Thursday, January 27, 2005 9:01 AM
Well it look like I'm not the first to realize the need to get Picasa albums online! In this post, Ben asks why Picasa won't work better with blog software. Not that my photo importer is hot stuff yet, but it does address the fundamental need to take Picasa pictures and get them onto a blog easily, with captions and albums preserved. Since is uses the Save as Web Page (XML format) feature it only works for one album at a time, but I'm very pleased with how it's coming along so far. As a matter of fact, I'm not limiting myself to Picasa. I also have a basic import provider that just uses photos in folders (ZIP'd up). The code is nothing spectacular, but it works well. The only downside is it is intended to run on the server. I should look at the web service API and see how well it might work remotely. On the other hand it is more portable if you can access it on the server. Maybe both options make sense.
Also, maybe just sending them to a gallery isn't good enough. Would it make more sense to post them to actual entries? My personal need was for galleries so that's what I did. Or maybe a “notification” flag could be implemented to post a blog entry saying “{x} photos added to {y} gallery” or some such thing. I can see that making sense.