Re: picasa webalbums to digikam

["Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen@gmail.com>]

2008/12/31 Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@cohens.org.il>:
>> Does the Picasa client have a built-in facility for downloading entire albums?
>
> Yes.
>
>>
>> No: You will have to script something
>> Yes: You will have to either reverse-engineer the API or google for
>> someone who has already done that.
>
> $ apt-cache search picasa
> kipi-plugins - image manipulation/handling plugins for KIPI aware programs
> python-gdata - Google Data Python client library
>
> kipi-plugins is due to the picasa export plugin.
> python-gdata:
>
>  pydoc gdata.photos.service
>
> shows some interesting stuff ('pydoc gdata.photos' mainly refers you to
> it for documentation)
>
> I didn't have time to play with it or find any useful usage of it for
> downloading, though.
>

Some quick googling led me to believe that the kipi plugin is export
only, as you seem to confirm. Try to see if the API is public and if
not, then scripting something to scrape from the web may be easier
that reverse engineering the API.

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Dotan Cohen

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