Announcing SmugMugExport, an iPhoto plugin

aarone · May 30, 2007

I'd like to announce the release of a beta version of an iPhoto export plugin I've written that will export photos to smugmug. I'd be interested to find out about any bugs that you may find. It should work on PPC and Intel Macs with the most recent version of iPhoto.

You can download the plugin here

The code is available via a BSD license. Feel free to do what you'd like with it as long as your give me credit.

devbobo · May 30, 2007

Congrats...this plugin looks great

Can you please PM me an email address where I can contact you.

Cheers,

David

Andy · May 30, 2007

Bravo!!!!!!!

Andy · June 2, 2007

So far I did 3 big uploads, works like a charm

aarone · June 3, 2007

Andy wrote:

So far I did 3 big uploads, works like a charm

that's great to hear. I released a new version (beta 3) that fixes some small bugs and uses the JSON api instead of the REST api.

Andy · June 3, 2007

aarone wrote:

that's great to hear. I released a new version (beta 3) that fixes some small bugs and uses the JSON api instead of the REST api.

Sounds like Dev's been talking to you

Awesome...

GarethLewin · June 5, 2007

aarone wrote:

that's great to hear. I released a new version (beta 3) that fixes some small bugs and uses the JSON api instead of the REST api.

May I ask why you moved from REST to JSON?

aarone · June 5, 2007

GarethLewin wrote:

May I ask why you moved from REST to JSON?

I guess the first thing to say is that the APIs are not different at all and that the only difference in is the response format. The only thing that changes moving from REST to JSON is whether I'm parsing XML responses or JSON responses. JSON responses have the benefit of being able to be turned directly into objects (ie dictionaries) by a third-party library and used without writing XML parsing code. This makes my code more concise and easier to fix as any APIs change.

GarethLewin · June 6, 2007

aarone wrote:

I guess the first thing to say is that the APIs are not different at all and that the only difference in is the response format. The only thing that changes moving from REST to JSON is whether I'm parsing XML responses or JSON responses. JSON responses have the benefit of being able to be turned directly into objects (ie dictionaries) by a third-party library and used without writing XML parsing code. This makes my code more concise and easier to fix as any APIs change.

Thanks, what is what I was hoping the reason was. I have been using REST because it is very easy to use the XML in a C# application, and just wanted to make sure there wasn't some deficiency in REST.

Thanks again.

devbobo · June 6, 2007

GarethLewin wrote:

Thanks, what is what I was hoping the reason was. I have been using REST because it is very easy to use the XML in a C# application, and just wanted to make sure there wasn't some deficiency in REST.

Thanks again.

Gareth,

That being said, JSON responses are lighter than REST responses. If you are interested, json.org has some C# JSON parsers.

Cheers,

David

GarethLewin · June 7, 2007

devbobo wrote:

Gareth,

That being said, JSON responses are lighter than REST responses. If you are interested, json.org has some C# JSON parsers.

Cheers,

David

The REST responses aren't that heavy (they are not XML-RPC), and unless they put a lot of strain on your side of stuff, I would rather stick with REST.

The beauty with C# and REST is that it took me about 2 hours of learning C# and XML serialisation stuff, and then another 1 hour to setup all the classes and it all now "just works".

aarone · June 10, 2007

I've just released <a href="http://aarone.org/smugmugexport">beta 4 of SmugMugExport</a>. Improvements include:

added preferences panel
added a preference to scale images during upload (JPEGs only)
added a preference for opening gallery in browser upon upload completion
moved preferences to their own application domain

aarone · June 15, 2007

Changes to the JSON api broke SmugMugExport. I released a fix this morning available on the product page.

aarone · July 14, 2007

I just released beta 6 of SmugMugExport. It is now packaged with an installer to simplify installation. Barring any significant bugs or feature requests, this will probably be the last beta release of SmugMugExport.

aarone · August 5, 2007

I released version 1.0 of SmugMugExport today. It fixes all outstanding bugs I know of and should be pretty solid.

Andy · August 5, 2007

aarone wrote:

I released version 1.0 of SmugMugExport today. It fixes all outstanding bugs I know of and should be pretty solid.

Very cool.

Love the app, thanks for making it.

Hey, the input box for the nickname on login has no cursor. Can you fix that?

aarone · August 6, 2007

Andy wrote:

Love the app, thanks for making it.

Thanks for the kind words. It's been my pleasure creating the plugin.

Andy wrote:

Hey, the input box for the nickname on login has no cursor. Can you fix that?

fixed! check out version 1.0.1 which contains this change. It's odd that I didn't get that for free.

aarone · August 12, 2007

iPhoto 7 (iLife '08) broke SmugMugExport. SmugMugExport 1.0.2 provides iPhoto 7 compatibility and preserves iPhoto 6 compatibility. Let's hope this is my last release for a while.

scoodog · August 15, 2007

Hi Aaron, thank you very much for the plug-in. Very nice. Anyway the create gallery window could include the "sub-category" dropdown? Just wonderin'. It would be helpful.

