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Google Photos is Google’s cloud photo storage and organization service, with backups, search, and sharing. Connect your account once and the agent can work with your library directly, or let visitors add their own photos into your project.
Available on all plans

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Why connect Google Photos

  • Let visitors add their own photos. Build an event site where guests upload straight into a shared Google Photos album, no separate upload tool needed.
  • Turn an album into a gallery page. Show the photos from a Google Photos album in your project as a grid, always in sync with what’s in the album.
  • Find and organize photos from the chat. Upload images, search your library, or build an album without opening Google Photos.

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What you need

  • A Google account with Google Photos. Sign in at photos.google.com if you don’t already have one.

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Connect Google Photos to Macaly

1

Open Settings

Go to Settings → Integrations in your Macaly workspace.
2

Connect Google Photos

Find the Google Photos card in the list of apps and click the Connect button.
3

Authorize your account

A new window opens, where you’ll be asked to sign in to Google. Once you approve access, you’ll be redirected back to Macaly.

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Use Google Photos from the chat

Once connected, describe what you want and the agent handles the rest. Let visitors upload their own photos: 
I'm building an event site. Let guests upload photos that go
straight into a shared Google Photos album.
Turn an album into a gallery: 
Build a gallery page that pulls the photos from my "Portfolio"
Google Photos album and shows them in a grid.
Manage your library directly: 
Upload these images to Google Photos and put them in a new album
called "Launch event".

Search my Google Photos for last summer's beach photos and give
me the download links.

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What the agent can do in Google Photos

Upload and download media, create and update albums, add enrichments like text or location, search your library, and edit a photo’s description. Google Photos only lets apps manage the media they uploaded, so the agent sees app-created items and what you point it to, not your entire library.

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Good to know

  • You connect once. Every project in your workspace reuses the same Google Photos connection.
  • The agent works with its own uploads. Google Photos only lets apps list and manage the media they uploaded, so the agent sees app-created items and what you point it to, not your entire library.
  • Your account, your control. The agent only acts when you ask it to. You can disconnect Google Photos anytime from Settings → Integrations.