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Sync/backup your photos to flickr easily

Project description

flickrsmartsync is a tool you can use to easily sync up or down your photos in a drive/folder to flickr since now it has a free 1TB storage you can probably sync all your photo collection.

Install

Simply run the following:

$ python setup.py install

or PyPi:

$ pip install flickrsmartsync

Example Usage

Both run from source and command line have same parameters:

start uploading all photos/videos under that folder
$ flickrsmartsync
ignore videos for others use --help
$ flickrsmartsync --ignore-videos

start downloading all photos on flickr to that folder
$ flickrsmartsync --download .

start downloading all paths starting with that path
$ flickrsmartsync --download 2008/2008-01-01

Generate custom set titles from YEAR/MONTH/DAY folder hierarchy:
$  flickrsmartsync --custom-set='(?:.*)((?:19|20)\d{2})/(\d{2})/(\d{2})' --custom-set-builder '{0}-{1}-{2}'

for direct python access
$ python flickrsmartsync

Change log

0.2.02 (2017-02-11)
  • added –fix-missing-description option (thanks jruusu)

  • added –dry-run option (thanks jruusu)

0.2.01 (2015-02-17)
  • added –custom-set-debug for testing custom sets output

  • added –ignore-ext comma separated extensions to ignore

0.2.00 (2015-02-15)
  • Refactor code into sync, local and remote classes

  • Add test cases that do a limited test of each class in isolation

  • Add a sync-from=all command line option that allows a download of any remote file not on local, and upload of any local file not on remote as discussed in #22

  • Add retries on uploads and downloads

  • Add a file extension on download if one doesn’t exist

  • Incorporate pull request #32 which fixes #31 with slight changes

  • Thanks thomascobb

0.1.18 (2014-11-14)
  • browser-less authentication

0.1.17 (2014-08-12)
  • allow filtering files to upload by IPTC keyword (thanks ricardokirkner)

  • updated flickrapi 1.4.4

0.1.16 (2014-06-30)
  • flickr api changes use https

0.1.15 (2014-05-30)
  • monitor folder support (–monitor)

0.1.14.3 (2014-05-18)
  • encoding bug

0.1.14.2 (2014-04-15)
  • send script output to syslog for headless convience (thanks dahlb)

0.1.14 (2014-02-25)
  • added –starts-with param

  • added –version param

  • bug fix not uploading files properly

0.1.12 (2014-02-15)
  • added custom set title

  • character encoding bugs

  • skip failures

0.1.11 (2013-07-09)

  • added mts video

  • added folder utf8 encoding to avoid dups

  • added sorting for each folders

0.1.10 (2013-07-07)

  • sorted photo sets

  • ignore files > 1gb

0.1.9 (2013-06-28)

  • added –sync-path param

0.1.8 (2013-06-25)

  • ignore hidden folders/folders

  • added video support

  • added new params for skipping video/images

0.1.7 (2013-06-15)

  • added run from source

0.1 (2013-06-13)

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