Love your photos from the Taiwan trip, especially the Do Not Turb !!
One suggestion for Album Fetcher is to make the album list sortable like Windows Explorer is. I have over 3000 galleries and had to search through the entire list to find the categories that I wanted to download.
It would have been a lot easier if I could have sorted them by clicking on the header button.
Love your photos from the Taiwan trip, especially the Do Not Turb !!
One suggestion for Album Fetcher is to make the album list sortable like Windows Explorer is. I have over 3000 galleries and had to search through the entire list to find the categories that I wanted to download.
It would have been a lot easier if I could have sorted them by clicking on the header button.
Thanks for a great app.
cheers
Andrew
3000 galleries? Wow! Excellent idea on the sorting. Will have to add that to the list for the next release. Thanks for the compliments as well.
3000 galleries? Wow! Excellent idea on the sorting. Will have to add that to the list for the next release. Thanks for the compliments as well.
No problem.
I ran it successfully the other day and downloaded some albums but it's not working today.
Here's the error messages.
2/04/2008 9:33:46 AM: AlbumFetcher start
2/04/2008 9:33:53 AM: Logging in user dna...
2/04/2008 9:33:53 AM: Start REST transaction.
2/04/2008 9:33:54 AM: Expect file of size 342 bytes.
2/04/2008 9:33:54 AM: Received file of size 342 bytes.
2/04/2008 9:33:54 AM: REST transaction successful.
2/04/2008 9:33:54 AM: Login for user dna successful.
2/04/2008 9:33:54 AM: Retrieving albums for user dna...
2/04/2008 9:33:54 AM: Start REST transaction.
2/04/2008 9:34:25 AM: Download failed on file http://api.smugmug.com/services/api/rest/1.2.1/?method=smugmug.albums.get&SessionID=f8f80975c647dbe763c38e4da0edc803&Heavy=1. Received Internet Exception: The operation timed out
2/04/2008 9:34:25 AM: GetUrlContentsAsMemFile failed in GetUrlContentsAsString call.
2/04/2008 9:34:25 AM: REST transaction failed at call into URL handler. Aborting.
2/04/2008 9:34:25 AM: REST transaction failed during listing of albums. Listing of albums failed. Check log for error messages.
2/04/2008 9:34:31 AM: Start REST transaction.
2/04/2008 9:34:31 AM: Expect file of size 122 bytes.
2/04/2008 9:34:31 AM: Received file of size 122 bytes.
2/04/2008 9:34:31 AM: REST transaction successful.
2/04/2008 9:34:31 AM: Logged out.
Any chance that you could put a remember name and password into the program? Just curious. Almost forgot, the ability to save a default folder other than the current default?
My Pictures : My Gear
I Reject Your Reality And Substitute My Own - Adam Savage
Any chance that you could put a remember name and password into the program? Just curious. Almost forgot, the ability to save a default folder other than the current default?
That's a good thought, but not in the plans at the moment. It would involve AlbumFetcher saving something to your hard drive, which would go against the portable one-file nature I've been shooting for. Thanks for the feedback, though.
> It would involve AlbumFetcher saving something to your hard drive, which would go against the portable one-file nature I've been shooting for.
Greg,
A portable, one-file installation is an admirable goal, and one you have achieved. However, once the program has been installed there is no longer a need for portability. Indeed, traditional usability guidelines suggest rather strongly that user preferences should be preserved across sessions. Using the registry or a simple flat file to store the half-dozen or so settings that are unlikely to change from session to session would be quite welcome. Of course, you would not save the password. This would also save those of us who are sometimes hasty from having to clean up albums erroneously downloaded to the default directory.
Have you considered opening the source back up? Those of us who enjoy the program and have some moderate skill at programming could add little features that are important to us (heirarchical albums, sorting, preference saving, etc) and save you the time.
> It would involve AlbumFetcher saving something to your hard drive, which would go against the portable one-file nature I've been shooting for.
Greg,
A portable, one-file installation is an admirable goal, and one you have achieved. However, once the program has been installed there is no longer a need for portability. Indeed, traditional usability guidelines suggest rather strongly that user preferences should be preserved across sessions. Using the registry or a simple flat file to store the half-dozen or so settings that are unlikely to change from session to session would be quite welcome. Of course, you would not save the password. This would also save those of us who are sometimes hasty from having to clean up albums erroneously downloaded to the default directory.
