Setting up Google Integration with Nextcloud

Posted on Aug 31, 2024

Setting up Google Integration

I wanted to pull all my files and over 22K photos from Google to my self-hosted Nextcloud. I found this video that really helped with the details of getting the Google API properly configured.

https://youtu.be/HQOQ2NCUuVQ?si=z2MJulAmbxZPJoYk

Notes:
  1. I had to modify the default 5 minute cron job that Nextcloud runs on /var/www/html/cron.php. The jobs were not completing before the next cron job was initiated because of the importing process with Google APIs. I monitored it and settled on 18 minutes for the cron job to run.
  2. See article “Docker Cron Jobs for Containers” post for details.