**I made an n8n workflow that auto-populates a Couple Album in Immich — only photos where exactly 2 specific people appear together 📸**
Been self-hosting Immich for a while and wanted a "just us" album that stays updated automatically — no manual curation, no group shots sneaking in, no solo photos. So I built it with n8n.
It's two workflows:
Full Library Backfill — run once, scans your entire library (fully paginated, no 1000 photo cap), populates the album from day one
Daily Incremental — runs every night at 3:30am, only checks the last 2 days, sends you a Telegram notification with the results
The filter is strict: `people.length === 2` and both must be your configured people. Solo shots and group photos are automatically excluded.
Telegram message looks like this every morning:
📸 Immich Couple Album Update
✅ 3 new photo(s) added
👫 Person1 & Person2
🔁 12 already in album
🔍 15 couple photos found / 47 scanned
📅 Since: 2026-05-13
A few things I ran into building this that might save someone else time:
- fetch and $http don't work in n8n Code nodes with the task runner — helpers.httpRequest` is the one that works
- The Merge node in newer n8n throws a "Fields to Match" error in multiplex mode — I do the second person lookup inside a Code node instead, no Merge node needed
- Error workflows need an **Error Trigger** node as the first node or they won't show up in the dropdown
I'm not a developer — this is me learning n8n by building something I actually wanted. There's definitely room for improvement and I'd love feedback from people who know what they're doing.
GitHub: https://github.com/dhaval9911/n8n-immich-couple-album-auto
Note: It will need to have both the person's face ids are associated to the asset.
Full README with step-by-step setup is in the repo. Would love to hear if anyone adapts it for a family album or friend group — the filter is easy to tweak for more than 2 people.
Happy to answer questions! 🙏