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