Method: sharedAlbums.join

• HTTP request
• Request body
  • JSON representation
• Response body
  • JSON representation
• Authorization Scopes
• Try it!

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

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

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

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