posting to Pixelpost from Flickr? [Archive]

jrg

08-11-2005, 08:49 PM

(I kind of agree - I should point out that I'm merely asking on the user's behalf!)

I think they want to be able to highlight some of their photographs, in a nice looking Pixelpost-based system, and they'd like the option to click on Flickr's "add to blog" button to do that. (But it probably is technology for the sake of it.)

Your reply tells me all I needed to know, anyway!

babyben

08-11-2005, 10:07 PM

Or it could be that he's wanting to use flickrs bandwidth and not his own ;-)

blinking8s

08-11-2005, 10:21 PM

yeah, but for the price of a damain and hosting 99.99% of us can get WAY more than we can handle...its the reason why we asked eleven2 to create a discount deal for pixelpost users, cause you get a massive account for like $5/mo

jeremycherfas

08-12-2005, 04:50 AM

I can see the point of this. I have way more pictures on Flickr, and would indeed like to put individual images from flickr onto my PP site. They certainly are not in competition for me, except that they comete for my time, so a feature like this would be good for me.

raminia

08-12-2005, 05:29 AM

ok then instead of loging in the flickr login in PP and press the one botton upload image.

rockyrapier

08-13-2005, 02:38 AM

I'm thinking of going to flickr as an online storage medium for my photos. A nice safe place to store them (i.e. backups). I don't think PP is anything like flickr. PP lets you highlight specific ideas and images, while flickr is basically a gallery.

I'd just dump my many gigs of photos to flickr and be done with it. People can look them over, but PP would still exist as the artsy place to see my images.

cbtoday

08-15-2005, 10:04 PM

yeah, I agree. It's good to have flickr as a storage, and post the picture by linking it from flickr. Is that possible at all?

anela

08-16-2005, 12:10 AM

I would like to be able to post to PP from Flickr as well, but for only one thing...

Occassionally, while away from home, I will use my cell phone to email a photo to Flickr. If I use one of my two specialized addresses for this, it will automatically post to a blog, in my case, my personal WordPress blog. I then later, when I get home, download my image and save on my hard drive and then post in my photoblog which is PixelPost.

It's just something I've decided to do occassionaly (about once a week) with the better photos on my cell phone or something I snapped when I didn't have my regular camera, etc.

(See my cell phone is special because my two year old will smile and laugh at it, but not my regular camera. Strange little kid!)

EDIT:

I have tried this as well. There's a thing called Atom Endpoint that Flickr wants? Unfortunately, I don't know anything about Atom and I was not able to get it to work...

raminia

08-16-2005, 07:48 AM

to post by email you can use Pixelpost. (moblogging addon in pixelpost.org/v1)
about posting from flicker. I don't think so we go through it at this time. It is a fancy option but if you wanna do that blogger do this and wordpress.

mark

08-17-2005, 06:34 PM

Although, i wouldnt want to post a photo in PP that i have posted in flickr automatically (i do duplicate each photo on both sites though), I do want to say that flickr is pretty cool as a nice partner blog with PP. I use both and love both of them. Flickr has some pretty cool features that we just dont have here in PP. For example, you can add a "tag" (lets say Landscape) and then not only see all your photos that you have tagged as "landscape", but all other photos on flickr that have been tagged with "landscape". You can then add your photos to a Flickr pool. Its a great way to share and communicate about photography. If you dont already have a free flickr account, i definitely would recommend it.

I know PP can be customized to do some of the following, but not all of them.
Flickr allows you to see your most commented photo (PP can do it)
Flickr allows you to see your most viewed photo (not sure PP can do this)
Flickr also alllows people to mark a photo of yours a a "favorite" and then you can view what viewers think as their most "favorite".

It really is pretty cool....and i can see how some people would want to link up their flickr photos with PP easily.

I love my PP site for its ease of customiztion and the ability to have complete control over it...I wouldnt trade it for the world.....but flickr is a cool "partner" site.

jeremycherfas

08-18-2005, 04:33 AM

What he said!

raminia

08-18-2005, 04:41 AM

yeah but PP's mission is different. I have flickr account but I rarely use it. I'm also a member of Photoblink.com which is very extensive site for photographers. I know all these and I don't think that PP dev team can follow this approach. maybe some enthusiastic PP users make an admin addon for it inside 1.5 but sorry me and rest of the team are not on that page right now.

rekkid

08-18-2005, 05:22 PM

Flickr and PP are two different things IMO... apples and oranges really. Flickr is really a Social networking site with photographs as the theme. And its an online storage app.

