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User Id, Album ID, and JSON/RSS feed URL of a Google Photos album

While this was easy in PicasaWeb, it's a bit more challenging in Google Photos... if you've found a better way please share them below!

The way we've found that works best is via the JSON view of all of your albums in your account.

Step 1: get your User ID

You can get the ID by going to your Google+ Page, right-click on Profile, and copy that URL. Your User ID is the long numerical string like below (the Xs):

https://plus.google.com/u/0/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

another method is by going to https://get.google.com/albumarchive, which will then redirect to https://get.google.com/albumarchive/[User ID] (thanks +Peggy K!

Step 2: create your JSON url for your User ID

This is what the URL needs to look like; replace the XXXXXXX with your own User ID from above.

http://photos.googleapis.com/data/feed/api/user/XXXXXXXXXXXXX?alt=json

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