Migratr: Flickr to ? tool

DJ-S1

Just saw this on the web, a user wrote a tool to migrate from Flickr to Zoomr but he has now included export to SmugMug. :clap

I haven't used it, just thought I'd give it a mention in case it is useful for some of you folks.

callingshotgun

DJ-S1 wrote:

Just saw this on the web, a user wrote a tool to migrate from Flickr to Zoomr but he has now included export to SmugMug.

I haven't used it, just thought I'd give it a mention in case it is useful for some of you folks.

Hey- Just saw this link in my referrers- FYI, Migratr Will support import AND export to/from Flickr, SmugMug, and 23HQ. It's purpose is to give you total control over your photos. Zooomr support is experimental- They've temporarily disabled bulk uploaders, so I can't test it yet. Migratr is still in it's infancy, and it's evolution will very much be guided by user feedback. So if any of you are interested in migrating all your Flickr photos over to SmugMug, please give it a shot and tell me what you think:)

-Alex

Andy

DJ-S1 wrote:

Just saw this on the web, a user wrote a tool to migrate from Flickr to Zoomr but he has now included export to SmugMug.

I haven't used it, just thought I'd give it a mention in case it is useful for some of you folks.

We have SmuggLr

http://smugglr.smugmug.com

And thanks for this post, looking into it now!

devbobo

callingshotgun wrote:

Hey- Just saw this link in my referrers- FYI, Migratr Will support import AND export to/from Flickr, SmugMug, and 23HQ. It's purpose is to give you total control over your photos. Zooomr support is experimental- They've temporarily disabled bulk uploaders, so I can't test it yet. Migratr is still in it's infancy, and it's evolution will very much be guided by user feedback. So if any of you are interested in migrating all your Flickr photos over to SmugMug, please give it a shot and tell me what you think:)

-Alex

G'day Alex,

Good to see that you got the SmugMug support integrated so quickly. Did you have a look at smugmug.images.uploadFromURL ?

Cheers,

David

callingshotgun

devbobo wrote:

G'day Alex,

Good to see that you got the SmugMug support integrated so quickly. Did you have a look at smugmug.images.uploadFromURL ?

Cheers,

David

Yup-

It looks pretty handy. Currently Migratr works in a
Download Image 1
Download Image 2
(etc)

Upload Image 1
Upload Image 2
(etc)

way, and that lets people keep the photos on their hard drive in case they want to upload to a few different services. I've been working on putting in the option of doing it in the following way-

Download Image 1
Upload Image 1
Remove Image 1 from hard drive
Download Image 2
Upload Image 2
Remove Image 1 from hard drive

So that people with thousands of photos who don't have the temp space to spare can use it more easily. uploadFromUrl will DEFINITELY be handy in this case, I can completely skip an entire middle step and make Migration run much quicker:P

Thanks for the idea!
-Alex

Andy

callingshotgun wrote:

Hey- Just saw this link in my referrers- FYI, Migratr Will support import AND export to/from Flickr, SmugMug, and 23HQ. It's purpose is to give you total control over your photos. Zooomr support is experimental- They've temporarily disabled bulk uploaders, so I can't test it yet. Migratr is still in it's infancy, and it's evolution will very much be guided by user feedback. So if any of you are interested in migrating all your Flickr photos over to SmugMug, please give it a shot and tell me what you think:)

-Alex

Any chance you could add Yahoo Photos --> SmugMug?

callingshotgun

Andy wrote:

Any chance you could add Yahoo Photos --> SmugMug?

Glad to see it's generating interest:)

I took a look at Yahoo Photos, and unfortunately it looks to be more trouble than it's worth to support, for a few reasons:
*It's shutting down, in (as of the countdown on the page) 89 days. This makes exporting to Yahoo Photos pretty much useless. It's really important to me that every service supported by Migratr has photo migration supported in BOTH directions, for the sake of portability and not implying any biases whatsoever.
*There's no .NET libraries I've been able to find ANYWHERE on the internet for interacting with the Yahoo Photos API. Writing my own would take quite a long time, and even if I could,
*They're not accepting new accounts, so I can't test any libraries I wrote
*Yahoo Photos is already setting up their own stuff for exporting to a few other services, Flickr included. Once that's set up, you could easily do the free export from Yahoo Photos -> Flickr, and then use Migratr (or Smuglr, which I understand to be a pretty awesome app in it's own right:) to hop the photos from there to SmugMug.

I feel a little bad about rejecting Yahoo Photos, but this is a one-dev application, and I need to focus my time implementing the featureset/services supported on what will be the most useful to the most people. As an example, I'm currently working on adding Google Picasaweb, as well as some album support so a little more of the organization one set up in one service carries over to the other service:)

Thanks for the idea though, and please, keep the input rolling!

-Alex

catville

Has anyone tried this and been successful? I clicked on the link but I didn't try it. I was not able to use Smugglr because I don't have Firefox. I tried to download it but it still never worked.

I'm just interested in getting my photos from Flickr to SmugMug.

callingshotgun

Heh
You know what? Nevermind. There's enough people stranded on Yahoo Photos that I'm going to take a crack at this.

However- I can't set up a Yahoo Photos account- they've disabled new accounts (frustrating, I tell you!)

Anybody have an abandoned yahoo photos account I can test with?

-Alex

chriscrossing

Andy wrote:

We have SmuggLr

http://smugglr.smugmug.com

And thanks for this post, looking into it now!

You should post this under your HELP section on Smugmug. I searched for Flickr and all I got back was an article on importing photos from Picasso. I found this thread by doing a Google search.

Was VERY glad I found this before I started doing things manually. Ouch, that would have hurt.

Cheers, Chris

jhelms

I'm still trying to migrate several large albums from flickr to smugmug, but have gotten errors / incomplete transfers using smugglr and migrtr - I've got a fast connection and the HD space... any tips?

daylightimages

I've been looking for a way to send a select number of photos from SmugMug to Flickr without having to re-title and re-keyword each photo twice. Migratr looks like it will do what I want, but I don't want to send my entire SmugMug collection to Flickr. Can I export select photos to Flickr using Migratr. (The only reason I want to deal with Flickr is to get attention from folks browsing there looking for photos -- kinda like just to steer them to my SmugMug site).

Thanks!