Originally Posted by wellman I think the best way to say it is that users of AlbumFetcher will have the exact same permissions as viewers of your SmugMug site. There are different types of SmugMug passwords: Guest login: Allows others to make changes to your SM site. Folks with a guest login would be able to download anything via AlbumFetcher. Site-wide login: Allows viewers to enter a single passwords and gain view access to the site. AF users with this password would be able to get any galleries except those further protected with a... Gallery password: Gallery-specific password. AF users would have to have this password to get a specific gallery. Hope that's clear as mud.

Thanks, Greg. Appreciate your reply.

This problem was originally posted on this Smugmug Support thread without resolution so I am also posting here, since it is probably related to AlbumFetcher 0.3.3 embedded captions. The © symbol in captions gets transposed when uploaded back to Smugmug.

As an additional test, I used my single photo gallery Little Things Often Missed to download/upload using AlbumFetcher 0.3.3

• First, with embed ITCP data checked, I downloaded photo "...018a.jpg" to my PC, modified it & saved it as "...018b.jpg" (infrared), and uploaded it to same gallery.
• Then, with embed ITCP data unchecked, I downloaded "...018a.jpg again, modified and saved it as "...018c.jpg (daguerreotype), and uploaded to same gallery.
• 018a and 018b had same photo captions with a visible "©" symbol when viewing gallery photos. The difference is that the © symbol in the 018b caption became "©" in edit mode. 018c, of course, had blank caption.
• The problem: in SLIDESHOW, the "©" was displayed as "©" for the 018b photo, not a © symbol.

It seems the way the ITCP embedded caption data is displayed in Slideshow changed from the download to the upload. In another gallery, although I had deleted a caption, it still appeared in Slideshow. Hope this info may be of some use. I was hoping to use AlbumFetcher as an handy tool to download, mod, and upload a gallery photo, keeping the captions/keywords intact. Please keep me advised.

I'm trying to download a gallery and it aborts when it gets part way through the download. What do you recommend? I'm using Vista, is that a problem?

Originally Posted by wellman I'm pleased to announce the release of AlbumFetcher! AlbumFetcher is a little pet project of mine which I've decided to make freely available to the SmugMug community. I've received amazing amounts of help (and ideas) through these forums, and this my way of saying thanks. It's a simple little app that serves two main functions: 1. Download one or many SmugMug galleries at once 2. Embed captions and keywords into your downloaded images' IPTC headers AlbumFetcher should run on Win2000, WinXP and above. It has been reported to run under Wine on Linux and through Parallels on a Mac. It's a single file, so it's easily portable and doesn't need to be installed. AlbumFetcher is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This DGrin thread will be the project's home page. Feedback is extremely appreciated, and if there are bugs and/or other issues (as there always are), please let me know here. This is a hobby, so I can't hope to live up to SmugMug's standard of customer service, but I will try to help you out if you're having an issue with the software. One word of caution - beware of the total number of bytes you download. You could easily run up against your monthly bandwith limit. Again, this is yours to use forever for free. However, if you're a fan of my little app and feel so inclined, you can send me the electronic equivalent of the adult beverage of your choice here. Enjoy! -Greg Current version: v0.3.3 - Application | Source How Does it Work? Download AlbumFetcher (zip file) with the link above. Use WinZip or your favorite zip program to extract AlbumFetcher.exe (the program) to the folder of your choice (maybe the desktop). Double-click the AlbumFetcher program icon. If you're an account owner: In the top-right corner, enter your SmugMug ID and password. If you're a guest: Switch the login type selector to Guest. Then enter the SmugMug ID of the account you'd like to work with. You'll only have access to listed public galleries. (SmugMug ID means either your email address which is registered with SmugMug or the yourname part of yourname.smugmug.com. Your ID and password go directly to SmugMug; there's nobody listening in between.) Click List Albums. A listing of all your albums will appear. In the Download Options box (on the right), pick a folder to save albums to. Also pick the image sizes and other options as you wish. Click the list to select albums for download. Use Ctrl-clicking or Shift-clicking to select more than one. Click Fetch Albums. AlbumFetcher will now download your requested albums at the size you specified. Have a tasty beverage. UPDATE, Nov 14 2006: I've incorporated some of Pat Kane's requests and some improvements of my own into v0.2. New features include: Datetime stamp for each line in log file Files with same original name are now handled successfully (an underscore is prepended to the second file's name). Users can optionally skip over previously downloaded images (helpful when a download fails and you want to start over, but not re-download all the successful images). Category/subcategory info is shown as a field in the list control. A thumbnail of the image currently being downloaded is displayed. Total time statistics are recorded when a job is completed successfully. MD5 hashes are now compared. Files that fail the comparison are left alone, but a note is made in the log file. Again, enjoy! -Greg UPDATE, Nov 16 2006: Pat Kane pointed out a bug in the folder selector, which is now fixed. Current version is now 0.2.1. Thanks, Pat! UPDATE, Jan 11 2008: I'm pleased to announce the release of AlbumFetcher v0.3. There are several improvements in this release. Read on for details. Multiple login options - Users may now login to SmugMug as account owner, guest, or guest with site password. If you're uncomfortable with other people being able to bulk-download your images, set your external linking option (in gallery customization) to "No." Album-level password support - Guests may download password-protected galleries (with the proper password of course). Selectable image size for download - Choose which size you want! AlbumFetcher will find the next largest available if logged in as guest and requested size is not available. Video support - Choose which size you want! AlbumFetcher will find the next largest available if logged in as guest and requested size is not available. Support is also included for legacy mpeg-1 videos. As inspired by SmugMug, AlbumFetcher is stretchy! No more runtime errors - (Fingers crossed.) AlbumFetcher has essentially been completely rewritten. I found a few scenarios that caused the app to crash during my development process, and they've been eliminated. I've successfully downloaded thousands of images while testing. Let me know if you still have runtime problems. UPDATE, Jan 12 2008: Scott Walter pointed out a bug which caused the app to crash when downloading GIFs, which is now fixed. Current version is now 0.3.1. Thanks, Scott! UPDATE, Jan 29 2008: A few people were having similar issues. Basically AlbumFetcher was bombing out if it tried to download an image which was missing (for whatever rare reason) on SmugMug. This is now handled more gracefully in new Version 0.3.2 (link above) - AlbumFetcher will stop the download and report the error (instead of crashing). UPDATE, Mar 3 2008: AlbumFetcher is now compatible with SmugMug's security changes (use of keys). Again, enjoy! -Greg

