SmugLr: captions from PicacaWeb?

Gazorg

Hi.

Anyone that has had better success with transferring photos from PicasaWeb with SmugLr than I? I got the galleries and photos transferrend all right but the captions on the photos were lost. Instead the picture filenames are used as caption which is worse than no caption than all.

To make things worse there is no way to delete the numerous imported galleries to start over that I have found.

// David

rainforest1155

David,

Can you write us at the HelpDesk with a link to your site so we could take a look? I can't say for sure, but captions from PicasaWeb might not be supported.

If you really wanted to start over, we could close and re-open the account for you and thus clear out any existing galleries.

http://help.smugmug.com/

Gazorg

Well. I'll solve it with a small greasemonkey script instead so that I can delete galleries with about one click each. Of course it would have been quicker to do it manually this once but there will be an userscript utility to do it instead.

Gazorg

The bug in SmuggLr fixed.
This sunday's quick hack:

I unpacked the .xpi that is SmuggLr 3.14 and did the following change.

At line 1783 you find the following for fetching the title (i.e. caption) from the PicasaWeb JSON:

var title = json.feed.entry[j].title.$t;

I changed this to

var title = json.feed.entry[j].summary.$t;

and got the behaviour I wanted.

SmuggLr calculates the filename from the URL to the picture instead of taking it from the JSON directly so this should remain undisturbed.

Then I repacked the firefox extension, removed the old one (firefox restart) and installed the new one (restart) and run a test with a few albums. Seems to work but should of course be better tested before real use.