Google Photos MCP by Nova (CIVAI)
co.civai.nova/mcp-google_photos
Tools
Exactly what the server advertised in the scan completed . Effects and capabilities are classified by Squatch from each tool's metadata. Squatch never runs tools.
- Effect: Read 8
- Effect: Write 6
- Effect: Delete 1
- Effect: Admin 2
Showing 17 of 17 tools
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| add_to_album Add library items to an existing album. | Effect: Admin | |
| remove_from_album Remove items from an album. The photos stay in the library; only the album membership changes. | Effect: Admin | |
| trash_media Move items to Google Photos' Trash, where they stay recoverable for 60 days. Never deletes permanently and cannot empty the Trash. Requires… | Effect: Delete | |
| archive_media Archive items (they leave the main photo grid but stay in albums, search and Archive), or unarchive with archive=false. | Effect: Write | |
| create_album Create a new album with a title, optionally adding library items to it straight away. | Effect: Write | |
| set_favorite Mark items as favorites (favorite=true, default) or remove the favorite (favorite=false). | Effect: Write | |
| set_network_identity Choose where this user's requests to the site leave from and which browser they present, only when the user asks (e.g. 'connect through Nig… | Effect: Write | |
| start_browser_auth Open Google Photos sign-in only when needed. If the saved session is still valid, this tool returns success immediately and does not open t… | Effect: Write | |
| upload_media Upload a local photo or video file (up to 10 GB) into the library, optionally into an album. Sent in resumable chunks, so a dropped connect… | Effect: Write | |
| check_session Check that the saved Google Photos session still works and list the signed-in accounts. Read-only: it never refreshes the session. If it re… | Effect: Read | |
| download_media Save the bytes of a thumbnail at any size or the original file to a local folder and return the path (plus sha256, and base64 for small fil… | Effect: Read | |
| get_media Full metadata for one item: filename, taken time and timezone offset, file size, dimensions, photo/video and duration, camera make/model/ap… | Effect: Read | |
| get_network_identity Where this user's requests to the site leave from (a VPN country, the server, or the app's default) and which browser they present. Read-on… | Effect: Read | |
| list_accounts List the Google accounts signed in to the saved session with their /u/<N>/ slot. Call first and confirm with the user which email holds the… | Effect: Read | |
| list_albums List the user's albums (album_key, title, created), or pass album_key to list the items inside that album. | Effect: Read | |
| list_media Page through the Google Photos library timeline, newest first: media key, taken/uploaded time, dimensions, photo or video (+duration), favo… | Effect: Read | |
| search_media Search the library the way the Google Photos search box does: free text (sunset, food, beach), a person's name from People, a place, or a t… | Effect: Read |