https://www.rustybower.com/tags/immich/Recent content in Immich on Rusty BowerHugoen-usThu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.rustybower.com/posts/birdbuddy-immich-photo-pipeline/Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.rustybower.com/posts/birdbuddy-immich-photo-pipeline/<p>My <a href="https://mybirdbuddy.com/">Bird Buddy</a> smart feeder takes a photo every time a bird visits. Over a few months, that adds up to thousands of images — all sitting in Bird Buddy&rsquo;s cloud app with no good way to search, organize, or back them up. I wanted them in <a href="https://immich.app/">Immich</a>, my self-hosted photo library, organized by species and properly timestamped.</p> <p>The Bird Buddy app doesn&rsquo;t have an export feature. But the <code>pybirdbuddy</code> Python library can authenticate to their API and walk the feed. So I built a two-stage pipeline: a CronJob that downloads new photos daily, and a second CronJob that syncs them into Immich. Both run in Kubernetes, and the whole thing is about 300 lines of Python.</p>