Facebook announced today that it plans to release a new tool in 2020 that will allow Facebook users to transfer their photos and their videos from Facebook at 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 photo transfer tool from Facebook to Google is the company's first product based on the Data Transfer Project (DTP) framework.
The Data Transfer Project is an open standard for the organization data that helps users transfer their information from one platform to another.
The program was founded by 2017 and was officially announced in July by 2018. The founding members included Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter. Apple joined the project after a few months.
Ο codeof DTP to export and transfer content in DTP format (text, settings, φωτογραφίες, βίντεο) είναι ανοιχτού κώδικα (open-source) and is hosted at 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.
