feat(immich): an upload with no album ticked lands in the app's own RecipesCam album, made on first use

docker/backend/src/immich.ts

@@ -204,6 +204,25 @@ async function listAlbums(server: ImmichServer): Promise<AlbumRow[] | Failure> {
   return ((await jsonOf<RawAlbum[]>(res)) ?? []).filter((album) => album.id).map((album) => albumRow(album));
 }
 
+// The album this app keeps for its own uploads: made once, on the first upload
+// that has no album of its own to go to, then found by name every time after.
+// ponytail: found by name, not remembered as an id — an album renamed or deleted
+// on Immich is followed (and remade) rather than fought; cache the id in
+// `server.albums` if the extra list on every upload ever shows up in a profile.
+const APP_ALBUM = 'RecipesCam';
+async function appAlbumId(server: ImmichServer): Promise<string | null> {
+  const albums = await listAlbums(server);
+  const found = Array.isArray(albums)
+    ? albums.find((album) => album.albumName.trim().toLowerCase() === APP_ALBUM.toLowerCase())
+    : undefined;
+  if (found?.id) return found.id;
+  // A key without `album.create` is refused here, and the photo keeps the
+  // timeline-only fate it had before: upload is not what failed.
+  const res = await call(server, { method: 'POST', path: '/albums', json: { albumName: APP_ALBUM } });
+  if (!res.ok) return null;
+  return (await jsonOf<RawAlbum>(res))?.id ?? null;
+}
+
 // The tags this key can see whose name holds what was typed. Asked for on every
 // search rather than cached: a tag made on Immich has to be found by the next
 // one, and the list is small. A key without `tag.read` is answered 403, which is
@@ -619,8 +638,12 @@ export function immichRoutes(
         const data = await immichRes.json().catch(() => ({}));
         const assetId = (data as any)?.id;
 
-        // If target album is given, add to album
-        const targetAlbum = q.album || (server.albums?.length === 1 ? server.albums[0] : undefined);
+        // Where the photo should land: the album asked for, else the single album
+        // this account ticked, else the one album the app keeps for itself — made
+        // on the spot the first time. No key that can hold albums? The photo keeps
+        // the timeline, as it always did.
+        const targetAlbum =
+          q.album || (server.albums?.length === 1 ? server.albums[0] : undefined) || (assetId ? await appAlbumId(server) : undefined);
         if (targetAlbum && assetId) {
           try {
             await fetch(new URL(`${server.url}/api/albums/${targetAlbum}/assets`), {