I'm seeing some errors that I've never seen before. Possibly related to the changes smugmug made this past week to the login screen and interstitial page bypass?

12/14/2008 11:13:56 AM: AlbumFetcher start
12/14/2008 11:14:06 AM: Logging in user xxx@xxx.com...
12/14/2008 11:14:06 AM: Start REST transaction.
12/14/2008 11:14:07 AM: Expect file of size 102 bytes.
12/14/2008 11:14:07 AM: Received file of size 102 bytes.
12/14/2008 11:14:07 AM: REST transaction successful.
12/14/2008 11:14:07 AM: Login for user xxx@xxx.com successful.
12/14/2008 11:14:07 AM: SessionID extraction failed. Aborting.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Mike

Originally Posted by mlee I'm seeing some errors that I've never seen before. Possibly related to the changes smugmug made this past week to the login screen and interstitial page bypass? 12/14/2008 11:13:56 AM: AlbumFetcher start 12/14/2008 11:14:06 AM: Logging in user xxx@xxx.com... 12/14/2008 11:14:06 AM: Start REST transaction. 12/14/2008 11:14:07 AM: Expect file of size 102 bytes. 12/14/2008 11:14:07 AM: Received file of size 102 bytes. 12/14/2008 11:14:07 AM: REST transaction successful. 12/14/2008 11:14:07 AM: Login for user xxx@xxx.com successful. 12/14/2008 11:14:07 AM: SessionID extraction failed. Aborting. Any help is greatly appreciated! Mike

FYI...just tested AlbumFetcher v0.3.3 twice as "Owner" login without any problems. 1st download was 36 files/87MB and 2nd was 17 files/65M. Went very fast without a hitch. Wish I could help.

