Trovebox API / Import companion for export- tools

Trovebox, a photo service for the masses

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Overview

This tool processes the files generated from the export-* tools such as export-flickr (repository on GitHub).

Running an export tool

Before you run an import you'll have to first run an export. If you haven't done this already pick the appropriate one below.

• https://github.com/photo/export-flickr
• https://github.com/photo/export-openphoto

Getting dependencies

The only dependency you need the trovebox module (repository on Github).

sudo pip install trovebox

Downloading the script

Using git

git clone git://github.com/photo/import.git

Using wget

mkdir import
wget -O import/import.py https://raw.github.com/photo/import/master/import.py --no-check-certificate

Using file->save

Click the link below and save the file into a directory named import.

https://raw.github.com/photo/import/master/import.py

Credentials

For full access to your photos, you need to create the following config file in ~/.config/trovebox/default

# ~/.config/trovebox/default
host = your.host.com
consumerKey = your_consumer_key
consumerSecret = your_consumer_secret
token = your_access_token
tokenSecret = your_access_token_secret

The config switch lets you specify a different config file.

To get your credentials:

• Log into your Trovebox site
• Click the arrow on the top-right and select 'Settings'
• Click the 'Create a new app' button
• Click the 'View' link beside the newly created app

Running the script

Start a terminal and enter the following.

cd import
# assuming you ran the export script from flickr copy the fetched files into this repository
cp -R ../export-flickr/fetched ./
# See above for instructions to get your credentials. The import script reads the config file by default.
python import.py 

Now the script will start processing your files.

Found a total of 6 files to process
Processing 1 of 6 6065502023.json ... OK
Processing 2 of 6 6109694637.json ... OK
Processing 3 of 6 6109694841.json ... OK
Processing 4 of 6 6109695003.json ... OK
Processing 5 of 6 6110240222.json ... OK
Processing 6 of 6 6110240318.json ... OK
Results. Processed: 6. Errored: 0.

The last line shows how many were processed and how many errors there were. If you quit the script while it's running you can simply rerun the python import.py command again and it will resume where it left off.

The processed files will be moved from fetched/ to processed/ unless there's an error, and in that case, they will endup in errored/. In case you try to import a duplicate, the file will instead be moved in duplicates/.

YAY

You can go to your Trovebox site and see all of your Flickr photos with tags, title and description all in tact.

Known issues

1. Should we try to fetch these in parallel?