Why would you want Flickr and PP?... well becuase they are two different apps. If PP had a RSS type of system built in that would show thumbs from anyone in your feed. And they you could click on that site and see his photos and then go to his RSS feed and see his feed's photos... etc... Then the two platforms would be similar and then you can argue why have one or the other.

I post everyday to my PP site... its my "portfolio" to some extent... while I also post to flickr... usually not the same images, so that I can share them with friends, and post them to LJ to share to other friends.

I would definately love to see an xmlrpc addon for pixelpost.

raminia

08-19-2005, 05:52 AM

I would definately love to see an xmlrpc addon for pixelpost.
to ping?

rekkid

08-19-2005, 03:27 PM

to ping?

no... would be a nice option so that ppl. could use other software to communicate with thier blog. blogging apps, or other online web services use xmlrpc to work together.

er16004

12-13-2005, 02:39 PM

Sorry to bring up an old topic, but I never saw a solution to the question asked: How can we get Flickr to work with PP?

Why? Here's my use for it: I'm now a father. I have no time for extra activities. I barely have time to take photos of my new baby, much less for downloading the photos, editing them, then uploading them to multiple services. I upload all my photos to Flickr, because that's where my friends and family want to go to view photos + print + use anything other service they offer. I also use Flickr because there's 3rd party apps where I can just drag-n-drop my photos into the app and click a button to upload. In short, Flickr saves me time at home.

At work is where I have a little breathing room to upload photos to PP. My photos aren't at work and I don't want to port them back-and-forth. I could drang-n-drop from Flickr to my desktop, then upload to PP, but why would I want to do that when Flickr already has a button made for blogging photos? In short, Flickr has met software packages halfway in order for users to save time.

Instead of asking why, let's ask how. If there's not a way for PP to work with Flickr, then I might have to consider setting up something like WordPress to handle this process. It's not a threat, I just want to save more time... which is what PP did for me in the first place vs. any other package or manual HTML.

I love PP + it's community. I like the fact there's software geared for exactly what I wanted with sharing photos when I starte my photoblog earlier this year. However, at that time, I wasn't using Flickr as much and I didn't see the full potential. Now, I must take a step back and evaluate how I'm working and why I'm doubling work in some areas.

So, anybody have any ideas for using Flickr with PixelPost?

tinyblob

12-13-2005, 02:45 PM

Instead of asking why, let's ask how. If there's not a way for PP to work with Flickr, then I might have to consider setting up something like WordPress to handle this process.
Whoa there.. Lets not do anything drastic ;) Lemme go have a look..

tinyblob

12-13-2005, 02:52 PM

Okay, i can make an admin addon in pixelpost v1.5 which uploads your images to flickr after you upload them to pixelpost..
But we can't get flickr to upload them to pixelpost unless we emulating an existing weblog system (don't really want to), or contact Flickr and ask them to add us to the list. The second option means building support into the core of Pixelpost, and working directly with Flickr.
I'm going to a conference in February where one of the Flickr guys is talking, i'll chat to him about it. But before then, who knows.
Bottom line is..
Pixelpost -> Flickr = no problem.
Flickr -> Pixelpost = needs further investigation.

er16004

12-13-2005, 03:07 PM

Looking further into it would be great. I'm not making demands or threats, just suggestions. I know the PP team works very hard, especially since it's on a volunteer basis. I appreciate everything that's been done, in fact, I think everyone's done a fantastic job.

My habits and lifestyle has changed, though, so I have to look at tools that better fit my needs.

Anyway, thanks for the response and the interest into pursuing this.

jeremycherfas

12-13-2005, 04:39 PM

I have long wanted a similar thing, not because of new babies but general lack of time. I use ecto a lot to post to my wordPress blog, and it works, also for loading pictures. I don't know enough about the nuts and bolts, but if PixelPost could be adapted -- not in a hurry, but in the next big version -- to use one of the standard blogging APIs then it would enable Flickr users to post to Pixelpost, and ecto users too, and that might (?) be a good thing.

tinyblob

12-13-2005, 05:01 PM

I've been tossing around the idea of Pixelpost2, which will be the BIG release that the dev team will be happy with. A "standard" API is something we'll look into, but i can't make any promises ;)
If nothing else, i'm sure i can accomplish an emulation using Addons.. we'll see.

