With flickr putting the kibosh on unlimited photos with the free account I'm wondering if there is a known automated way to migrate thousands of photos from my flickr account to google photos. I've seen some ways where albums are moved over manually but this is not tenable with hundreds of albums that I have.
How to Migrate from Flickr to Google Photos
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If you upload using the Google Photos uploader, albums won't get automatically created, but the folder name will get saved with the photo metadata.
Try this: after uploading your photos from multiple folders, do a search to one of the folder names ("solar eclipse" in your case). This will list all your photos uploaded from that folder. Now - for the moment - you can put up with this funcitonality (always accessing your albums by a search).
In Settings, you can set whether web uploads are "High Quality" or "Original".
Best Answer
I didn't have any luck finding a working solution so I built one - https://github.com/llevar/flickr_to_google_photos_migration
Here's a guide I wrote on how to do it - https://medium.com/@llevar/how-to-migrate-your-flickr-library-to-google-photos-for-free-using-apis-and-python-2c97d3cb54a2