How to download multiple Google Drive photos from URLs?
You can change a Google Drive image link to a download link by swapping for (just use a replace all tool, I'm fond of TextMechanic's simple, free, online Find and Replace but Notepad find and replace will do the trick).
I'm a user of Google Drive and as you say it's just a matter of getting the download link. An example on my drive is
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz697J8sF_ekS1ZSV0tGSS1ZbHc/edit?usp=sharing
for the share link, or
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bz697J8sF_ekS1ZSV0tGSS1ZbHc/edit
for the edit link. The download link is
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0Bz697J8sF_ekS1ZSV0tGSS1ZbHc
as described in this article.
So it's simply a matter of find and replace on
https://docs.google.com/file/d/ or https://drive.google.com/file/d/
for https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=
and finding and replacing /edit or /edit?usp=sharing with (nothing i.e. deleting them)
Once you've done that you can download a list of files in a number of ways, but if you want to stay in the browser I've written a Chrome extension called TabSave to do just that - there's an option to use a manual list for downloading (it also allows downloading files in every tab of a window).
You can just paste in from your list of edited URLs and they'll download. Very lightweight and you don't need to worry about dodgy installation of these one-hit wonder freeware programs. All the code is open source on GitHub (link in the webstore description).
Method 1
You can try a program called URL Image Downloader. It's a free software hosted on Source Forge. Here is a short description.
You can download the images from a URL list. You only need a file with URL list, and destination folder
It is a console application, developed with .NET technology.
I have not tried this out myself, so I can't guarantee it will work. But I don't see any reason why it shouldn't. It seems like a very useful and simple to use tool.
The way it works is you create a plain text file containing the URLs for the photos you want to download, each URL on a new line. Something like this.
https://plus.google.com/photos/photo_01.jpg
https://plus.google.com/photos/photo_02.jpg
https://plus.google.com/photos/photo_03.jpg
https://plus.google.com/photos/photo_04.jpg
https://plus.google.com/photos/photo_05.jpg
https://plus.google.com/photos/photo_06.jpg
https://plus.google.com/photos/photo_07.jpg
https://plus.google.com/photos/photo_08.jpg
https://plus.google.com/photos/photo_09.jpg
https://plus.google.com/photos/photo_10.jpg
https://plus.google.com/photos/photo_11.jpg
https://plus.google.com/photos/photo_12.jpg
This is the hardest part, as you will have to do this work manually. You would then save this to C:\Users\You\Desktop\Your_text_document.txt for example. Once you have this file you would then use the tool to have it look for these file URLs online and grab them.
You can see in the example above from the screenshot how to type in your command. I recommend you to first prepare a folder (/dest) where you would want the downloaded files to be stored.
Link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/urlimagedownloader/
Method 2
The second, and probably the easiest way to do this is to contact the person that sent you those photos. Ask them to move these photos into a new album, share it, and then have them send you the URL for the album.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+to+create+album+google+photos
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+to+share+album+google+photos