Method: sharedAlbums.join

• HTTP request
• Request body
  • JSON representation
• Response body
  • JSON representation
• Authorization scopes
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Beginning March 31, 2025, this method will no longer work. Some or all of the scopes previously used for this method are being removed. Please see Photos APIs updates for more details.

Joins a shared album on behalf of the Google Photos user.

HTTP request

POST https://photoslibrary.googleapis.com/v1/sharedAlbums:join

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Request body

The request body contains data with the following structure:

JSON representation
{ "shareToken": string }

Fields
shareToken	string Required. Token to join the shared album on behalf of the user.

Response body

Response to successfully joining the shared album on behalf of the user.

If successful, the response body contains data with the following structure:

JSON representation
{ "album": { object (Album) } }

Fields
album	object (Album) Shared album that the user has joined.

Authorization scopes

Requires the following OAuth scope:

• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/photoslibrary.sharing