Any attempt to parse shared_album_comments.json in Google Takeout?

[linuxturtle]

Google shared albums have the ability to add comments to a photo, or to the album itself. This data is shown in a side panel called "Activity", along with thumbnails of the photos. It also shows up as a little "comment" icon on each photo which has a comment, with a number indicating how many comments the photo has. This data appears to be exported in a single file at the top of the archive called "shared_album_comments.json". Has there been any thought or discussion about parsing this file? I can't find it here or in Issues, if there has been. I'm fairly new to immich as well, so I'm not really sure if there's even any way to represent it in immich, but it's a cool feature in Google Photos, so if there is, it'd be really cool to preserve the data on import.

[simulot]

I don't know about those files.

At the moment Immich-go can use Album's location, description and texts found in the metadata.json located in the album folder.

[linuxturtle]

I've never written anything in go, so the likelihood of me being able to provide a PR is low, but upon some further investigation, it looks like Immich has a 1-1 mapping of this functionality on shared albums. It would seem that the API is the Activity API, where createActivity takes similar arguments as are in the shared_album_comments.json file, except I have no clue how to map the contentUrl field in the file onto albumID in the API. But it looks like creationTime maps directly onto createdAt, and text maps directly to comment.

Does immich-go maintain some kind of mapping between google's contentUrl for an album, and the immich API albumId? If so, it would seem pretty easy to parse this file as a post-process sort of thing.

[linuxturtle]

Oh, wait, it looks like all the comments are duplicated in the album's metadata.json file under sharedAlbumComments, so the shared_album_comments.json file is redundant. I guess immich-go just doesn't know about them? Would sample data be helpful?

[simulot]

Yes indeed. Let's see what we can get

[linuxturtle]

Ugh, on further investigation, it looks like only some of the comments are in the metadata.json file. Many of the album owner's comments are only in the shared_album_comments.json file, so it's not redundant after all. Oh Google... Anyway, I opened a feature request #434 to track this issue easier. Thank you.