Originally Posted by mlee I'm seeing some errors that I've never seen before. Possibly related to the changes smugmug made this past week to the login screen and interstitial page bypass? 12/14/2008 11:13:56 AM: AlbumFetcher start 12/14/2008 11:14:06 AM: Logging in user xxx@xxx.com... 12/14/2008 11:14:06 AM: Start REST transaction. 12/14/2008 11:14:07 AM: Expect file of size 102 bytes. 12/14/2008 11:14:07 AM: Received file of size 102 bytes. 12/14/2008 11:14:07 AM: REST transaction successful. 12/14/2008 11:14:07 AM: Login for user xxx@xxx.com successful. 12/14/2008 11:14:07 AM: SessionID extraction failed. Aborting. Any help is greatly appreciated! Mike

I found the 'fix' for my issue. Apparently, AlbumFetcher didn't like the fact that I had a non alphanumeric character (#) in my password.

I modified my password and all is well now.

Mike

Here is my log file
===========================================
12/15/2008 3:16:24 PM: AlbumFetcher start
12/15/2008 3:16:30 PM: Logging in user dlh...
12/15/2008 3:16:30 PM: Start REST transaction.
12/15/2008 3:16:31 PM: Expect file of size 181 bytes.
12/15/2008 3:16:31 PM: Received file of size 181 bytes.
12/15/2008 3:16:31 PM: REST transaction successful.
12/15/2008 3:16:31 PM: Login for user dlh successful.
12/15/2008 3:16:31 PM: Retrieving albums for user dlh...
12/15/2008 3:16:31 PM: Start REST transaction.
12/15/2008 3:16:31 PM: Expect file of size 34228 bytes.
12/15/2008 3:16:31 PM: Received file of size 34228 bytes.
12/15/2008 3:16:31 PM: REST transaction successful.
12/15/2008 3:16:31 PM: Successfully listed 110 albums.
12/15/2008 3:16:58 PM: Requesting image information for album "Brooke&Michael/wedding"...
12/15/2008 3:16:58 PM: Start REST transaction.
12/15/2008 3:17:08 PM: Download failed on file http://api.smugmug.com/services/api/...AlbumKey=wMQsp. Received Internet Exception: The connection with the server was reset
12/15/2008 3:17:08 PM: GetUrlContentsAsMemFile failed in GetUrlContentsAsString call.
12/15/2008 3:17:08 PM: REST transaction failed at call into URL handler. Aborting.
12/15/2008 3:17:08 PM: Image info array construction failed. Download aborted.
12/15/2008 3:17:08 PM: Error in fetching image data. Download aborted.

This is a cross-post from over here, but it seemed appropriate to append to this thread...

It's been a pleasure over the past two years to see AlbumFetcher become a useful little download utility for members of the SmugMug family. The users of AlbumFetcher deserve a product that will continue to evolve and keep up with the latest SmugMug features (hidden photos, SmugVault, etc). To use the catchphrase circulating at work, I no longer have the personal bandwidth to keep AlbumFetcher current.

This thread is a call for help for someone to take the AlbumFetcher reins. The code is simple Microsoft Visual C++, using MFC. If there's anyone interested in taking the project over as-is or porting it to something cross-platform, let me know.

Thanks, and thanks again to those who've had kind words and future ideas for AlbumFetcher.

Dear Welman.

I am 100% new to Smugmug and have stock and private. I followed Album fetcher and to you link to
http://www.wellmanphoto.com/Wellman%20Family%20Photos
and encountered your page with one pic per gallery but when clicking on it a password is required. Excellent !
May I ask how do you create ONE picture in the main page that leads to all a second page with many more private galleries within smugmug?
I have limited my private galleries for now as I don't want many private galleries to clogg my new main stock photos page. [quote=wellman]I'm pleased to announce the release of AlbumFetcher!
Thanks you so much for any advise. Merry Xmas happy new year. Vic

Hi there,

I think I have a clue as to why some of us get the C++ error.

I believe the problem lies in files that Smugmug stores without a file extension. Example: some files are 1234567.jpg and some just 1234567, no extension.

I strongly suspect that this is what is causing the crash. I tried the other downloader and get a crash (as a hang) as well.

I used Migratr and it doesn't crash, but has many many non extension files. Change the extenson manually to .jpg and the file is ok.

Hope this helps 3.4

Originally Posted by Lenzflair Hi there, I think I have a clue as to why some of us get the C++ error. I believe the problem lies in files that Smugmug stores without a file extension. Example: some files are 1234567.jpg and some just 1234567, no extension. I strongly suspect that this is what is causing the crash. I tried the other downloader and get a crash (as a hang) as well. I used Migratr and it doesn't crash, but has many many non extension files. Change the extenson manually to .jpg and the file is ok. Hope this helps 3.4

Strange. I have used AF a number of times and it always downloads .jpg files from my SM account.

