Third party tool for rule-based smart albums

[kvalev]

I created a tool for automatically creating and updating rule-based smart albums, one of the most requested Immich feature #1673.

You can find all the code and documentation in this repository https://github.com/kvalev/immich-dynamic-albums

The TL;DR is to create a config file containing one or more albums and their respective rules:

[
    {
        "name": "Best of Egypt 2021",
        "query": {
            "country": "Egypt",
            "favorite": true,
            "timespan": {
                "start": "2021-05-01",
                "end": "2021-05-10"
            }
        }
    }
]

And then mount it in the provided docker container and it will periodically query Immich for matching assets and keep those albums up-to-date:

    immich-dynamic-albums:
        image: ghcr.io/kvalev/immich-dynamic-albums:latest
        restart: unless-stopped
        volumes:
            - PATH_TO_CONFIG_JSON_FILE:/config/dynamic-albums.json:ro
        environment:
            IMMICH_URL: http://immich_server:2283/
            IMMICH_API_KEY: API_KEY
            CONFIG_FILE: /config/dynamic-albums.json
            SCHEDULE_INTERVAL: 1440 # 1440 minutes, meaning once per day
            PYTHONUNBUFFERED: True # ensure stdout is flushed on every print
        depends_on:
            immich-server:
                condition: service_healthy

If you have any suggestions or discover any issue let me know here or raise an issue in the other repository.
If someone from the Immich team finds this helpful you can link it in the locked feature request.

[betoevo]

Hi, first of all this looks really a super useful funcionality! Thanks for the work! :)
Does this Smart album support for example "persons" on the Inputs
For example populate "David's Album" with only photos where the person "David" is face recognized,
This may seem a bit dumb, but for example sharing kid's photos with grandpas require grandpas to hassle a bit with Immich
whereas sharing the album of specific person is a bit more straight forward.

In my specific use case most family media (Dad/Mom/grandpas & grandpas) are feeding Immich through external folders (use synology to work with it) however to share people photos each specific needs a specific album from each gallery to each specific person resulting in something not very useful.

Using an "admin" way Immich recognizing everyones galleries and sharing with everyone "Kids" album seems like a really handy way, the only issue is that photos can not be included but manually parsing the whole gallery (but then I found this so maybe it is possible so thank you a lot! )

[kvalev]

This may seem a bit dumb, but for example sharing kid's photos with grandpas require grandpas to hassle a bit with Immich
whereas sharing the album of specific person is a bit more straight forward.

Not at all, this is indeed one of the ways I use it as well :)

Anyway, what you are asking is supported, you can check the repository documentation, but essentially you can create a config like:

[
    {
        "name": "David's Album",
        "query": {
            "people": ["David"]
        }
    }
]

Of course this will only work in you have only one person named "David", if you have multiple you can use David's UUID instead of the name.

[betoevo]

You are wonderful thank you very much! This exactly what I missed thanks a lot! I will try to configure it in a auto task on Synology