SmuggLr - for flickr, Phanfare, PicasaWeb, PhotoSite & Zenfolio refugees

[devbobo]

Hi Guys,

I am finally pleased to annouce my Firefox extension SmuggLr. For those who wish to transition photos from flickr, Phanfare, PhotoSite, PicasaWeb or Zenfolio to SmugMug.

Download it here.

Once installed, it can be accessed via Tools->SmuggLr. It's presented in an easy to use wizard format.

If you have any questions/problems, please post in this thread.

EDIT: And here is SmuggLr's Smuggy Home! http://smugglr.smugmug.com/

Versions:-

1st April 2010 v3.2
- Bug fixes that address occasional staling
- Enhancements to Phanfare, categories are now created to match year, filename should be transferred correctly

12th August 2009 v3.1
- Bug fix for Phanfare not transferring any files.

30th July 2009 v3.0
- Added support for running SmuggLr multiple times, it now checks whether images exist within a given gallery before transferring
- optimised flickr support and added collections for pro users.

6th January 2009 v2.8
- Fixed Picasa Web disabled continue button issue

13th June 2008 v2.5
- Fixed bug with flickr where potentially loads of duplicates could be imported
- Fixed bug with Picasa where users that had . or _ in their username got stuck and couldn't continue.

25th May 2008 v2.3, 2.4
- Fixed a few issues with Zenfolio

16 May 2008 v2.2
- Fixed Phanfare 2.0 bug where no photos were found

8th May 2008 v2.1
- SmuggLr's flickr api key expired

6th May 2008 v2.0
- Added support for Phanfare v2.0
- Fixed issue with flickr authentication on non-english pages

21th Feb 2008 v1.9
- Added support for Zenfolio
- Removed support for ImageStation
- fix flickr bug on free accounts with a lot of failures, now falls back to large size images if the original is not available.
- refactored some of the original code

12th Feb 2008 v1.8
- Added support for Picasa Web
- Fixed flickr append description bug

27 th Jan 2008 v1.7
- Added support for 4 byte characters in Album titles/descriptions

21th Dec 2007 v1.6
- Added support for Phanfare

12th Oct 2007 v1.3
- Fixed image error handling to only retry 3 times

12th Oct 2007 v1.2
- Added support for ImageStation and PhotoSite

3rd Aug 2007 v1.0
- Added geocoding support

29th Feb 2007 v0.7
- Fixed upload endpoint (my bad )
- Added selective photosets
- Support for automatic updates in future


Cheers,

David

[vincenzof]

Damn that was smooth! Nice work!

671 photos in well under 20 minutes.

[Barb]

Originally Posted by devbobo

Hi Guys,

I am finally pleased to annouce the beta of the Firefox extension SmuggLr. For those who wish to transition photos from flickr to SmugMug.

Download it here.

Once installed, it can be accessed via Tools->SmuggLr. It's presented in an easy to use wizard format.

If you have any questions/problems, please post in this thread.

EDIT: And here is SmuggLr's Smuggy Home! http://smugglr.smugmug.com/

Cheers,

David

Nice Dev!!!

[wellman]

I wish I had a Flickr account just so I could move some photos. Nice work!

[sith_kicker]

Great work on the extension!

I installed last night and tried to transfer my photos. I have 7665 photos on Flickr in 140 albums. The extension sees to create the albums fine, but on the first attempt it only processed 212 photos.

I restarted again, with the albums creating fine and the 'Image Processing' bar complete when I went to bed. When I woke up this morning, the extension screen said something like 'Conclusion' so I assumed it completed. I only found 3000+ photos transferred though, with some albums only having 1 or 2 photos.

I've deleted the albums again on Smugmug and am trying again during the light of day to see if it works!

[devbobo]

Originally Posted by sith_kicker

Great work on the extension!

I installed last night and tried to transfer my photos. I have 7665 photos on Flickr in 140 albums. The extension sees to create the albums fine, but on the first attempt it only processed 212 photos.

I restarted again, with the albums creating fine and the 'Image Processing' bar complete when I went to bed. When I woke up this morning, the extension screen said something like 'Conclusion' so I assumed it completed. I only found 3000+ photos transferred though, with some albums only having 1 or 2 photos.

I've deleted the albums again on Smugmug and am trying again during the light of day to see if it works!

G'day Sith,

Yeah, I am aware that there are a few issues potentially with very large albums. I have the resume functionality on my radar, hopefully I can get it working shortly.

Cheers,

David

[devbobo]

Sith,

ok, we found a problem...hopefully I will have a new version uploaded either today or tomorrow.

Cheers,

David

[wickenden]

When I tried an alpha version of some sort of flickr moving tool (not a firefox plugin but a standalone tool) it failed to bring most of my flickr images over, but it did make all the galleries private, which I liked.

I tried this tool and it seemed to be adding them to public galleries. Is there a way to have the default be private? Also, I would really like to be able to selectively pick flickr sets to transfer from, rather than have it go out and get everything.

Don
daylightvision.com

[luke_church]

Originally Posted by wickenden

When I tried an alpha version of some sort of flickr moving tool (not a firefox plugin but a standalone tool) it failed to bring most of my flickr images over,

Yeah, sorry about that, hope you didn't waste too time or bandwidth... @self.

Glad David's thing is working, sorry I don't actually have the time at the moment to fix SmugFlickr.