GeoS

12-13-2005, 05:06 PM

We were talking about it. It is in oposit to PixelPost idea and that is why we dont want to implement it into our software.
If there is other user (not Dev team member) who can do it - please make it. We see that few PP users demand such addon/opportunity.

blinking8s

12-14-2005, 02:04 AM

to me, flickr is the enemy...sorta...lol

jeremycherfas

12-14-2005, 04:23 AM

I can sympathise with the developers on this one, and even with Blinking8, a bit. But flickr is not the enemy. Flickr is for sharing images. The groups and everything are fun too. But I have absolutely no control over how my picture looks in Flickr. It's like walking into a photo editor with a box of prints and having her stick them on the wall or her desk with a bunch of other stuff to look at them. It isn't great, but you gotta do it. PixelPost is my gallery, where stuff looks the way I want it to look. I'll keep using both, I'm sure, but it would be really nice to be able to post from Flickr to Pxelpost easily, that's all.

tinyblob

12-14-2005, 09:29 AM

I'm all for syndicating data.
As a web developer it's pretty much my job. I believe in standards, i believe in cross platform compatibility, i believe in tags, i believe in API, i believe in open source.
If i can interact with other developers at a code level, i'd love to. As long as it does not change the purpose of my software.

I personally stopped using flickr months ago, for personal reasons, but i will take a look at their API at some point.

The flickr "blog this" function doesn't upload your images to another blog, rather, it creates an entry in the blog linking to the photo so that you can write about it. Flickr is pretty much just an online storage facility, with lots of nice toys to let you share your photos with other people.

If you want an addon for Pixelpost that emails out your image to your Flickr moblogging address after you upload it. No problems, i'll sort one out in Pixelpost v1.5. But it's going to be pretty difficult to do this in the opposite direction.

jeremycherfas

12-14-2005, 09:48 AM

Understood. And I will continue to use Flickr just as you say, as a big, open drawer full of photos. And PP will continue to be my gallery (which is need of a quick vaccuuming and paint job by now.)

tinyblob

12-14-2005, 09:56 AM

i do think we should investigate the notion of blogging to Pixelpost with Ecto (and similar) though.
i will have a look when i've had more than three hours sleep.

se.nsuo.us

12-21-2005, 11:17 AM

yeah, I agree. It's good to have flickr as a storage, and post the picture by linking it from flickr. Is that possible at all?
Looks like some one has hacked something similar http://flickr.com/groups/api/discuss/138092/ so it is possible but then most likely it will have to be built from scratch

tinyblob

12-21-2005, 11:25 AM

if you want to use flickr as storage - i can do that no problem.
i wouldn't do it unless there was demand, because as far as i'm concerned it's "icky".

eon

12-21-2005, 12:50 PM

to me, flickr is the enemy...sorta...lol
If you can, use your enemy ;). That's better than be against it.

tinyblob

12-23-2005, 08:47 PM

this CAN be done through the flickr API now.

raminia

12-23-2005, 10:54 PM

If you can, use your enemy ;). That's better than be against it.
cool!

I tried this API thing but had problems doing that with my ISP. I didn't go for it since I had no use in it. If someone with scripting knowledge and time could do this, it would be great.

There was similar words about enemey and ... "if you someone is powerful then beat him or make a friend out of him!" :D

randomlinh

02-14-2006, 02:05 AM

to bump an old thread... i want to post from flickr to pixelpost as well. I use flickr as most have said here... a giant photo drawer. I'd like to highlight something, hence the want to post to pixelpost.

alternatively, i suppose if you could upload files to pixelpost via a direct link to an image that might work. I hate to say it, but I have considered using wordpress... but I just don't want to make a new theme... the one I currently have for pixelpost I like.

se.nsuo.us

02-14-2006, 03:50 AM

to bump an old thread... i want to post from flickr to pixelpost
While the reverse can be easily done that is pixelpost -> flickr

I can't see how you can selectively post to pixelpost... ummm may be you can create a set on flickr, I also suggest you take a look at fGallery it use to be at
http://david.rencher.us/index/fGallery/ it is a php script to put your flickr photos in a gallery on your own site

kvdv

03-15-2006, 09:31 AM

I'm very much interested too. Dumping all photos for free at Flickr, but only 'link' the best ones to your PP photoblog seems like a great idea. Flickr takes care of the storage and backup and PP takes care of the personal customized presentation. Is it possible?

blinking8s

03-15-2006, 05:58 PM

well, dumping to flickr for free isnt free if you are paying to host pixelpost elsewhere, and a $5 account can store lord knows how many 100kb images

i dont think its possible to select images from flickr to be pulled over, maybe with a set as se.nsou.us said, but I just dont know...

kvdv

03-16-2006, 09:18 AM

I guess I'm paying way too much then with my current hoster. I've got 150mb webspace for 7usd per month. Time for a change maybe? :-)

blinking8s

03-16-2006, 10:52 AM

pixelpost users get a discount at http://www.eleven2.com who have been very supportive of our community. I've hosted with them for a while now, very good service. There is even a question and support section here in the forum that their staff checks regularly.