Have you considered opening the source back up? Those of us who enjoy the program and have some moderate skill at programming could add little features that are important to us (heirarchical albums, sorting, preference saving, etc) and save you the time.
Thanks again for such a useful tool.
Excellent points. The source is back up (and has been for a while; I neglected to add a new post calling attention after I modified the first). Happy coding!
Timing out on larger albums?
I am using ver. 0.3.3. When I select an album for downloading that contains a lot of images (165 or more), I get the initial message "requesting information for <albumName> but then, after about 20 sec, I get the msg "error in fetching image data. download aborted". My site is www.woodfiredceramics.net
I am using ver. 0.3.3. When I select an album for downloading that contains a lot of images (165 or more), I get the initial message "requesting information for <albumName> but then, after about 20 sec, I get the msg "error in fetching image data. download aborted". My site is www.woodfiredceramics.net
Thanks for looking into it!
dave conrad
What OS are you running, and if you try again now do you see the same behavior?
Having problems with large galleries
Note: after further testing, I noticed that if I 'uncheck' the "Embed IPTC data..." it works fine.
Hi! I just started using Albumfetcher. Awesome tool and exactly what i was looking for after a major hard drive crash. I have had some success with the tool, but it seems to puke on large galleries (pukes as in can not retrieve the files, not an application shutdown.) Admittedly I have not read all of the release notes, but is there a known file limit per gallery? I have a gallery with 277 pictures and it has this problem. I'm checking some other sizes (it easily gets the pictures from a gallery with 10 pictures) just to see, but thought you might already be aware of a limit.
Note: after further testing, I noticed that if I 'uncheck' the "Embed IPTC data..." it works fine.
Hi! I just started using Albumfetcher. Awesome tool and exactly what i was looking for after a major hard drive crash. I have had some success with the tool, but it seems to puke on large galleries (pukes as in can not retrieve the files, not an application shutdown.) Admittedly I have not read all of the release notes, but is there a known file limit per gallery? I have a gallery with 277 pictures and it has this problem. I'm checking some other sizes (it easily gets the pictures from a gallery with 10 pictures) just to see, but thought you might already be aware of a limit.
Thanks,
Shane
There's no limit; I've pulled thousands of photos in a batch. There are lots of potential glitches in the line when pulling this many bytes down from the web, though. "Just keep trying" is my best advice.
Album Fetcher - Irie Man! clapclapclapclapivarbowbowbowbowbow
In true Jamaican parlance - Dis ting ya irie man!!!
My hard drive and spare backup drive crashed with over 5000 pics. Thanks to a very clumsy helper (maid in your language). I have been trying to regenerate the backups and "dis one ya work good man" Whan I get rich selling my smugmug pics - I will definitely get you some champagne
In true Jamaican parlance - Dis ting ya irie man!!!
My hard drive and spare backup drive crashed with over 5000 pics. Thanks to a very clumsy helper (maid in your language). I have been trying to regenerate the backups and "dis one ya work good man" Whan I get rich selling my smugmug pics - I will definitely get you some champagne
hey just wanted to let you know albumfetcher works on linux via wine (kudos to writing clean code!), which it might be useful to mention in the first post... (only downloaded 9 out of 460 photos so far, but it appears to work...)
Problems with Album Fetcher working
Hi, I seem to be having problems with getting this program to work. I am using Windows Vista, and am receiving an error in fetching image data. In addition with some galleries within same album, I am getting a download complete message in just a few seconds, when I check the folder where it's supposed to download it is empty. I would appreciate any advice so I can utilize this awesome tool.
hey just wanted to let you know albumfetcher works on linux via wine (kudos to writing clean code!), which it might be useful to mention in the first post... (only downloaded 9 out of 460 photos so far, but it appears to work...)
Hi, I seem to be having problems with getting this program to work. I am using Windows Vista, and am receiving an error in fetching image data. In addition with some galleries within same album, I am getting a download complete message in just a few seconds, when I check the folder where it's supposed to download it is empty. I would appreciate any advice so I can utilize this awesome tool.
guest cannot list password protected gallery
Hi,
I would to let guests list password protected gallery, in order to let them download all pictures directly.
I tried this ways :
- I created a password protected gallery (unlisted).
