While you were out... 2013-03-23 23:58:00 GMT
It took me a year minus a week, but I just put a new semi-official version of the Whileyouwereout iPhoto-Tumblr export plugin online. For now it’s called version 0.1.9 and it has photo sets and tagging included.
Didn’t pay too much attention to the plugin until getting some unexpected requests for support in the last 2 weeks and I’ll try to be more attentive again in the future.
I’ll take out the, broken, auto-update, for the next release so people can see for themselves which version works for them. For now this has been tested with OSX Super-Mega Lion and iPhoto ‘11.
If you have any problems with it don’t hesitate to send me an email.
2013-03-23 17:19:00 GMT
Waiting for DNS propagation I’m actually updating the iPhoto plugin…with tags and photo sets.
While you where out...(whileyouwereout edition II) 2012-04-24 21:41:00 GMT
If you feel like trying out the plugin in the current test version you can download a test installer here.
While you where out...(whileyouwereout edition) 2012-04-24 19:59:00 GMT
So, after recently making sure the new iPhoto and osx Lion worked for the iPhoto to Tumblr plugin, I finally got the photoset publishing working today.
On that note.
I’m planning to publish a new version next sunday and I figured I could use some feedback. So some quick issues/questions….
- I’ve been having some issues with the auto-update and was wondering if this is something people want to begin with or, with someone who develops this on a non-regular basis, do you prefer to do it manually?
- Do you want to tag?
- Do you want to schedule?
- What would be the ideal way to preview a photo set?
Would you like to see the pictures separately or as a preview how it will look as a set? (the default setting, no choice from Tumblr, is the first layout) - Anything you’re missing in the FAQ on the website?
- Should I put/would-you-be-annoyed-if-I-would-put a, Instagram-like, “posted with” message there?
I know it’s a niche amount of people who use this, but it would be nice to get some feedback
You can either answer or send an email to j-swirlycharacter-stimulusresponse.org
(?)
2012-04-24 15:22:00 GMT
Testing the photosets for the iPhoto exporter
(edit…and it worked. This is going to be a promising weekend)
While you were out...(plugin update edition) 2012-03-31 09:44:22 GMT
…and then life got in the way in a big way.
I’ll try to update the plugin mini-site a bit this weekend, but until then there is a very untested new version of the WhileYouWereOut iPhoto plugin.
I updated to the latest version of iPhoto this week and the memory issues should be resolved, but keep in mind that it’s just me testing it.
I hope to have some more feedback in the next couple of days, until then…have fun!
Upcoming While you were out... 2011-10-17 13:17:00 GMT
It’s been a while since I posted any updates on my tumblr iPhoto plugin, mostly because it’s been a while since I did any work on it!
Starting a new job and finishing up running projects took more time and energy than I expected, but, as far as I can tell, the future is looking a bit more relaxing.
In other words expect 0.1.7 either this or the following sunday.
Upcoming features:
- batches (Hurray!)
- queu (Hurray?)
...and on that note. 2011-09-11 12:39:00 GMT
you can get the iPhoto->tumblr export plugin version 0.1.6 here
While you were out... 2011-09-11 12:35:00 GMT
In the last week I had some kind of stomach flu thingy and had my first full week at my, awesome, new job. This might have restrained me from posting a lot, but not from doing some work on the iPhoto plug-in.
Friday night I finally got the complete v2 API version finished, which means that picture uploads now go through the new API as well (which took me forever), fixed quite a stupid bug on the login and encrypted the hell out of the saved user info.
Yesterday I still tried getting the sets upload to work, but to no avail and I figured it would be better to release these updates now than to wait another week and (possibly) have the sets as well.
One of the nastier things I kept on running into with uploading the images signed with OAuth was that either my images weren’t accepted or the authentication failed.
After a lot (A LOT) of messing around I ended up adding all the parameters as a regular POST request. Subsequently signing the request. THEN turning it into a multi-part request and adding the image before sending it as such:
(Still "application/x- www-form-urlencoded")
[request setParameters:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:
[OARequestParameter requestParameter:@“type” value:@“photo”],
[OARequestParameter requestParameter:@“state” value:[[tumblrStatus titleOfSelectedItem] lowercaseString]],
[OARequestParameter requestParameter:@“caption” value:[tumblrCaptions stringValue]],
[OARequestParameter requestParameter:@“click-through-url” value:[[tumblrClickthrough stringValue] lowercaseString]],
nil]];
//sign the OA request
[request prepare];
(Cut for brevity)
while (attachedImageCount < [mExportMgr imageCount]) {
[imageAttachments addObject:[NSString stringWithFormat:@“data[%i]”,attachedImageCount]];
[imageAttachments addObject:@“WhileYouWereOut”];
[imageAttachments addObject:@“image/jpeg”];
[imageAttachments addObject:[NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:[mExportMgr imagePathAtIndex:attachedImageCount]]];
attachedImageCount++;
}
(Following method turns the form into "multipart/form-data" and adds the files)
[request attachFiles:imageAttachments];
(As you can see all the photos selected in iPhoto are already attached and send, but only the first one is accepted by the server so far)
Somehow this doesn’t feel like OAuth is supposed to work, but to hell with it…it’s running!
2011-08-29 11:58:00 GMT
while you were out... 2011-08-29 11:57:00 GMT
Last night, after some major headaches through the weekend, I finally got the 0.1.5 version of my iPhoto/Tumblr export plugin online.
I’m taking a day of to lie around and read before starting to work on the sets.
Expect random cat pictures.
2011-08-21 17:44:00 GMT
After going through a couple of titles, I figured the most appropriate title (though it sounds vain) and complying to Tumblr’s API user agreement ends up being…WhileYouWereOut for my iPhoto tumblr plugin.
Extra bonus is that I don’t have to actually run an extra tumblr for updates,
but will just post it here.
It’s still very, very, rough around the edges, but Andre is a great help with all things related to those pesky things called “users” and I figure I’ll be running updates non-stop during the next week before I’m actually employed again.
If you’re running OSX 10.6 (haven’t checked anything else yet) and feel like helping me out a little bit…iPhoto exports to Tumblr plugin right —> here
2011-08-19 13:44:00 GMT
Finally!!!
My first iPhoto export post…now on to the most hated aspect of building applications…
User interface!
+ first preview yet another new project.