download_photos.py tries to connect to non-existing host p48-photosws.icloud.com

Login and 2-factor auth succeeded:

$ ./download_photos.py ./dest/ --username [e-mail] --password XXXXXXXX --size original
Signing in...
Updating photos...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./download_photos.py", line 231, in <module>
    download()
  File "/home/hreese/src/icloud_photos_downloader/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 722, in __call__
    return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/hreese/src/icloud_photos_downloader/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 697, in main
    rv = self.invoke(ctx)
  File "/home/hreese/src/icloud_photos_downloader/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 895, in invoke
    return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
  File "/home/hreese/src/icloud_photos_downloader/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 535, in invoke
    return callback(*args, **kwargs)
  File "./download_photos.py", line 55, in download
    updatePhotos(icloud)
  File "./download_photos.py", line 155, in updatePhotos
    icloud.photos.update()
  File "/home/hreese/src/icloud_photos_downloader/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyicloud/base.py", line 306, in photos
    self.params
  File "/home/hreese/src/icloud_photos_downloader/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyicloud/services/photos.py", line 35, in __init__
    params=self.params
  File "/home/hreese/src/icloud_photos_downloader/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 515, in get
    return self.request('GET', url, **kwargs)
  File "/home/hreese/src/icloud_photos_downloader/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyicloud/base.py", line 67, in request
    response = super(PyiCloudSession, self).request(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/hreese/src/icloud_photos_downloader/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 502, in request
    resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
  File "/home/hreese/src/icloud_photos_downloader/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 612, in send
    r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
  File "/home/hreese/src/icloud_photos_downloader/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 504, in send
    raise ConnectionError(e, request=request)
requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='p48-photosws.icloud.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /ph/startup?clientBuildNumber=14E45&dsid=xxxxxxxxxxx&clientId=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxx (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x7f47f80603d0>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno -2] Name or service not known',))

Is that a bug in pyicloud or download_photos.py?

[chadj]

I’ve been working on picklepete/pyicloud#136 over in chadj/pyicloud/ckdatabasews and since it contains a few backwards compatibly issues I decided to update icloud_photos_downloader to be compatible with these changes. You can try out that update over at chadj/icloud_photos_downloader/ckdatabasews. You’ll need to install chadj/pyicloud/ckdatabasews first ofcourse.

I also added a new command line option

  --until-found INTEGER RANGE     Download most recently added photos until we
                                  find x number of previously downloaded
                                  consecutive photos (default: download all photos)

Which will drastically speed up what I think is the common use for using this command line tool

[chadj]

Try this @f1rf1n

sudo pip uninstall pyicloud

git clone https://github.com/chadj/icloud_photos_downloader.git

git checkout ckdatabasews

sudo pip install -r requirements.txt

Checking out the branch was missing from those steps