Create offline browseable Galleries from flickr photos

This package started out as a backup script I ran regularly to recover my photos stored on flickr.

./backup.py --cfg=/path/to/config

will crawl flickr for all sets and photos within sets in one account.

As a first extension, I created html pages to browse the backup.

Once the backup grew too big to fit on one cd, I had to come up with some scripts to create configurable portions of the backup. This is what this software does.

./gallery.py --cfg=/path/to/config --tags=skitour+karwendel --output=/tmp/skitour

will select all sets having at least one photo tagged with both "skitour" and "karwendel", copy the relevant photos to /tmp/skitour, and create pages to navigate the gallery.

Requirements

The scripts require python >= 2.5, sqlalchemy >= 0.4 and one of the following xslt processors (to create galleries from the backup):

• 4Suite XML
• lxml
• xsltproc via system call

Note: The backup script does not require an xslt processor.

You need a flickr api key to use the flickr api client.

Installation

Currently, you may only run the scripts from a svn checkout of the repository.

Configuration

The configuration file should look as follows:

[system]
base_dir=/path/to/backup/dir
sqlite_db=/path/to/sqlite_db

[flickr]
user_name=
user_id=
api_key=
email=
password=

Output

A screenshot of a page for a flickr set can be found here.

Thanx

The following libraries come bundled with this package:

• Jason Orendorff's path library,
• James Clarke's flickr API client,
• Thomas Fuchs' script.aculo.us,
• Sam Stephenson's Prototype JavaScript framework,
• Lokesh Dhakar's Lightbox v2.02,
• Dusty Davidson's photonotes.