How to automatically sync screenshots from the Steamdeck to Google Photos

As a follow-up to my earlier post about how to sync screenshots to Google Drive here’s how to achieve the same but with a dedicated “Steamdeck” album on Google Photos instead.

Once again we are using rclone for syncing.

First I created a new target gphoto by running ~/bin/rclone config again and then following these steps. Quick summary:

1. New remote
2. gphoto
3. Empty application ID and secret
4. Full access
5. No advanced config
6. Use web browser to authenticate

I then created a new album:

rclone mkdir gphoto:album/Steamdeck

and adjusted ~/bin/sync_screenshots to use the new remote and remote path:

REMOTE_NAME='gphoto'
REMOTE_DIR='album/Steamdeck'

That was all.

Obviously the same can be done with any of the other sync targets that rclone supports, of which there are many. For ownCloud or NextCloud it looks like WebDAV is the right option to choose.