iStockphoto to SmugMug

scottV

I created this little web app for myself originally, posting it up because maybe it will help others. I like to keep an album on SM that shows all of my images for sale on IS but it was a pain to keep it up to date all the time. is2sm will pull all your IS images and put them into a specified SM album. Some features:

• Puts IS image title and description into SM caption field, also makes title direct link to image w/ your referral code.
• Includes your painstakingly selected keywords.
• You can run it every day and it will only upload images that don't already exist in your album, no need to re-do all of them.
• Translates very basic UBB code so links to lightboxes & images will show up in album.

Since the images are pulled straight from istock they will already include the watermark so you should disable it in your album, also disable print sales.
There is an issue with an error being thrown by the SM api at times that I still need to debug so some images may get skipped. If you notice them missing from the final album just run it again and they will get picked up, I will add an automatic retry at some point so this doesn't happen.

Here is the link:
http://www.slm-tech.com/is2sm/default.aspx
and a sample album that it created:
http://scottvickers.smugmug.com/gallery/3473491

rainforest1155

Very cool tool! I'm sure this might be interesting for some folks. Worked just fine with my tiny iStock collection.

Thanks for sharing,
Sebastian