This shell script downloads all photos from a Picasaweb album in full resolution. This is a minimalistic command line tool. It may be useful for those who do not use Windows version of Picasa and cannot download albums with one click.

Usage:
download-picasa-album [URL-of-Album-RSS|File-with-Album-RSS]

You may give either URL of the RSS feed (in this case the feed is downloaded automatically) or the file with the feed itself. You will likely need to quote URL when you invoke the script. The images are downloaded to the current directory.

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This script depends on xmlstarlet to parse XML, wget to download files, awk, perl and iconv are required to convert file names to UTF8 encoding. You may need to add an extra conversion if you use non-UTF8 locale.

This script was inspired by this blog post (in Russian).