Thx!

aarone wrote:

iPhoto 7 (iLife '08) broke SmugMugExport. SmugMugExport 1.0.2 provides iPhoto 7 compatibility and preserves iPhoto 6 compatibility. Let's hope this is my last release for a while.

aarone · August 17, 2007

scoodog wrote:

Anyway the create gallery window could include the "sub-category" dropdown? Just wonderin'.

i'll add subcategory selection in the next minor release of SME. Thanks for using it and glad you enjoy it!

scoodog · August 18, 2007

Thanks Aaron!

aarone wrote:

i'll add subcategory selection in the next minor release of SME. Thanks for using it and glad you enjoy it!

kokomosam · October 3, 2007

Hello all,

I found this great thread, but have been unable to download the application. http://aarone.org/smugmugexport

Seems to be down. Anyone else having problems?

Sam

kokomosam · October 3, 2007

kokomosam wrote:

Hello all,

I found this great thread, but have been unable to download the application. http://aarone.org/smugmugexport

Seems to be down. Anyone else having problems?

Sam

Site is back up now and I was able to download the plugin, so far it looks great! Thanks.

bow

There is one thing that I did notice that doesn't work just like I thought. Mainly due to my mis-understanding, I am sure, but still... The exporter doesn't seem to export keywords or captions from iphoto to smugug. Is that correct? If it is correct is uploading captoins and keywords ented into iPhoto something that could be added?

Thanks again.

Sam

aarone · October 3, 2007

kokomosam wrote:

Site is back up now and I was able to download the plugin, so far it looks great

Sorry, my webhost's server was down earlier. It's usually pretty reliable.

kokomosam wrote:

There is one thing that I did notice that doesn't work just like I thought. Mainly due to my mis-understanding, I am sure, but still... The exporter doesn't seem to export keywords or captions from iphoto to smugug. Is that correct? If it is correct is uploading captoins and keywords ented into iPhoto something that could be added?

I'll look into this. I think i've fixed this bug but have yet to release the fix. My next release will fix this issue.

aarone · October 7, 2007

I just released SmugMugExport 1.0.3 which adds support for creating albums with subcategories, fixes a few bugs, and includes other under the hood improvements.

Andy · October 7, 2007

aarone wrote:

I just released SmugMugExport 1.0.3 which adds support for creating albums with subcategories, fixes a few bugs, and includes other under the hood improvements.

kokomosam · October 16, 2007

aarone wrote:

I just released SmugMugExport 1.0.3 which adds support for creating albums with subcategories, fixes a few bugs, and includes other under the hood improvements.

Thanks!

I downloaded the new version and it is working great! It is uplaoding keywords and switching between accounts is much easier now.

bow

Thanks again for making such a great tool.

Sam

kokomosam · November 1, 2007

aarone wrote:

I just released SmugMugExport 1.0.3 which adds support for creating albums with subcategories, fixes a few bugs, and includes other under the hood improvements.

Thanks again, for providing such a great tool. I love it and use it often. However, with this current release, I am getting lots of incomplete uploads. I start to upload my pictures, but the "hang" at some point and never seem to recover.

Is there someplace I should look to troubleshoot? Should I send you any logs?

Thanks

Sam

aarone · November 6, 2007

kokomosam wrote:

However, with this current release, I am getting lots of incomplete uploads. I start to upload my pictures, but the "hang" at some point and never seem to recover.

Is there someplace I should look to troubleshoot? Should I send you any logs?

Man, that really stinks and I'd love to figure out what's going on. I can help you diagnose the problem. Send me an email and we'll go from there (aaron (at) aarone (dot) org)

thanks,
-ae

kokomosam · November 28, 2007

aarone wrote:

Man, that really stinks and I'd love to figure out what's going on. I can help you diagnose the problem. Send me an email and we'll go from there (aaron (at) aarone (dot) org)

thanks,
-ae

Aaron,

Thanks for the help. It looks like I can confirm that the problems I was related to my wireless connection. Connected via ethernet I am unable to reproduce the problems. What threw me off at first was that my wireless problems don't seem to impact my general web surfing.

Thanks again for all your help!

Sam

aarone · December 4, 2007

I'm almost ready to release a new version of SmugMugExport but I do not have any machines running Tiger to test the app. Any Tiger users care to try out the new version and let me know if it works properly?

SmugMugExport-1.0.4.beta-1.zip

Major features of the next release include:
* software update included in the plugin
* better keyword support
* ability to send iPhoto image titles to SmugMug
* various other bug fixes

thanks!
-ae

Announcing SmugMugExport, an iPhoto plugin

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