Aperture Pixelpost Plugin

[macroni]

Hi guys,

I've written a plugin for aperture to export your images to your pixelpost website.
This is just an early early version, and there will be some bugs in there. Contact me and i'll try and fix them as fast as possible.
Have fun, and if you feel like donating.. please do!

My site only runs 1.7.1, if some of you are using older versions, please let me know if it's compatible.

check it out @ http://www.macroni.be/index.php?x=plugin

[GeoS]

Some of our users were asking about such things so now they should be happy :)

PS Is there similar functionality inside Lightroom? If so then maybe think about another, similar addon (or one complex for Adobe software) :P

[fredxeric]

I dont know where to put the folder I dont have this path in my lightroom install directory

~/Library/Application Support/Aperture/Plug-ins/Export/.

[Dkozikowski]

That's because this is not a Lightroom plugin, it is for Aperture.

[macroni]

It's made with the Aperture SDK from apple, so it won't work with lightroom.
I'll have a look into lightroom plugins some time. (after my exams)

btw: I find aperture much better then lightroom, but you need fast machine..

[fredxeric]

That's because this is not a Lightroom plugin, it is for Aperture.




Oupssssss.........

:(

[salobaas]

Hi,

thanks for this plugin. Really convenient. However, would be nice if you could also show the categories that a photo can be added to.

Cheers, Fons.

[Finner]

It's made with the Aperture SDK from apple, so it won't work with lightroom.
I'll have a look into lightroom plugins some time. (after my exams)

btw: I find aperture much better then lightroom, but you need fast machine..

You also need a mac.. *g*

It would be nice if a lightroom export action could be written, although I don't know that this could offer any options for selecting categories, if something can't be modified through the web settings...

[Dkozikowski]

It would be nice if a lightroom export action could be written. . .

All I'm going to say is there is one on its way. It's not done by me so I don't know when it will be released. . .

[jaywilliams]

All I'm going to say is there is one on its way. It's not done by me so I don't know when it will be released. . .

Perhaps it will look something like this:
http://idisk.d3done.com/idisk/Lightroom_Export-20080127-004446.png

;)

[EcoSee]

I'm wondering if anyone is using the Aperture Plugin?

I have a trial version of Aperture and tried testing the plugin and it does not work for me. That may be because it is a trial version? I've tried many different things to no avail.

I tried the right password, the,n for the heck of it, the wrong password and it still looks like it is working until you get to the site. I tried variations of the url with and without a trailing slash. I run my blog in the root folder so I tried moving it to a subfolder to see if that was the problem... I tried changing the publish "Now" to publish at this specific time.... but I get the same old thing every time.

It appears to login, appears to upload... And No Picture!

Any ideas???

[macroni]

There are some problems with the password validation. I'm aware of that. It's very hard to check if the password is right/wrong. The url on the other hand should be validated, and the export will not continue if it is not valid.
Can you provide me with some more details of your setup? Aperture version/Pixelpost version/blog url ..

I'll try and solve the problems you have.

macroni

[jaywilliams]

There are some problems with the password validation. I'm aware of that. It's very hard to check if the password is right/wrong.

I know the feeling. In fact, with my Lightroom plugin, I simply created a new admin php file that works based off a "post key" rather than a username/password.

And if it's good, it returns the text "OK", otherwise it returns the error message.

So all the script needs to do is read the returned result and see if it == "OK".

[EcoSee]

I am using PP v1.7.1 and have a trial version of Aperture 1.5.6 I have no problems with the Adobe Lightroom plugin. It works great to the same blog I have attempted to use the aperture plugin with... My lightroom is version 1.3.1 so I am on the newest version of all three platforms. Just can't get the Aperture plugin to work and wonder if it is because it is a trial version. Is anyone else having trouble?

I wonder how hard it would be to adjust the code to have it work the way Jay describes in the previous post to this one??? That might help with the whole password thing. I'm not really sure what you could do to help as it is installed properly and on the newest version of both Aperture and Pixelpost? I'm on an iBook g4 running os x 10.4.10.

I did have triouble with Jay's old desktop uploader that limited file types and when we removed that restriction from the code base it uploaded just fine... so maybe it is the same issue. He said this was not a problem because pixelpost would only allow certain file types to be uploaded as images anyway so I couldn't accidentally upload a bad file.

Any thoughts???

[macroni]

And if it's good, it returns the text "OK", otherwise it returns the error message.

So all the script needs to do is read the returned result and see if it == "OK".

So if i understand it correctly, you parse the html file in cocoa?
how do you do that?

regards,

[jaywilliams]

Lightroom provides a mechanism for sending/receiving web data, so that was the easy part.

The easiest way for you to submit a "POST" request and load the output data, in my opinion, would be to use cURL. It's a command line app that can do just about anything.

I'd definitely check it out, and it comes standard with OSX.

That way you won't have to write a whole complex app.
http://curl.haxx.se/docs/

[tvalentine]

Macroni, I am running Leopard 10.5.2 and Aperture 2.0 and the plugin is not working. It goes thru the motion and opens up my webpage but nothing is there. Does the plugin or pixpelpost for that matter drop any log files that I can look at?

Thanks

[raulm21]

The plugin works fine, thanks macroni! I'll try it for a few days.

I'm thinking to move to Pixelpost, first I'm making an adjustements.

My fotolog: www.raulm21.com/fotolog/

My 'under construction' pixelpost fotolog: www.raulm21.com/pixelpost/

A question: What about remembering exporting data? lik blog url, Login, Version preset, etc.

Thanks again.

[floime]

Thank you macroni ! Your plugin worked really well with Aperture 2.1.1

I just uploaded my first pic with Aperture and your plugin on my blog.
It's just amazing easy - you have never to leave Aperture to post a pic :)

I'm really happy macroni :)

Maybe you could fix some things like that the nickname and pass are saved somewhere (or the blog url) so that i don't have to type it every time

MfG Florian

[raulm21]

I just moved to PP, manually. The wordpress to PP plugin doesn't works and I've exported manually 70 photos from Aperture.

Another suggestion, could you add a category field? It would be useful.

Thanks again.