Nice one David, I'm sure you've got it all covered, but if you've got any brief questions that I might already have fought with, feel free to drop me an email

All the best,
Luke

[devbobo]

Originally Posted by wickenden

When I tried an alpha version of some sort of flickr moving tool (not a firefox plugin but a standalone tool) it failed to bring most of my flickr images over, but it did make all the galleries private, which I liked.

I tried this tool and it seemed to be adding them to public galleries. Is there a way to have the default be private? Also, I would really like to be able to selectively pick flickr sets to transfer from, rather than have it go out and get everything.

Don
daylightvision.com

Don,

The whole reason why I started developing SmuggLr was that Luke's SmugFlickr didn't get private images or images not in a set, and I knew that Luke was too busy to work in it.

Selective photosets is on my list and I will probably be working on it today.

Cheers,

David

[wickenden]

Thanks very much David. Selective photosets is a cool thing, especially since i plan on using my flickr in a different way than I use my smugmug, and will likely want to continue to update it -- almost use it as a stage for a select set of my smugmug images. But the question you didn't answer that I'm still curious about was whether Smugglr will put everything in a "private" gallery, or whether it will let those galleries be public.

I also didn't love the renaming of them to include "Smugglr - ..." in the gallery name. But, that's not a big deal.

Man, it sounds like I'm not impressed or happy, but I'm both. You gave a mile and I'm asking for a parsec.

Thanks again.

don

Originally Posted by devbobo

Don,

The whole reason why I started developing SmuggLr was that Luke's SmugFlickr didn't get private images or images not in a set, and I knew that Luke was too busy to work in it.

Selective photosets is on my list and I will probably be working on it today.

Cheers,

David

[Andy]

Originally Posted by wickenden

I also didn't love the renaming of them to include "Smugglr - ..." in the gallery name. But, that's not a big deal.

I think Dev's other tool, SmugBrowser, will allow you to easily rename them
http://smugmug.jot.com/WikiHome/SmugMugHacksAndApps

[wickenden]

Originally Posted by Andy

I think Dev's other tool, SmugBrowser, will allow you to easily rename them
http://smugmug.jot.com/WikiHome/SmugMugHacksAndApps

You're right -- I was playing with that cool browser last night, and on second thought, it's quite useful to have all those galleries "tagged" in such a way that they stand out. And -- it's easy enough for me to make these galleries private if it doesn't do it for me with that tool as well.

Great stuff, very, very cool.

don

[wickenden]

Originally Posted by luke_church

Yeah, sorry about that, hope you didn't waste too time or bandwidth... @self.

Glad David's thing is working, sorry I don't actually have the time at the moment to fix SmugFlickr.

Nice one David, I'm sure you've got it all covered, but if you've got any brief questions that I might already have fought with, feel free to drop me an email

All the best,
Luke

I was just glad you had the tool available. Nothing wasted -- it got me up and running. Frankly, it was the "final straw" that led me to go ahead and sign up (that and the flickr discount!).

don

[devbobo]

bump...version 0.7 released (see original post for details)

[jeremyandemily]

Thanks for the update to .7

Hey, I've noticed that Smugglr only transfers "hardcoded" (EXIF) geolocation info from Flickr and doesn't transfer "softcoded" (geotagged by tags) geolocation.

Any help on how I can prevent having to re-tag 2000+ photos? This might prevent me from making the switch now, as data preservation is key.

[devbobo]

Originally Posted by jeremyandemily

Thanks for the update to .7

Hey, I've noticed that Smugglr only transfers "hardcoded" (EXIF) geolocation info from Flickr and doesn't transfer "softcoded" (geotagged by tags) geolocation.

Any help on how I can prevent having to re-tag 2000+ photos? This might prevent me from making the switch now, as data preservation is key.

Hi Jeremy.

Welcome to dgrin and SmugMug.

At the moment, I don't have a method to geocode via the API. Let me chase up Don and see if we can implement that easily.

Cheers,

David

[jeremyandemily]

Originally Posted by devbobo

Hi Jeremy.

Welcome to dgrin and SmugMug.

At the moment, I don't have a method to geocode via the API. Let me chase up Don and see if we can implement that easily.

Cheers,

David

Any update on this? I'd love to jump into SmugMug head-first, but I'm a huge backpacker and preservation of my geodata is priority #1. Just checking in....

[voicelit]

Hi, new member - here. "photofur" on SmugMug.
Used SmuggLr to transfer my Flickr " sets " over to SmugMug.
The read out of progress on SmuggLr software ( FIREFOX) got hung up just near end. I have maybe 162 FLICkR "sets" and 5,032 photos. My recolection is that Smugglr was reading it as more photos than FlicKr says I have - probably not important . But with what SmuggLr was say ( on progrees bar ) was about 5 photos to go ( green bar all the way across ) , SmuggLr just stayed there for -like- an hour.
Eventually I closed the visable SmuggLr software ( progress bars ) to see what would happene.
Checked my SmuggLr site; lots of new galleries and photos, but some still showing " processing photo ".
Decided to try firing up SmuggLr agin, did for a second - but could see it was starting from the top , stopped it " cancel ."
It seems 90 some percent or more of the transfer is successful, but here and ther there are missing photos in some Galleries. A Gallery called " BOOTY " contains many photos ( 127 ) that were in FlicKr " sets ." I had'have no Photos unaffiliated with an "album" or " set ."
Wonder If I should just delete the SmuggLr / " other " Gallery, and just try again ?

Marty ( photofur )

[devbobo]

bump... version 1.0 release, now with geocoding data