SLslickdork·Oct 24, 2026
I did google take out > immich and it maintained all meta data.
I used https://github.com/simulot/immich-go
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immich-go
An alternative to the immich-CLI command that doesn't depend on nodejs installation. It tries its best for importing google photos takeout archives.
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An alternative to the immich-CLI command that doesn't depend on nodejs installation. It tries its best for importing google photos takeout archives.
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Runs on a Pi4 in a cabinet with a lot of other self hosted stuff. Data is stored on a NAS. Performance on the Pi4 isn't the greatest, but it works without any annoyance. It has…
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15 sourcesThere's plenty of tutorials but you can request a Google Takeout of your photos and then point immich-go at it. I can confirm that this works really well.
https://takeout.google.com/?pli=1
https://github.com/simulot/immich-go
In Noodle Gallery – Self-hosted photo and video manager forked from ImmichI went through the same path as you - I think I even landed up with 14 takeout files as well!
Its a bit of a trial, but quite doable. Its likely that things have improved since I did it about 6 months ago.
*Getting the files from takeout*
I tried downloading the files onto my laptop via a browser, and then copying them over to my NAS, but quickly gave up. The best approach is to download them directly to the NAS. As you pointed out auth/cookies is an issue. There are multiple ways of solving the issue, but for me I found the best way was to use chromes dev console network view to identify the network request for each file, then right click on it and select "Copy cURL". SSH into my nas and use that command to download the file. There is a bit more info on how to do this here:
https://trog.qgl.org/20241001/downloading-a-google-takeout
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*Importing them into immich*
Once I had all my takeout files on the nas, I used immich-go to import them:
https://github.com/simulot/immich-go
This took a bit of tweaking to get the right set of command line args that worked well for what I wanted it to do. I also found immich errored out a few times during the import. Fortunately immich-go can just pick up the import where it left of, so I kept re-running it until everything was imported.
*Cleaning it all up*
If you just want a huge flat dump of your files your probably good. In my case there were various things I wasn't quite happy about. The default handling of stacking edited images with the originals in albums wasn't what I was after. I wanted to replicate sharing of albums with immich users to match what I had in google photos. For all this kind of cleanup work, I found it quite helpful to work with an AI agent. Give it an API key for your server + the url and get it to help you write cleanup scripts.
This is a good usage pattern if you're absolutely married to the file structure you have and/or want to keep using the files where they are.
Not really applicable if what you have is a google takeout dump. Better in that case to import all the photos and let immich handle them moving forward using a tool like https://github.com/simulot/immich-go
In Immich 3.0You can use this tool to get them into Immich, it will parse all the metadata and recreate albums as you have in GPhotos https://github.com/simulot/immich-go
In Immich 3.0Have you tried https://github.com/simulot/immich-go for dealing with the some of the complexity of google takeout? Not sure how much it actually handles, and whether it can be used easily if you're not migrating to immich, but it's what came to mind here. (I'm a new user of immich but never used google photos)
In Want your images back? That'll be $5There is a community-supported CLI program called immich-go that directly supports reading in iCloud and Google takeout archives, as well as local directories. It works great, and has gobs of import options to set up albums and tags.
[ https://github.com/simulot/immich-go ]
In My ridiculously robust photo management system (Immich edition)I'm running Immich on NanoPi R6C (arm64, even lower idle power usage, still plenty fast for running Immich).
I use Cloudflare tunnel to make it available outside the home network. I've set up two DNS names – one for accessing it directly in the local network, and and a second one that goes through the tunnel. The Immich mobile app supports internal/external connection settings – it uses the direct connection when connected to home wifi, and the tunnel when out and about.
For uploading photos taken with a camera I either use immich-go (https://github.com/simulot/immich-go) or upload them through the web UI. There's a "publish to Immich" plugin for Adobe Lightroom which was handy, but I've moved away from using Lightroom.
In Self-hosting my photos with ImmichImmich is really great, easily now my fav self-hosted app. I used the Immich CLI [0] and later Immich-go [1] to get all my photos in. That was a breeze. I set it to use the folders as albums... And now I have a lot of cleaning up to do, but other than with files and folders, I'm really enjoying the process!
A poweruser tip that has helped me a couple of times: Use ZFS (or other snapshotting facilities) to make snapshot before making any changes/updates or doing large imports. It makes the whole thing sort of bullet proof and you can retry if you're not happy with some import flag.
Immich had my old Corei3 server making a lot of noise for a couple of days btw! But, it's really good at facial recognition, not so much on finding dogs or something. But still very cool if you don't have to compromise on features as a self-hoster, I'm really gr
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ateful and will buy the "support package" (which does not add anything afaik... btw later they will come with a way to do seamless, encrypted off-site backups).
[0] https://docs.immich.app/features/command-line-interface/
[1] https://github.com/simulot/immich-go
Immich-go: https://github.com/simulot/immich-go
In Stable v2.0.0 Release of ImmichYou can import your iCloud photos into Immich. Immich itself is agnostic to the photos and mostly just operates on folders of files.
https://github.com/simulot/immich-go
is what I used to import ~300gb of photos from Google Photos to Immich. Not sure how well it works for iCloud.
There is also https://ente.io/ which is a private & secure photo backup app that you don't need to self-host.
In Android users can now use conversational editing in Google PhotosImmich.app, with their import from iCloud CLI command to seed it: https://github.com/simulot/immich-go#from-icloud-sub-command
In Apple Photos app corrupts imagesRuns on a Pi4 in a cabinet with a lot of other self hosted stuff. Data is stored on a NAS. Performance on the Pi4 isn't the greatest, but it works without any annoyance.
It has been hosting my SO's and my photos for a few months, the transition from Google Photos was pretty easy and it is almost a drop in replacement. I love it.
Make sure to checkout https://github.com/simulot/immich-go, it was a great help migrating my Google Takeout to Immich.
In Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video managementI used immich-go to upload photos from Google Photos and it worked great, I'm not sure how well that works with iCloud but it's at least a supported option (...although with a TODO next to it)
https://github.com/simulot/immich-go?tab=readme-ov-file#from...
> Are there PAYG hosted instanes of Immich?
I was really surprised to learn that there aren't right now. It sounds like FUTO, the org behind Immich, is working on something like this but they haven't put out any real details so it's probably far off.
In Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.orgThe way google will nag you when your storage is nearly full is ultra annoying, borderline dark pattern. It will warn you that you might be running out of storage when attaching small PDFs to an email and the like, when you still have hundreds of megabytes available.
I started using Immich just this week and am very impressed by the amount of features built-in and everything just works. It really is a full-on replacement for google photos which is amazing. Even advanced features like face-detection using AI and partner sharing are there.
Shout-out also to immich-go [1] which is a cli tool that allowed me to migrate hundred of gigabytes of photos from a google takeout backup flawlessly.
1: https://github.com/simulot/immich-go
In Self-Hosted 110: Google Photos Replacement [audio]