How to programmatically invoke smugmug

DerStig

I'd like to write my own service that will process newly created pictures/videos and upload them to smugmug (first it has to create album, assign a theme, etc). I currently use the smugmug's windows explorer tool which lets me right click on files and upload. I could potentially be happy with silently running that process from my process (as long as I don't have to do it), but I'm not sure if that's available.

Regardless, it would be great if someone can help me out and point me to the right direction. Where I'm coming from is, I take a lot of pictures/videos and upload at least one gallery a day. Transferring these files from my cameras into my computer, sorting them, then uploading to smugmug takes a long time. So I decided to buy couple of the eye-fi cards which will do the transfer/sort part for me, then I'm willing to write a program myself (this is my day time job) which will always run in my media server and upload new files into smugmug automatically.

Thanks for the help.

jfriend

Smugmug has an API and an API discussion forum. If you want to programmatically access photos on Smugmug or upload photos to Smugmug, then this API would be how you do that.

jhofker

Eye-Fi appears to have built-in functionality to upload to SmugMug - maybe that's good enough?

DerStig

jhofker wrote: »

Eye-Fi appears to have built-in functionality to upload to SmugMug - maybe that's good enough?

Sorry, the eye-fi I have, which is the X2 pro one, does not have that. It has integration for facebook, flickr, ftp, mobileme, and picasa. If you can show me how to integrate it with smugmug, you'll save me a few hundreds of line of code:)

bandgeekndb

Definitely take another look at the settings for your eye-fi card. Their site indicates the Pro X2 should have no problem uploading to Smugmug. In fact, they tout both image and video uploads.

I'm getting my Pro X2 card on Monday, so I'll verify Smugmug support then if you don't get a chance before then.

~Nick


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SamirD

I'm interested in what can be done with the Eyefi and SM. I may start using these shortly.

DerStig

It can be done, its very easy to set it up, however, you can't control every setting. You can make the gallery public/private, set its name, but thats pretty much it. You can't set category or theme.

jhofker

Seems like setting category and theme might be the easiest part of what you're looking to do. :-) Just set it to upload private galleries automatically and then go manually change settings when you're ready for them to be public.

SamirD

There were some command line interfaces to the API that might be able to help you. I don't remember their names off-hand, but I remember one was a completely java application where you could execute API methods straight from the command line.

SamirD

DerStig wrote: »

It can be done, its very easy to set it up, however, you can't control every setting. You can make the gallery public/private, set its name, but thats pretty much it. You can't set category or theme.

Can you tell it to upload to an existing gallery?