http://forum.pixelpost.org/showthread.php?t=1091 for details

toulcaz31

06-01-2006, 03:35 AM

While the reverse can be easily done that is pixelpost -> flickr

I can't see how you can selectively post to pixelpost... ummm may be you can create a set on flickr, I also suggest you take a look at fGallery it use to be at
http://david.rencher.us/index/fGallery/ it is a php script to put your flickr photos in a gallery on your own site

fgallery is interesting but still quite difficult to setup for people and depends on some php libraries to be installed on server.
I would recommend to have a look on Falbum (http://www.randombyte.net/blog/projects/falbum/), which is a plugin for wordpress. This plugin is really awesome. It displays all flickr pictures but also enables you to edit their comments from your blog.
i am trying it there (http://240plan.ovh.net/~mindtrot/photoblog/show/recent/).

I really really like Pixelpost and I think the developpers did a great job with it. However the autarky concept some are defending does not satisfy my needs. That's a pity and I hope you are not taking too many risks by adopting this strategy.

Anyway, I will keep looking at PixelPost evolution. We never know :)

Ben

01-12-2008, 02:22 AM

" While the reverse can be easily done that is pixelpost -> flickr "

How do you do this. I'd like to post photo on my photoblog and have the same photo go to my flikr account and maybe even facebook lol!

cheers
Ben
http://www.bengeldreich.com/

dakwegmo

01-12-2008, 02:34 AM

There's an addon, check the extend section. Try something crazy like doing a search for "flickr".

Ben

01-12-2008, 09:11 AM

I did how do you think I found this thread. I read the thread an nothinf was mentioned of a addon. Regardless thanks for your help.

Dennis

01-12-2008, 09:49 AM

The extend section can be found here: http://www.pixelpost.org/extend/

And it is not the forums. Great job you searched the forum though, not many people do that so we keep answering the same questions over and over. Anyway, here is the link to the addon: http://www.pixelpost.org/extend/addons/flickr-image-upload-by-email/

luan

01-20-2008, 01:39 PM

Does it work in 1.7? Doesn't seem to work on my site.... installs okay, but won't let me input my email.

dakwegmo

01-24-2008, 12:47 AM

It does work in 1.7. What happens when you try to input your email?

luan

01-24-2008, 01:01 AM

Nothing. The page refreshes when I click the button back to what it was originally. when I try to submit photos, it says that there are errors. My installation of pixel post 1.7.1 is the stock standard one, no custom changes.

dakwegmo

01-24-2008, 01:42 AM

Try this version of the addon: http://www.invisiblegreen.com/admin_flickrpost.zip

chriscom

02-05-2008, 06:14 PM

hi all

I've been a bit toying with a flickr -> pixelpost solution. It works if you know how to handle it, but the code is still a big mess and needs to be sorted out. The whole thing is based phpflickr and requires you to manually obtain a flickr api key.

Basically the whole thing works with tags: one tag, say "pp:import", indicates that the picture should be downloaded to pixelpost, other tags consist of a prefix and a category (pp%cat).

Maybe an example is easier to understand: you add "pp:import", "pp%snow", "pp%mountain", "one", "two" as tags to your flickr picture. The script downloads all pictures from flickr that have the "pp:import" tag to pixelpost. The script now checks if the categories "snow" and "mountain" exist and adds the picture to this category. If a category does not exist it is created. All other tags, in this case "one" and "two" are added as tags to pixelpost.
Currently the script must be started manually or might be triggered by a cron job. Of course something else could be implemented.

Issues:

I'm not a programmer, so the code might be messy
Still no pixelpost variable import
admin interface for changing settings (tags, prefixes) is not finished
Currently no import of geodata if GoogleMap addon is present
Installation takes some time as phpflickr needs to be installed and api key must be obtained (also not that ok for usability)

I'm happy to post the (sorted out) code and a short explanation somewhere, but as I'm in a hurry writing this, it might not be before next week.

chriscom

02-22-2008, 07:38 PM

Sorry for the delay, but I finally found the time to work on syncr and made it public available (http://www.trivialview.ch/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/syncr.zip).
There's still a fair number of issues, but to show how it might work it'll do. Please read the readme.

I'm aware that the whole phpflickr procedure is very bad described. It's been a while since I set it up.....

chriscom

03-02-2008, 12:47 PM

befamao

03-02-2008, 08:08 PM

I apologize for having a bit of a monologue here, but after adding some more features I put the addon, now called importr, to Pixelpost.org's extend section (http://www.pixelpost.org/extend/addons/importr-import-photos-from-flickr-to-pixelpost/).