Originally Posted by wellman I'm pleased to announce the release of AlbumFetcher! AlbumFetcher is a little pet project of mine which I've decided to make freely available to the SmugMug community. I've received amazing amounts of help (and ideas) through these forums, and this my way of saying thanks. It's a simple little app that serves two main functions: 1. Download one or many SmugMug galleries at once 2. Embed captions and keywords into your downloaded images' IPTC headers AlbumFetcher should run on Win2000, WinXP and above. It has been reported to run under Wine on Linux and through Parallels on a Mac. It's a single file, so it's easily portable and doesn't need to be installed. AlbumFetcher is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This DGrin thread will be the project's home page. Feedback is extremely appreciated, and if there are bugs and/or other issues (as there always are), please let me know here. This is a hobby, so I can't hope to live up to SmugMug's standard of customer service, but I will try to help you out if you're having an issue with the software. One word of caution - beware of the total number of bytes you download. You could easily run up against your monthly bandwith limit. Again, this is yours to use forever for free. However, if you're a fan of my little app and feel so inclined, you can send me the electronic equivalent of the adult beverage of your choice here. Enjoy! -Greg Current version: v0.3.3 - Application | Source How Does it Work? Download AlbumFetcher (zip file) with the link above. Use WinZip or your favorite zip program to extract AlbumFetcher.exe (the program) to the folder of your choice (maybe the desktop). Double-click the AlbumFetcher program icon. If you're an account owner: In the top-right corner, enter your SmugMug ID and password. If you're a guest: Switch the login type selector to Guest. Then enter the SmugMug ID of the account you'd like to work with. You'll only have access to listed public galleries. (SmugMug ID means either your email address which is registered with SmugMug or the yourname part of yourname.smugmug.com. Your ID and password go directly to SmugMug; there's nobody listening in between.) Click List Albums. A listing of all your albums will appear. In the Download Options box (on the right), pick a folder to save albums to. Also pick the image sizes and other options as you wish. Click the list to select albums for download. Use Ctrl-clicking or Shift-clicking to select more than one. Click Fetch Albums. AlbumFetcher will now download your requested albums at the size you specified. Have a tasty beverage. UPDATE, Nov 14 2006: I've incorporated some of Pat Kane's requests and some improvements of my own into v0.2. New features include: Datetime stamp for each line in log file Files with same original name are now handled successfully (an underscore is prepended to the second file's name). Users can optionally skip over previously downloaded images (helpful when a download fails and you want to start over, but not re-download all the successful images). Category/subcategory info is shown as a field in the list control. A thumbnail of the image currently being downloaded is displayed. Total time statistics are recorded when a job is completed successfully. MD5 hashes are now compared. Files that fail the comparison are left alone, but a note is made in the log file. Again, enjoy! -Greg UPDATE, Nov 16 2006: Pat Kane pointed out a bug in the folder selector, which is now fixed. Current version is now 0.2.1. Thanks, Pat! UPDATE, Jan 11 2008: I'm pleased to announce the release of AlbumFetcher v0.3. There are several improvements in this release. Read on for details. Multiple login options - Users may now login to SmugMug as account owner, guest, or guest with site password. If you're uncomfortable with other people being able to bulk-download your images, set your external linking option (in gallery customization) to "No." Album-level password support - Guests may download password-protected galleries (with the proper password of course). Selectable image size for download - Choose which size you want! AlbumFetcher will find the next largest available if logged in as guest and requested size is not available. Video support - Choose which size you want! AlbumFetcher will find the next largest available if logged in as guest and requested size is not available. Support is also included for legacy mpeg-1 videos. As inspired by SmugMug, AlbumFetcher is stretchy! No more runtime errors - (Fingers crossed.) AlbumFetcher has essentially been completely rewritten. I found a few scenarios that caused the app to crash during my development process, and they've been eliminated. I've successfully downloaded thousands of images while testing. Let me know if you still have runtime problems. UPDATE, Jan 12 2008: Scott Walter pointed out a bug which caused the app to crash when downloading GIFs, which is now fixed. Current version is now 0.3.1. Thanks, Scott! UPDATE, Jan 29 2008: A few people were having similar issues. Basically AlbumFetcher was bombing out if it tried to download an image which was missing (for whatever rare reason) on SmugMug. This is now handled more gracefully in new Version 0.3.2 (link above) - AlbumFetcher will stop the download and report the error (instead of crashing). UPDATE, Mar 3 2008: AlbumFetcher is now compatible with SmugMug's security changes (use of keys). UPDATE, Dec 15 2008: It's been a pleasure over the past two years to see AlbumFetcher become a useful little download utility for members of the SmugMug family. The users of AlbumFetcher deserve a product that will continue to evolve and keep up with the latest SmugMug features (hidden photos, SmugVault, etc). To use the catchphrase circulating at work, I no longer have the personal bandwidth to keep AlbumFetcher current. This thread is a call for help for someone to take the AlbumFetcher reins. The code is simple Microsoft Visual C++, using MFC. If there's anyone interested in taking the project over as-is or porting it to something cross-platform, let me know. Thanks, and thanks again to those who've had kind words and future ideas for AlbumFetcher. Again, enjoy! -Greg

