Google Photos Audit

Google Photos Audit inspects the rendered Google Photos page for the one signal Google never shipped in an API — whether an item takes up space in your account storage — and queues the ones that do. It audited ~30,000 photos in my library and flagged ~12,000 consuming quota, now a work queue for offloading back through my Pixel 3’s unlimited backup.

Source on GitHub

Highlights

  • Browser-as-API: connects to Chrome’s local DevTools endpoint (dedicated profile, port 9222) and reads the live signed-in DOM — no cookies sent anywhere, no unofficial API to break.
  • AutoHotkey v2 launcher: F8 scan, F9 scan + advance, F10 repeat N times with Esc/second-press cancellation.
  • PowerShell helper that clicks like a human: native hover + press/release on the visible “View next photo” button (Google ignores HTMLElement.click() on hidden controls), random 100–1000 ms dwell per photo.
  • Self-verifying advances: URL-change check with restore-and-retry, failure reasons logged to GooglePhotos-last-result.txt, flagged items appended with timestamps to GooglePhotos-review.txt.
  • The output is a work queue: 23,500 audit lines separating unlimited-backup items from the 15 GB consumers waiting to be offloaded.

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