Immich to cloud exporter

Script to export immich data as a structured folder. Useful if you want to browse your albums etc when immich is broken.

To-do

• Create folders like "Misc {{year}}" for photos that are not in albums
• Move (or rename?) photos that are deleted in Immich but exist on the local disk
• Dockerize the tool so it's easy to run on the server
• Stretch: Preserve metadata (e.g. file creation times)
• Stretch: directly sync to Proton Drive (skipping the local filesystem)

Usage

Docker

You can build and run this tool using Docker:

# Build the Docker image
docker build -t immich-to-cloud-exporter .

# Run the container
docker run -it --rm \
  -e IMMICH_HOST=http://your-immich-server:2283/api \
  -e IMMICH_API_KEY=your_api_key \
  -v /path/to/local/export:/app/export \
  immich-to-cloud-exporter

To run with the dry-run flag:

docker run --rm \
  -e IMMICH_HOST=http://your-immich-server:2283/api \
  -e IMMICH_API_KEY=your_api_key \
  -v /path/to/local/export:/app/export \
  immich-to-cloud-exporter --dry-run

Development

Generate OpenAPI spec

rm -rf generated/immich
docker run --rm \
  -u $UID:$UID \
  -v ${PWD}:/local openapitools/openapi-generator-cli generate \
  -i https://github.com/immich-app/immich/raw/refs/heads/main/open-api/immich-openapi-specs.json \
  -g python \
  --skip-operation-example \
  --additional-properties generateSourceCodeOnly=true,packageName="generated.immich.openapi_client" \
  -o /local/