Hi Greg,
I am new to Smug Mug but my company has created a partnership with them... we are a video production company that deals with lots of photos and I am using SM to organize photos. Clients can upload them, sort them, caption them and then we pull them down...
I got your program (which is very cool), to batch download, but the are not staying in the order they are re-arranged and I can't find the IPTC / Captions. I've been testing for hours... can you help?

Adam@digitaldesignvideo.com
thanks

Originally Posted by digitaladam Hi Greg, I am new to Smug Mug but my company has created a partnership with them... we are a video production company that deals with lots of photos and I am using SM to organize photos. Clients can upload them, sort them, caption them and then we pull them down... I got your program (which is very cool), to batch download, but the are not staying in the order they are re-arranged and I can't find the IPTC / Captions. I've been testing for hours... can you help? Adam@digitaldesignvideo.com thanks

Adam,

AlbumFetcher does not currently support any kind of sorting order. The files will be arranged by filename or whatever your operating system defaults to. This functionality could be added, as I assume SmugMug makes that information available in the API; it's just not implemented.

AlbumFetcher embeds the IPTC and caption info in the JPEGs directly. They should be viewable by an image viewer which displays this information. If you wanted the captions written to some sort of text file, that functionality could be added to the app.

Thanks for the question; hope this helps.

-Greg

Thanks Greg for getting back so quickly. I appreciate it. I'll play around some more to see what I can some up with...
Adam

Originally Posted by wellman Adam, AlbumFetcher does not currently support any kind of sorting order. The files will be arranged by filename or whatever your operating system defaults to. This functionality could be added, as I assume SmugMug makes that information available in the API; it's just not implemented. AlbumFetcher embeds the IPTC and caption info in the JPEGs directly. They should be viewable by an image viewer which displays this information. If you wanted the captions written to some sort of text file, that functionality could be added to the app. Thanks for the question; hope this helps. -Greg

Hey,

I just wanted to put a shameless plug for RapidFetcher for Mac/Linux users out there. It should also work on Windows since it is built with Adobe AIR (but probably not as good as AlbumFetcher)

Ram

It would be great if you could retain the Category/Sub-Category of a Gallery (using Folders and Sub-Folders). I have gone to great lengths to organize my Galleries by Year/Month (custom Category/Sub-Category), and having this feature would be unbelievably helpful.

Originally Posted by thegoose It would be great if you could retain the Category/Sub-Category of a Gallery (using Folders and Sub-Folders). I have gone to great lengths to organize my Galleries by Year/Month (custom Category/Sub-Category), and having this feature would be unbelievably helpful.

Mine won't connect for some reason. Did something change that requires an update?

Originally Posted by shadowdancer36 Mine won't connect for some reason. Did something change that requires an update?

Just checked my V0.3.3 and it logged in as owner okay. Be sure to use SM account ID, not email.

Originally Posted by shadowdancer36 Mine won't connect for some reason. Did something change that requires an update?

Same here, smugmug ID is an email address... i've been using the same creds, worked earlier today, didn't work last night, not working tonight at all. ARG1

Originally Posted by DI-Joe Same here, smugmug ID is an email address... i've been using the same creds, worked earlier today, didn't work last night, not working tonight at all. ARG1

Tried again tonight. Worked fine, both login as owner and download.