Hey everyone! Long-time lurker, first-time poster here.
I’ve been self-hosting Immich for a while and always wanted a “just us” album — only photos where my wife and I appear together, no group shots, no solo photos, automatically kept up to date.
Spoiler: harder than I expected for a non-developer, but I got there!
What it does
Two workflows working together:
- Full Library Backfill — scans your entire Immich library once and populates the album. Fully paginated so it doesn’t cap at 1000 photos.
- Daily Incremental — runs every night at 3:30am, only checks the last 2 days of photos, sends a Telegram notification with the results.
The filter is strict: exactly 2 people in the photo, and both must be the people you configured. Solo shots and group photos are excluded.
What I learned building this
A few things that tripped me up that might help others:
fetchand$httpare both unavailable in Code nodes on newer n8n versions with the task runner — usehelpers.httpRequestinstead- The Merge node in multiplex mode throws a “Fields to Match” error in newer n8n — I ended up doing the second person lookup inside a Code node with
helpers.httpRequestinstead, which works great - For error workflows to show up in the dropdown, the workflow must start with an Error Trigger node — a plain Code node won’t work
The workflow
Config node → Find Person 1 → Extract ID → Get Person 2 inside Code node → Fetch & filter (paginated) → IF any results → Add to Album → Telegram notify
Everything is configured in a single Config node at the top — names, album ID, API key, Telegram token. Should be easy for anyone to adapt.
I’ve published it on GitHub with a full README including setup instructions:
GitHub - dhaval9911/n8n-immich-couple-album-auto: Automatically keep a Couple Album in Immich updated — only photos where exactly two specific people appear together, no solo shots, no group photos. · GitHub
Thanks to this community for all the posts that helped me figure this out. Happy to answer any questions! 