amazon-photos-album-download
Installation
SKILL.md
amazon-photos-album-download
Self-Evolving Skill: This skill improves through use. If instructions are wrong, parameters drifted, or a workaround was needed — fix this file immediately, don't defer. Only update for real, reproducible issues.
Download every original file from a public Amazon Photos shared album — the kind of link you get from "Share → Copy link", e.g. https://www.amazon.ca/photos/share/qGAyl…. No Amazon login is needed for a public share; the album authorizes anonymously via its shareId.
When to use
- You shared an album with someone and need the originals back locally to re-process them (the #1 case: convert iPhone HEIC originals to JPEG for a recipient who can't open HEIC — then see the
heic-to-jpeg-bundleskill). - You want to re-host an album's photos yourself (a static gallery, a ZIP).
- You need a verified, complete local backup of a share you (or someone) sent.
How it works
Amazon Photos is a React app over Amazon Drive's /drive/v1/ JSON API. A public share exposes, with just the shareId as auth: