Import a Google Takeout tar file into Immich

This tool updates the EXIF data from your images and uploads the resulting images to Immich directly without having to extract and use external tools to modify them.

Please export your Google Photos images using Google Takeout. Select tar files (not zip).

Download all the files

After downloading the files, they will be .tgz files (ie. compressed with gzip). To make this tool faster, please un-gzip the tars first. Don't worry, the overall size will be basically the same, as we are talking about images here, so they didn't really get compressed anyway.

gunzip -k *.tgz

Explanation: The metadata .json files in the archives are not always in the same place as the photo/video. To avoid having to

Run this tool with the API information, and pass it all the tar files as arguments.

python main.py --api-key XXX --api-url https://xxx/ *.tar