Facebook today announced that it plans to launch 2020 a new tool that will allow Facebook users to upload their photos and videos from Facebook to Google Photos.
The tool is already operating in Ireland, and will be released to everyone by the 2020 authorities, according to the company.
The upcoming Facebook to Google photo transfer tool is the company's first Data Transfer Project (DTP)-based product framework.
The Data Transfer Project is an open standard for data organization that helps users transfer information them from one platform to another.
The program was founded in 2017 and officially announced in July 2018. Founding members included Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter. Apple joined the project after a few months.
Ο codes of DTP for the export and transferring content in DTP format (text, settings, photos, videos) is open-source and hosted on GitHub in the hope that other platforms will adopt it too.
To help companies get started, the founding members of DTP have created extensions for hosting an import / export API for shared hosting platforms such as Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure.
Let's look at the tools in practice.
