A Way to Quickly Compare Galleries?

SamirD

So here's my dilemma. I have three galleries, each containing a subset of the images in the previous gallery. For example, Gallery 1 has 250 image, Gallery 2 has 200, and Gallery 3 has 100. I accomplish this by uploading all images to each gallery and hiding the appropriate ones. I would use the collect photos feature, but the last time I tried it, it was a really big issue when the hide marks didn't stay with the appropriate galleries.

So my question is, is there a quick and easy way to see if there's an image in gallery 3 that's not in gallery 2. After I sync'd gallery 3's hide marks to match gallery 2 (and the same for gallery 1 and gallery 2), I checked them to make sure both gallieries had the same number of images public, so they were essentially the same. I'd like to double check this by making sure an image that's in gallery 3 doesn't appear in gallery 2 or gallery 1, and the same for images in gallery 2 not being in gallery 1.

But the problem is I can't figure out any quick way to do this other than just going through both galleries side-by-side and manually checking. If I could get a file listing from each gallery of the images that are public, I could quickly use a text file comparison, but I can't do that without writing some code and using the API. I've even thought about downloading the images, but with the SM file numbering, each file has a different name even if the file is the same.

Any suggestions?

jfriend

You could use this tool to generate a list of image URLs in each gallery. The image URLs have a condensed version of the filename in the URL so perhaps you could compare that in each gallery.

SamirD

I think I may have tried this, but because of the sheer number of photos, I think the script timed out. Trying again.

SamirD

The script executed, but the file names are just paths to the SM filenames.

jfriend

SamirD wrote: »

The script executed, but the file names are just paths to the SM filenames.

When I did it on one of my galleries, a slightly modified version of the actual filename was in the URL. Did you not see that in the URL?

SamirD

jfriend wrote: »

When I did it on one of my galleries, a slightly modified version of the actual filename was in the URL. Did you not see that in the URL?

No, but I think I know why. My galleries are set to medium. But I'm also concerned as this will probably get links to all the images including hidden ones.

jfriend

SamirD wrote: »

No, but I think I know why. My galleries are set to medium. But I'm also concerned as this will probably get links to all the images including hidden ones.

If you do it without supplying a password, it won't include hidden ones.

SamirD

jfriend wrote: »

If you do it without supplying a password, it won't include hidden ones.

Hmm...I'll have to play with my settings a bit since all my galleries are hidden, but I think it should work.

SamirD

jfriend wrote: »

If you do it without supplying a password, it won't include hidden ones.

I finally got a chance to try this, and no dice. :cry It would list the galleries, but not the files. It would just kick me back to the login screen. Any other suggestions?