Flickr Uploading

On a whim I gave up with my personal web gallery implementation and switched to Flickr. Now, uploading is fun. I could use the web-based upload form, but as I can't DnD from Nautilus into a text field that is dull, and whilst copy/paste works that is also dull. I can email images but I can't send lots at once (they have a 12M limit per email), and have to remove the signature and GPG signing for every message. Also dull. I'll get a billion people shouting "use F-Spot", which I tried, but it doesn't want to import some of my photos, and it doesn't work with my photo storage either, so that isn't an option for now.

Thus, I'm considering writing a small Nautilus extension in Python, so that in the context menu of every image there is a Upload to Flickr option. I'd prefer not to re-invent the wheel so does anyone else has written a simple GNOMEy uploading tool for Flickr? Thanks!

12:45 Tuesday, 06 Jun 2006 [#] [life] (21 comments)

Posted by Tomasz Torcz at Tue Jun 6 13:26:25 2006:
http://gnickr.sourceforge.net/
It need some love WRT new authentication system on Flickr.
Posted by LucaC at Tue Jun 6 13:26:26 2006:
Hi Ross,
never tested, but there is gnickr, http://gnickr.sourceforge.net/ , and there was also another tool (in python maybe) but I can't find it anymore.
Posted by LucaC at Tue Jun 6 13:27:42 2006:
Hey, this lazyweb stuff seems to work :)
Posted by LucaC at Tue Jun 6 13:30:34 2006:
And here is the other tool :) http://micampe.it/things/flickruploadr and http://micampe.it/things/flickrclient
Posted by skippy at Tue Jun 6 13:31:24 2006:
I've been using jUploadr (http://juploadr.sourceforge.net/) for quite some time.  Originally I wasn't keen on the Java, but it's a well-behaved app that does exactly what it should and nothing else.

It easily adds photos to groups, rotates images, and supports batch operation for taggging and describing.

Overall, I've been very pleased with it.
Posted by Nils Pickert at Tue Jun 6 13:47:41 2006:
There is also flickrfs, which I did not try but it sounds useful: http://manishrjain.googlepages.com/flickrfs
Posted by Justin at Tue Jun 6 14:48:02 2006:
as skippy said -- jUploadr works very well, in my experience.  It even supports a nice "drag-and-drop from nautilus" mode.  Thumbs up!
Posted by Nelson at Tue Jun 6 14:53:15 2006:
jBrout -> http://gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=1109 ,  is a photo manager, written in python/pygtk which can export to a flickr account
Posted by Stephen English at Tue Jun 6 15:41:36 2006:
I put together http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~se204/wiki/index.php?title=Upload-to-flickr - a python script that site on my sent-to menu and lets me upload to existing sets, create new sets and tag groups of photos. It's ideal for what I want, but at the moment I haven't put the flickr code into another thread so the gui locks up - I have a fix for this here, I'll update that page in a bit.
Posted by tre at Tue Jun 6 15:46:07 2006:
How about fixing Drag and Drop?  That way you don't need any nast kludges -- everything just works as it should.

To write ANOTHER Flickr upload tool just exacerbates the problem.
Posted by Ross at Tue Jun 6 15:52:39 2006:
Tre: if I fixed DnD from nautilus to text fields, uploading that way would still be dull.  FlickrUploadr is rocking my world at the moment, thanks everyone.
Posted by Abe Fettig at Tue Jun 6 16:03:12 2006:
F-spot has an excellent built-in "export to flickr" feature. It uploads the picture and will include any tags/descriptions you've added locally. Very easy and fun to use.
Posted by Aigarius at Tue Jun 6 16:40:48 2006:
I have also liked kflickr
Posted by Ross at Tue Jun 6 17:16:16 2006:
Ross, I'm happy you are enjoying FlickrUploadr, you've been lucky you have signed before the Y! merge, because my little tool doesn't (yet?) support the new (and fairly complicated) authentication scheme...
Posted by Mike at Tue Jun 6 18:51:57 2006:
There's also glimmr. It's what I've used in the past, and it seems to do the trick.
Posted by Britt at Tue Jun 6 19:01:15 2006:
Also, flock.com provides a great flickr uploading tool. I'm not sure what the stable branch looks like but the latest tinderbox build is rockin.
Posted by Jason at Tue Jun 6 22:34:03 2006:
I've tried most of the rest. With the new Y! authentication mechanisms, they're absolute pants.

The only reliable ones appear to be F-Spot and my favourite, jUploadr.
Posted by Richard at Wed Jun 7 00:37:33 2006:
http://nozell.com/blog/archives/2004/09/04/flickr-upload-for-gnomes-nautilus/

It's a very quick and dirty (gtk 1.2) way of uploading via a nautilus script, but works fine.
Posted by Kai Hendry at Wed Jun 7 04:30:57 2006:
<pre>
#!/bin/sh
TAGS=/tmp/upload

EMAIL=youruploadid@photos.flickr.com

while read line
do
echo Uploading "$line"
mutt -s `basename $line` -a "$line" $EMAIL < $TAGS
done
</pre>
/tmp/upload should look like tags: blah, blaaaa

Use find and pipe it in.
Posted by BRB at Wed Jun 7 14:50:48 2006:
No, more tate gallery?!  I am sad.
Posted by andyp at Thu Jun 8 06:34:26 2006:
glimmr is broken and despite my bug reports, hasn't been fixed.

jUploadr works brilliantly and the author is very helpful.

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