This is a script that can be run to import a tree structure of albums of images into Piwigo. Starting with a specified directory, this and all the sub-directories in the tree structure are written as albums in Piwigo with all their JPEG images and Descriptions.
Fork of original script which can be found on Piwigo extensions page : http://piwigo.org/ext/extension_view.php?eid=606
- Fix API call for Piwigo 2.6
- Allow to create and upload albums as private albums
The script is run using Perl. It requires perl-JSON extension
The script is run with variables supplied as follows:
perl piwigo_import_tree.pl
--base_url=http://address/of/your/piwigo
--user=admin_username
--password=??
--directory="my photos directory"
[--parent_album_id=NN]
[--private]
Where:
–-user=admin_username is an administrator on your gallery.
–-directory=“my photos directory” is the full or relative Path Name to the top of the Album Tree. (If the top directory contains spaces, surround it in double quotes)
–-parent_album_id=NN is the internal Piwigo Album ID of the parent album. This parameter is optional : if there is no parent album for the albums being loaded, omit this parameter.
--private allow to create album as private
In addition, if there is a record named *Descript.ion present in the directory, (such as that produced from Fotopic), this is read and the Caption for each Image is used as the Piwigo Image Title. These entries consist of lines containing the Image Filename and Caption, separated by a Tab. The default name of this record can be changed to another text file name.
The most useful part of this facility is that you can add more albums, images and descriptions to the tree structure and then re-run the script when just the new images will be transferred.