Reindex Synology Photos

Simple script to call Synology Photo's reindex API that can be scheduled to run periodically.

The CLI commands did not work for me, unfortunately.

Instructions

Clone the repository.

git clone https://github.com/jmathai/synology-photos-reindexer.git

Change into the directory.

cd synology-photos-reindexer

Create virtual environment (optional but recommended)

python3 -m venv .env
source .env/bin/activate

Install dependencies.

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Export environment variables.

export SYNO_USERNAME=<your synology username>
export SYNO_PASSWORD=<your synology password>
export SYNO_HOSTNAME=<your synology hostname or ip address>

Run the script.

You may see some errors about an InsecureRequestWarning which can be ignored.

./main.py

Schedule the script

Schedule this to run using Synology's Task scheduler which can be found in the Control Panel.

From the Task Scheduler click Create -> Scheduled Task -> User defined script.

On the Task Settings tab you'll use the following commands from above customized with your values.

export SYNO_USERNAME='<your synology username>'
export SYNO_PASSWORD='<your synology password>'
export SYNO_HOSTNAME='<your synology hostname or ip address>'
cd <path to git repo>
source .env/bin/activate
./main.py