NAME¶
flickr_upload - Upload photos to "flickr.com"
SYNOPSIS¶
flickr_upload [--auth] --auth_token <auth_token> [--title <title>]
[--description description] [--public <0|1>] [--friend <0|1>]
[--family <0|1>] [--tag <tag>] [--option key=value] [--progress]
<photos...>
DESCRIPTION¶
Batch image uploader for the Flickr.com service.
flickr_upload may also be useful for generating authentication tokens against
other API keys/secrets (i.e. for embedding in scripts).
OPTIONS¶
- --auth
- The "--auth" flag will cause flickr_upload to
generate an authentication token against it's API key and secret (or, if
you want, your own specific key and secret). This process requires the
caller to have a browser handy so they can cut and paste a url. The
resulting token should be kept somewhere like "~/.flickrrc"
since it's necessary for actually uploading images.
- --auth_token <auth_token>
- Authentication token. You must get an authentication
token using "--auth" before you can upload images. See the
EXAMPLES section.
- --title <title>
- Title to use on all the images. Optional.
- --description <description>
- Description to use on all the images. Optional.
- --public <0|1>
- Override the default "is_public" access control.
Optional.
- --friend <0|1>
- Override the default "is_friend" access control.
Optional.
- --family <0|1>
- Override the default "is_family" access control.
Optional.
- --tag <tag>
- Images are tagged with "tag". Multiple
"--tag" options can be given, or you can just put them all into
a single space-separated list. If you want to define a tag with spaces,
the quotes have to be part of the tag itself. The following works in bash:
flickr_upload --tag='"tag one"' --tag='"tag two"' image.jpg
- --option key=value
- Flickr periodically adds new features to the uploading API,
and these are almost always implemented as new key/value pairs. Rather
than waiting for a new Flickr::Upload release, you can specify any of the
upload API's optional arguments using "--option".
flick_upload --option content_type=1 --tag='cats' two_cats.jpg
You may also use "--option" rather than flickr_upload's
command-line options:
flickr_upload --option is_public=1 --option title='cats' two_cats.jpg
While Flickr may add new options at any time (see
<http://flickr.com/services/api/upload.api.html> for the most
up-to-date list), currently known options include:
- --option safety_level=<1|2|3>
- Override the default "safety_level" notation. Set
to 1 for Safe, 2 for Moderate, or 3 for Restricted. Refer to
<http://www.flickr.com/help/filters/>.
- --option content_type=<1|2|3>
- Override the default "content_type" notation. Set
to 1 for Photo, 2 for Screenshot, or 3 for Art/Illustration. Refer to
<http://www.flickr.com/help/filters/>.
- --option hidden=<1|2>
- Override the default "hidden" notation. Set to 1
to keep the photo in global search results, 2 to hide from public
earches.
Note that options unknown to Flickr will result in undefined behaviour.
- --check
- Checks the authentication token via the
flickr.auth.checkToken API call. This can be used to verify API keys and
credentials without trying to upload an image. The output is the raw
results of the API call.
- --progress
- Display a progress bar for each upload with
Term::ProgressBar. That optional module will have to be installed on the
system.
- --key <api_key>
- --secret <secret>
- Your own API key and secret. This is useful if you want to
use flickr_upload in auth mode as a token generator. You need both
"key" and "secret". Both "key" and
"secret" can be placed in "~/.flickrrc", allowing to
mix flickr_upload with your own scripts using the same API key and
authentication token. Getting your own API key and secret is encouraged if
you're tying flickr_upload to some automated process.
Note that if you do get an authentication token against your own API key and
secret, you'll need to specify the key and secret along with the token
when uploading images. The default flickr_upload API key and token won't
work in that case.
- <photos...>
- List of photos to upload. Uploading stops as soon as a
failure is detected during the upload. The script exit code will indicate
the number of images on the command line that were not uploaded. For each
uploaded image, a Flickr URL will be generated. flickr_upload uses
asynchronous uploading so while the image is usually transferred fairly
quickly, it might take a while before it's actually available to users.
flickr_upload will wait around for that to complete, but be aware that
delays of upwards of thirty minutes have (rarely) been know to occur.
EXAMPLES¶
First, you need to get an authentication token. This is a requirement driven by
how Flickr manages third-party applications:
cpb@earth:~$ flickr_upload --auth
1. Enter the following URL into your browser
http://flickr.com/services/auth?api_sig=<...>&frob=<...>&perms=write&api_key=<...>
2. Follow the instructions on the web page
3. Hit <Enter> when finished.
Your authentication token for this application is
<token>
Unless you like typing long numbers on the command-line, you should keep the
"<token"> somewhere handy, like a configuration file:
echo auth_token=<token> >~/.flickrrc
Uploading a bunch of images is then as easy as:
flickr_upload --tag 'dog' 'kernel in a window.jpg' 'sad in sunbeam.jpg'
CONFIGURATION¶
To avoid having to remember authentication tokens and such (or have them show up
in the process table listings), default values will be read from
"$HOME/.flickrrc" if it exists. Any field defined there can, of
course, be overridden on the command line. For example:
# my config at $HOME/.flickrrc
auth_token=334455
is_public=0
is_friend=1
is_family=1
Note, however, that these defaults override the defaults you've assigned in your
Flickr profile. You may want to do all that stuff in one place.
BUGS¶
Error handling could be better.
AUTHOR¶
Christophe Beauregard, cpb@cpan.org.
SEE ALSO¶
flickr.com
Flickr::Upload
<
http://flickr.com/services/api/>
<
http://www.flickr.com/help/filters/>