We fetch a lot of media from Google's Drive API on behalf of our users. We care about photos and videos and we determine which is which via the mime type. The files endpoint is what we use to do this:
https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/files
However, since about mid-2016 Google Photos began backing up iOS live photos, which have a still image component and a video component. My questions is, how do I programmatically determine which is which and once I've detected a live photo, how do I access just the image component?
In practice what I've found is that live photos return as video/mp4 with a file extension of .JPG. However, the only image I have access to is a thumbnail.