Download full resolution video from Google Photos API

Question

I'm trying to get a link to a full-resolution video with the API reading the Google Photos API documentation.

It says concatenate the base URL in the following format with your required dimensions but says nothing else about dimensions.

I'm using ${baseUrl}=dv and I get a download link for a low resolution video but if I look at the video in the Google Photos site I can see it has a wider resolution.

Answer 1

Unfortunately this is currently an issue with base URLs for video files. The dv parameter does not support specifying a resolution at the moment and returns a downsampled version of the video.

This is not ideal and we are looking into ways to address this. You can follow along on our issue tracker here: https://issuetracker.google.com/80149160