Extracting text file of captions etc from pictures in a gallery

henrytd

I'm looking for an automated way to create a text file of some or all of:

Captions,
Filenames
Date of Creation
Keywords

from all photos in a Smugmug gallery (about 160 images) so I can make labels for a display binder.

The gallery happens to be "smart" in that all images are actually stored in other galleries on the site in question.

Also, all of these images are also in a Collection in LR3, if that's an easier place to get this information into a text file that can easily be manipulated into a set of labels.

This is also posted in Customization, but it was suggested to put it here instead.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

SamirD

Without fooling around with the API, I think using smugroom tools might be the easiest way to get this information. Then you can massage it to get it in the format you like. http://smugroom.com/tools/

henrytd

Smugroom Tools

SamirD wrote: »

Without fooling around with the API, I think using smugroom tools might be the easiest way to get this information. Then you can massage it to get it in the format you like. http://smugroom.com/tools/

That's a great suggestion. I'll look into it immediately.

For my immediate purpose, I ended up cutting and pasting, which was time consuming, but it got the job done.

Thanks very much,

Skip

SamirD

No problem. If you're ever having to do any 'brute force' work like that, consider using the 'view source' option in your browser. Everything you see on a page like the Tools-->Captions/ Keyword is still just html, including all the information in the dialogue boxes. You can view source and then use find and other tools to automatically strip out everything you need. It's how I generate scripts to delete thousands of junk galleries sometimes created by testing smugftp.

henrytd

SamirD wrote: »

No problem. If you're ever having to do any 'brute force' work like that, consider using the 'view source' option in your browser. Everything you see on a page like the Tools-->Captions/ Keyword is still just html, including all the information in the dialogue boxes. You can view source and then use find and other tools to automatically strip out everything you need. It's how I generate scripts to delete thousands of junk galleries sometimes created by testing smugftp.

Thanks again! There is a whole world behind the mirror (as Alice would say). I should look more often!

Skip

SamirD

I'd also recommend Portable Notepad++, which is a great editor with very, very powerful find and replace and other features that make it easy to write scripts. Also research batch files that can be run on xp and the command line for osx on the mac. So much automation can be done with these.

darryl

SamirD wrote: »

Without fooling around with the API, I think using smugroom tools might be the easiest way to get this information. Then you can massage it to get it in the format you like. http://smugroom.com/tools/

Whoa, that's a *great* resource. Forwarded it to my friend whose SmugMug site has a ton of galleries. Hopefully it'll help her with organization, etc.

Thanks Samir!

SamirD

You're welcome. When you've got well over 2000 galleries like I do full of over 1/2 a million photos, you need all the tools you can get your hands on.