oPromessa/flickr-uploader

Allow use as individual photo uploader ONLY (no sync)

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ClaireCJS commented

What's the problem this feature will solve?

I need a command-line flickr uploader, and this one looks perfect. But this one is written with a different problem in mind.

Describe the solution you'd like

I would like a mode to simply upload a single JPG, which takes the command-line parameters for filename, tags, descriptions, but which doesn't do any of the image-signature or syncing logic. Just a simple upload.

Additional context

I have my own homegrown uploading system I use, but the command-line uploader part that I didn't write broke on June 1st, 2019. This would be a perfect replacement for that.

oPromessa commented

Hmmm. Got it!

Questions:

  • no check for duplicates, then?
  • no assigment to a particular album also?

Let me give it some thought...

Thanks!

ClaireCJS commented

Exactly. Just a simple upload.

My background is, I've written a ~40,000-line ecosystem of my own homebrewed code around the chunk that does the upload -- which is what broke June 1st. The code is mostly to deal with my own proprietary tagging system that I implemented way before Flickr ever existed, and converting that into acceptable command-line options for the existing command-line uploader that I have used daily for over 10 years.

I don't use albums. I do everything by tag. The command-line commands issued in this case often exceed 8K or 16K characters, hahahaha. I write some long stories in my captions sometimes.

So really it's not a matter of what code needs to be written, as much as what code needs to be skipped over. The Elephant Principle is really applicable to this situation :)