto-api-start.py and give some advise

Hi Jordan,
I configured my google photo api at API console and the application type is web application.
pretty much followed this link to setup and post the screenshots in the repo too.
https://developers.google.com/photos/library/guides/get-started#request-id
http://localhost:8888 is my local host in Jupyter Notebook
And I downloaded the client_secret.json file and kind of figure out this beginning script which are saved both at "gphoto-api-start.ipynb" and "gphoto-api-start.py"
Somehow I got this trace back below and could not figure out why it is happening :(

Do you mind give me some clue on how to solve this?

usage: ipykernel_launcher.py [--auth_host_name AUTH_HOST_NAME]
[--noauth_local_webserver]
[--auth_host_port [AUTH_HOST_PORT [AUTH_HOST_PORT ...]]]
[--logging_level {DEBUG,INFO,WARNING,ERROR,CRITICAL}]
ipykernel_launcher.py: error: unrecognized arguments: -f C:\Users\BREEZE'S NOTEBOOK\AppData\Roaming\jupyter\runtime\kernel-526b7ffa-00ce-4002-8c52-7023e19ed76a.json
An exception has occurred, use %tb to see the full traceback.

SystemExit: 2