[[["Easy to understand","easyToUnderstand","thumb-up"],["Solved my problem","solvedMyProblem","thumb-up"],["Other","otherUp","thumb-up"]],[["Missing the information I need","missingTheInformationINeed","thumb-down"],["Too complicated / too many steps","tooComplicatedTooManySteps","thumb-down"],["Out of date","outOfDate","thumb-down"],["Samples / code issue","samplesCodeIssue","thumb-down"],["Other","otherDown","thumb-down"]],["Last updated 2025-02-21 UTC."],[[["Joins a shared album on behalf of a Google Photos user, via a POST request to the provided URL."],["Requires a request body containing a shareToken to join the shared album."],["Returns the shared album object in the response body upon successful joining."],["Needs authorization with the `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/photoslibrary.sharing` scope."],["**Important:** This method will be deprecated on March 31, 2025, due to removal of associated scopes."]]],["This describes how to join a shared Google Photos album via API, using a `POST` request to `https://photoslibrary.googleapis.com/v1/sharedAlbums:join`. The request body requires a `shareToken` as a string. A successful response returns an `album` object, indicating the user has joined the shared album. The method requires the `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/photoslibrary.sharing` authorization scope, and will not be functional starting March 31, 2025.\n"]]