- I ran AlbumFetcher.
- Login as Guest with site password
- My smugmug ID, or my email.
- The password gallery or my account password.
Anyway I tried, this does not list any gallery.
Please, what's wrong here ?
The only way I could list is : login as owner, and using my smugmug ID and account password.
What I don't understant here is : how could I let guests users (friends I will send the gallery password) download a password protected gallery without having to give my account and password ID, which would let them log as owner onto my AlbumFetcher account ???
Is there any other way to download multiple pictures ?
In guest mode, you'll have to enter a site password if there is one. If there's an album password, you'll be prompted for it. In guest mode, only public galleries (which can still be password-protected) are displayed. Hope this helps.
-Greg
Hi,
I would to let guests list password protected gallery, in order to let them download all pictures directly.
I tried this ways :
- I created a password protected gallery (unlisted).
- I ran AlbumFetcher.
- Login as Guest with site password
- My smugmug ID, or my email.
- The password gallery or my account password.
Anyway I tried, this does not list any gallery.
Please, what's wrong here ?
The only way I could list is : login as owner, and using my smugmug ID and account password.
What I don't understant here is : how could I let guests users (friends I will send the gallery password) download a password protected gallery without having to give my account and password ID, which would let them log as owner onto my AlbumFetcher account ???
Is there any other way to download multiple pictures ?
Hi, sorry you're having trouble. Are the albums you're trying to download public albums? If so, could you send me some links? I can try to fetch them myself and look for potential issues. Thanks.
Hi, sorry you're having trouble. Are the albums you're trying to download public albums? If so, could you send me some links? I can try to fetch them myself and look for potential issues. Thanks.
Hi,
Thanks for the above answers. It works fine as you explained above :
- I set the gallery as public ;
- Log as guest ;
- set my Smugmug ID
Then public galleries are listed
- Then launch the downlaod and I'm prompted for the gallery password.
So it works fine :-)
But I have to set the gallery as public. And as far as I could understand, even if a gallery is password protected, this is still possible to view or download a public album if you don't know the password. In other word, to make an album "private" (I mean password locked), you have to se it private, not public.
Is there any chance to be able to download at once a private album using AlbumFetcher ?
Or could Smugmug implement the "download at one gallery" as they implemented for "Buy multiple photos".
Other question :
In AlbumFetcher, there is a third possibility :
Log as guest with password. I cannot figure out how using it and its feature. Please could you let me know.
Other question :
I tested the download while typing this message, and noticed that some pictures of downloaded album are not sorted as they are on my computer.
Checking how this is displayed on Smugmug, I discovered that they are not sorted as they are on my computer, but they are sorted as the download.
So it looks like a Smugmug problem or limitation. Could you experience this ? Is this a normal behaviour ?
Thanks for the above answers. It works fine as you explained above :
- I set the gallery as public ;
- Log as guest ;
- set my Smugmug ID
Then public galleries are listed
- Then launch the downlaod and I'm prompted for the gallery password.
So it works fine :-)
But I have to set the gallery as public. And as far as I could understand, even if a gallery is password protected, this is still possible to view or download a public album if you don't know the password. In other word, to make an album "private" (I mean password locked), you have to se it private, not public.
Is there any chance to be able to download at once a private album using AlbumFetcher ?
Or could Smugmug implement the "download at one gallery" as they implemented for "Buy multiple photos".
Unlisted albums will not show up for guests using AlbumFetcher. This is per SmugMug design.
Other question :
In AlbumFetcher, there is a third possibility :
Log as guest with password. I cannot figure out how using it and its feature. Please could you let me know.
This enables use of AlbumFetcher for guests who know the site-wide password for a certain SmugMug account.
Other question :
I tested the download while typing this message, and noticed that some pictures of downloaded album are not sorted as they are on my computer.
Checking how this is displayed on Smugmug, I discovered that they are not sorted as they are on my computer, but they are sorted as the download.
So it looks like a Smugmug problem or limitation. Could you experience this ? Is this a normal behaviour ?
The sorting on your computer and sorting on SmugMug are independently controlled, so they won't match necessarily.
Comments
Love your photos from the Taiwan trip, especially the Do Not Turb !!
One suggestion for Album Fetcher is to make the album list sortable like Windows Explorer is. I have over 3000 galleries and had to search through the entire list to find the categories that I wanted to download.
