diff --git a/etc/api/shared.yaml b/etc/api/shared.yaml
index ce378d207c..0704c08239 100644
--- a/etc/api/shared.yaml
+++ b/etc/api/shared.yaml
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ api:
     - slides
     # invalid code generation - syntax error
     - poly
+  manually_added:
+    - name: photoslibrary
+      version: v1
+      discovery_rest_url: https://photoslibrary.googleapis.com/$discovery/rest?version=v1
   terms:
     # how to actually do something with the API
     action: doit
diff --git a/src/mako/deps.mako b/src/mako/deps.mako
index ca78b2db18..673c046fa5 100644
--- a/src/mako/deps.mako
+++ b/src/mako/deps.mako
@@ -22,6 +22,14 @@
 
 	discovery_url = 'https://www.googleapis.com/discovery/v1/'
 	apis = json.loads(urllib2.urlopen(discovery_url + "apis").read())
+
+	for manualy_api in api.get('manually_added', list()):
+		apis['items'].append({
+			'name': manualy_api['name'],
+			'version': manualy_api['version'],
+			'discoveryRestUrl': manualy_api['discovery_rest_url']
+			})
+
 	json_api_targets = []
 
 	suffix = make.target_suffix