Today I created a photo album in my own nextcloud instance and I needed to download all pictures from that album.
Problem : it seems that this feature was disabled in previous version see this post : Possible to download all photos from an album? - #6 by rzbrk
After some research on the web, i didn’t find a way to do that. But I found a solution until the feature is add and I thought it was a good idea to share my temporary solution.
Pre-requisites : install WinSCP if you are on Windows (or equivalent but compatible with WebDAV protocol) | Create public link of your album
Step 1 :
Go to your public album in your web browser, show devtools window (F12), use “pick element from the page” feature and click on a picture. You will find the url of your picture. Copy that.
Step 2:
In WinSCP, select a new connection and chose WebDAV protocol. Past the link of your picture and remove the picture name (.jpg). Click on connect.
Step 3:
You will connect to your remote directory album and now you can download all your photos !
I am using Linux (Arch with XFCE) and tried to reproduce the work-around with the programs available on this platform:
Added a public link to an existing album in NC.
Opened a console in the Brave Browser (based on Chrome) with F12 and copied the link for one images of the album. Then, I removed the filename of the image. The resulting link has the form: https://<base url>/remote.php/dav/photos/<user>/albums/<album name>
I copied the link to the address bar of the file browser Thunar and exchanged “https” by “davs”. Then, I am presented with a dialogue to enter my credentials.
Unfortunately, I get the error message “Failed to open . HTTP Error: Not Found.”
Note: I use 2FA authentication, therefore I cannot use my regular account password. Instead, I used a dedicated application password that I generated beforehand.
I think there is a little confusion in your URL. When you get it from devtools it should be https://<base url>/remote.php/dav/photospublic/<random folder name of the album>. There is no user inside
Next, when you copy that link without the picture you do not need to log in your ftp software.
Note : when you target a picture in your public album you have to take the url from html tag link <a> </a> not tag img.
Yes, you are right. I changed the sequence of actions from my last post. That is was I did now following your recommendation:
Added a public link to an existing album in NC.
Opened the album following the public link.
Opened a console in the Brave Browser (based on Chrome) with F12 and copied the link for one images of the album from the <a> tag. Then, I removed the filename of the image. The resulting link has the form: https://<base url>/remote.php/dav/photospublic/<random album id generated by NC>
I copied the link to the address bar of the file browser Thunar and exchanged “https” by “davs”. Then, I am presented with a dialogue to enter my credentials.
After entering my credentials I was presented with a list of files for the images in the album!