It would have been a lot easier if I could have sorted them by clicking on the header button.
Thanks for a great app.
cheers
Andrew
3000 galleries? Wow! Excellent idea on the sorting. Will have to add that to the list for the next release. Thanks for the compliments as well.
Swim for Them | WellmanHouse.net | AlbumFetcher | SmugShowBuilder
I ran it successfully the other day and downloaded some albums but it's not working today.
Here's the error messages.
2/04/2008 9:33:46 AM: AlbumFetcher start
2/04/2008 9:33:53 AM: Logging in user dna...
2/04/2008 9:33:53 AM: Start REST transaction.
2/04/2008 9:33:54 AM: Expect file of size 342 bytes.
2/04/2008 9:33:54 AM: Received file of size 342 bytes.
2/04/2008 9:33:54 AM: REST transaction successful.
2/04/2008 9:33:54 AM: Login for user dna successful.
2/04/2008 9:33:54 AM: Retrieving albums for user dna...
2/04/2008 9:33:54 AM: Start REST transaction.
2/04/2008 9:34:25 AM: Download failed on file http://api.smugmug.com/services/api/rest/1.2.1/?method=smugmug.albums.get&SessionID=f8f80975c647dbe763c38e4da0edc803&Heavy=1. Received Internet Exception: The operation timed out
2/04/2008 9:34:25 AM: GetUrlContentsAsMemFile failed in GetUrlContentsAsString call.
2/04/2008 9:34:25 AM: REST transaction failed at call into URL handler. Aborting.
2/04/2008 9:34:25 AM: REST transaction failed during listing of albums. Listing of albums failed. Check log for error messages.
2/04/2008 9:34:31 AM: Start REST transaction.
2/04/2008 9:34:31 AM: Expect file of size 122 bytes.
2/04/2008 9:34:31 AM: Received file of size 122 bytes.
2/04/2008 9:34:31 AM: REST transaction successful.
2/04/2008 9:34:31 AM: Logged out.
thanks
Andrew
I Reject Your Reality And Substitute My Own - Adam Savage
That's a good thought, but not in the plans at the moment. It would involve AlbumFetcher saving something to your hard drive, which would go against the portable one-file nature I've been shooting for. Thanks for the feedback, though.
Swim for Them | WellmanHouse.net | AlbumFetcher | SmugShowBuilder
Greg,
A portable, one-file installation is an admirable goal, and one you have achieved. However, once the program has been installed there is no longer a need for portability. Indeed, traditional usability guidelines suggest rather strongly that user preferences should be preserved across sessions. Using the registry or a simple flat file to store the half-dozen or so settings that are unlikely to change from session to session would be quite welcome. Of course, you would not save the password. This would also save those of us who are sometimes hasty from having to clean up albums erroneously downloaded to the default directory.
Have you considered opening the source back up? Those of us who enjoy the program and have some moderate skill at programming could add little features that are important to us (heirarchical albums, sorting, preference saving, etc) and save you the time.
Thanks again for such a useful tool.
Excellent points. The source is back up (and has been for a while; I neglected to add a new post calling attention after I modified the first). Happy coding!
Swim for Them | WellmanHouse.net | AlbumFetcher | SmugShowBuilder
I Reject Your Reality And Substitute My Own - Adam Savage
Is there a way to get the orig names of files when downloading? Or just the Smumug assigned names?
http://www.shanehophotography.com
Only the SmugMug image IDs are available to guests. Glad AlbumFetcher is useful to you.
Swim for Them | WellmanHouse.net | AlbumFetcher | SmugShowBuilder
Swim for Them | WellmanHouse.net | AlbumFetcher | SmugShowBuilder
I am using ver. 0.3.3. When I select an album for downloading that contains a lot of images (165 or more), I get the initial message "requesting information for <albumName> but then, after about 20 sec, I get the msg "error in fetching image data. download aborted". My site is www.woodfiredceramics.net
Thanks for looking into it!
dave conrad
What OS are you running, and if you try again now do you see the same behavior?
Swim for Them | WellmanHouse.net | AlbumFetcher | SmugShowBuilder
Note: after further testing, I noticed that if I 'uncheck' the "Embed IPTC data..." it works fine.