Thanks a lot for this addon !
The installation was good (after a lot of reads ! me and english...)
but ! when you say :
"If you want to start an import you need to run http://yoursite.com/path_to_pp/addons/importr/importr.php manually
or you could make a cron job that runs the script everyday at a specific time."
i try to run the link but it don't work
and i don't know how make a cron job.

Do you know the mystake i did ?

(sorry for my poor english)

chriscom

03-03-2008, 06:23 AM

Hi
What do you mean that it does not work? Do you get an error message or any other message?

befamao

03-03-2008, 08:54 AM

Aloha !
Thanks for answer.

I run
http://xxxx.com/addons/importr/importr.php and i have a white page anything else, non error message...

Thanks

chriscom

03-03-2008, 03:39 PM

There was an error in the db. The new version (0.65) should work now. Thanks for your help.

befamao

03-03-2008, 04:05 PM

Thanks for your job !!

It's work good now.

phosy

04-12-2008, 12:13 AM

Helo chriscom

Thank you for your work. I have installed in my new pixelpost photoblog, but I've found some things that make me to modify the addon

1.- In my case, the username is an integer in the table on the DB, but my username is an string. Any idea? I have modified the script to put the username hardcoded by now

2.- It is only possible to get EXIF data if you import the original file from flickr. This is because flickr doesnt put the EXIF data to the reduced sized files. Because you use the exif library of pixelpost, the data is empty. I have modified the addon to take the EXIF data directly from phpflickr. In fact, your code read the EXIF from flickr but it doesn't use it anyway. When I clean the code, I will pass to you if you are interested.

chriscom

04-12-2008, 04:22 PM

Hi

Thanks for the information.

1. v0.6 had the problem that accidentally the username field in the db was of the int type and not varchar. v0.65 fixed this, so I really don't know what it could be.

2. I admit that I only tested with original files. As such I've never realised that I forgot to do something with flickr's EXIF date (I remember getting it :)). I'd like to get your modification and publish it. So others can benefit from it.

Thanks!
chris

phosy

04-12-2008, 08:33 PM

I will check that I have 0.65 and not 0.60 :)

Anyway, I am trying to do other kinds of modifications (including flickr URL on description for example, taking all EXIF data from flickr (actually I only take aperture, speed and ISO) and I will try to see if it is possible to check if the choosen size is availabe or not.

When I have something more completed I will pass it to you for verification and making it public available of course :)

EDIT. I have checked it and I have download v0.60 instead of 0.65. I don't know what happened.

phosy

04-15-2008, 12:36 AM

Ok. Things are going well.

I have made some other modifications and now it is possible to check previously if the selected size on preferences exists or not. If it exists, the importr.php will download the choosen size, but if not, it will download the original size, because in fact the original will be smaller than selected size. the thing is that importr will download a valid file in any case.

I was able to put the URL in the body (quite easy) but I don't know how to link it to the theme is selected on the photoblog. It is something to check.

I need still some day to clean up the code, and check the exif import from flickr and not to use it if we can extract the exif from the downloaded picture.

calpj

04-18-2008, 12:20 PM

chriscom, thanks for your efforts pulling this together, I'm currently having hosting issues preventing me uploading new images but have been trying to get importr working to see if I can at least stay active but am having a problem...

I've followed the installation to the letter, have the callback in Flickr set to auth.php but when calling getToken.php seem to get a cyclical redirection that results in both Firefox and IE reporting a page cannot be displayed error, do you have any clues that may help please?

I'm using PP 1.7.1 and Importr 0.65

Thanks,
Paul

chriscom

04-22-2008, 05:37 PM

Hmm, I have to admit that I really don't know what it could be. As these two scripts are from the phpflickr package you might check:

PHPflickr auth (http://phpflickr.com/docs/?page=auth)

Hope that helps.

ysalis

04-09-2009, 08:54 AM

Hello,
I have pixelpost 1.7.1 and i try to install importr but I obtain this message :

Warning: phpFlickr::require_once(HTTP/Request.php) [function.phpFlickr-require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /mnt/138/sda/9/c/ysalis/pixelpost/addons/importr/phpFlickr.php on line 89

Fatal error: phpFlickr::require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'HTTP/Request.php' (include_path='/mnt/138/sda/9/c/ysalis/include:.:/usr/php5/lib/php') in /mnt/138/sda/9/c/ysalis/pixelpost/addons/importr/phpFlickr.php on line 89

have you any idea ?

Excuse my poor english

thx