super-cooper

I finally got done sorting my 2008 photos this morning so I can start putting Christmas gifts together with them and needed to upload about 280 pictures to Shutterfly, where I have been getting prints since about 1999. Of course I could do this with their uploader, but that would be quite lame now, wouldn’t it, considering I could use Python to do it. Using the code below, the IPTCInfo module and Jeremy Slater’s very cool shutterfly module he wrote for the GNOME Conduit Project , I can iterate through my entire 2008 photo directory, look for my photos tagged for upload, and upload them to a specific album on Shutterfly. Sweet!

1. from IPTC import IPTCInfo
2. import sys, os, shutterfly
3.  
4. class ShutterflyUploadr:
5.  
6. def __init__(self):
7. pass
8.  
9. def grab_new_images( self ):
10. """ Recurses thru directories and looks for images to upload. I only want to upload my '5-star' images, so we scan the IPTC tags for 'r5', my way of tagging my pics I really like (usually get prints of r5s) """
11. images = []
12. for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk('/users/chad/pictures/2008'):
13. for f in filenames :
14. # Grab IPTC keywords
15. info = IPTCInfo(os.path.join(dirpath, f))
16. # Is it a 5-star photo?
17. if 'r5' in info.keywords:
18. ext = f.lower().split(".")[-1]
19. if ( ext == "jpg" ):
20. images.append( os.path.normpath( dirpath + "/" + f ) )
21. images.sort()
22. return images
23.  
24. def upload( self ):
25. """ Upload images to Shutterfly """
26. user = 'your_user_name'
27. pwd = 'your_password'
28. sfly = shutterfly.Shutterfly(user,pwd)
29. # Get an existing album
30. album = sfly.getAlbums()['Album_Name']
31. image_list = self.grab_new_images()
32. for image in image_list:
33. album.uploadPhoto(image, 'image/jpeg', os.path.basename(image))
34.  
35. if __name__ == '__main__':
36.  
37. sfu = ShutterflyUploadr()
38. sfu.upload()
39. Download this code: shutterflyuploadr.txt