Hi! I just started using Albumfetcher. Awesome tool and exactly what i was looking for after a major hard drive crash. I have had some success with the tool, but it seems to puke on large galleries (pukes as in can not retrieve the files, not an application shutdown.) Admittedly I have not read all of the release notes, but is there a known file limit per gallery? I have a gallery with 277 pictures and it has this problem. I'm checking some other sizes (it easily gets the pictures from a gallery with 10 pictures) just to see, but thought you might already be aware of a limit.
Thanks,
Shane
There's no limit; I've pulled thousands of photos in a batch. There are lots of potential glitches in the line when pulling this many bytes down from the web, though. "Just keep trying" is my best advice.
Swim for Them | WellmanHouse.net | AlbumFetcher | SmugShowBuilder
In true Jamaican parlance - Dis ting ya irie man!!!
My hard drive and spare backup drive crashed with over 5000 pics. Thanks to a very clumsy helper (maid in your language). I have been trying to regenerate the backups and "dis one ya work good man" Whan I get rich selling my smugmug pics - I will definitely get you some champagne
Gina Rey Forest
Swim for Them | WellmanHouse.net | AlbumFetcher | SmugShowBuilder
Thanks!
Swim for Them | WellmanHouse.net | AlbumFetcher | SmugShowBuilder
Hi, I seem to be having problems with getting this program to work. I am using Windows Vista, and am receiving an error in fetching image data. In addition with some galleries within same album, I am getting a download complete message in just a few seconds, when I check the folder where it's supposed to download it is empty. I would appreciate any advice so I can utilize this awesome tool.
thanks
Sweet!:ivar First post updated...
Swim for Them | WellmanHouse.net | AlbumFetcher | SmugShowBuilder
Swim for Them | WellmanHouse.net | AlbumFetcher | SmugShowBuilder
Hi,
I would to let guests list password protected gallery, in order to let them download all pictures directly.
I tried this ways :
- I created a password protected gallery (unlisted).
- I ran AlbumFetcher.
- Login as Guest with site password
- My smugmug ID, or my email.
- The password gallery or my account password.
Anyway I tried, this does not list any gallery.
Please, what's wrong here ?
The only way I could list is : login as owner, and using my smugmug ID and account password.
What I don't understant here is : how could I let guests users (friends I will send the gallery password) download a password protected gallery without having to give my account and password ID, which would let them log as owner onto my AlbumFetcher account ???
Is there any other way to download multiple pictures ?
Thanks,
Would you mind sharing the contents of that PM?
I'm having the same issue.. and have never had problems with the app before
thanks
greg
-Greg
Swim for Them | WellmanHouse.net | AlbumFetcher | SmugShowBuilder
Swim for Them | WellmanHouse.net | AlbumFetcher | SmugShowBuilder
Hi,
Thanks for the above answers. It works fine as you explained above :
- I set the gallery as public ;
- Log as guest ;
- set my Smugmug ID
Then public galleries are listed
- Then launch the downlaod and I'm prompted for the gallery password.
So it works fine :-)
But I have to set the gallery as public. And as far as I could understand, even if a gallery is password protected, this is still possible to view or download a public album if you don't know the password. In other word, to make an album "private" (I mean password locked), you have to se it private, not public.
Is there any chance to be able to download at once a private album using AlbumFetcher ?
Or could Smugmug implement the "download at one gallery" as they implemented for "Buy multiple photos".
Other question :
In AlbumFetcher, there is a third possibility :
Log as guest with password. I cannot figure out how using it and its feature. Please could you let me know.
Other question :
I tested the download while typing this message, and noticed that some pictures of downloaded album are not sorted as they are on my computer.
Checking how this is displayed on Smugmug, I discovered that they are not sorted as they are on my computer, but they are sorted as the download.
So it looks like a Smugmug problem or limitation. Could you experience this ? Is this a normal behaviour ?
Once again, thanks, it really helped me.
Best regards,
Gil.
Unlisted albums will not show up for guests using AlbumFetcher. This is per SmugMug design. This enables use of AlbumFetcher for guests who know the site-wide password for a certain SmugMug account. The sorting on your computer and sorting on SmugMug are independently controlled, so they won't match necessarily.
Glad you're getting good use. Best of luck.
Swim for Them | WellmanHouse.net | AlbumFetcher | SmugShowBuilder