Its like rsync for Flickr!
A python script to manage synchronising a local directory of photos with Flickr based on an rsync interaction pattern.
Install from the python package manager by
$ pip install flickr-rsync
Clone the GitHub repo locally
To install globally:
$ python setup.py install
To install for the current user only:
$ python setup.py install --user
Two keys are provided by Flickr, an api key and a secret. To make your application aware of these keys there are two methods:
- provide
--api-key
and--api-secret
arguments to the command line - create a config file in $HOME/.flickr-rsync.ini with the following entries
API_KEY = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
API_SECRET = yyyyyyyyyyyyyy
where x's and y's are replaced by the values provided by Flickr.
The --list-only
flag will print a list of files in the source storage provider, this can either be Flickr by specifying the src
as Flickr
or a local file system path. Use --sort-files
to sort the files alphabetically. This feature is useful for manually creating a diff between your local files and Flickr files.
e.g. List all files in Flickr photo sets
$ flickr-rsync flickr --list-only
Or List all files in a local folder
$ flickr-rsync ~/Pictures --list-only
You can change the output from a tree view to a comma separated values view by using --list-format=tree
or --list-format=csv
. By default the tree view is used.
e.g. Print in tree format
$ flickr-rsync flickr --list-only --list-format=tree
├─── 2017-04-24 Family Holiday
│ ├─── IMG_2546.jpg [70ebf9]
│ ├─── IMG_2547.jpg [3d3046]
│ ├─── IMG_2548.jpg [2f2385]
│ └─── IMG_2549.jpg [d8e946]
│
└─── 2017-04-16 Easter Camping
├─── IMG_2515.jpg [aabe74]
├─── IMG_2516.jpg [0eb4f2]
└─── IMG_2517.jpg [4fe908]
Or csv format
$ flickr-rsync flickr --list-only --list-format=csv
Folder, Filename, Checksum
2017-04-24 Family Holiday, IMG_2546.jpg, 70ebf9be4d8301e94c65582977332754
2017-04-24 Family Holiday, IMG_2547.jpg, 3d3046b37ba338793a762ab7bd83e85c
2017-04-24 Family Holiday, IMG_2548.jpg, 2f23853abeb742551043a3514ba4315b
2017-04-24 Family Holiday, IMG_2549.jpg, d8e946e73700b9c2890d3681c3c0fa0b
2017-04-16 Easter Camping, IMG_2515.jpg, aabe74b06c3a53e801893347eb6bd7f5
2017-04-16 Easter Camping, IMG_2516.jpg, 0eb4f2519f6562ff66069618637a7b10
2017-04-16 Easter Camping, IMG_2517.jpg, 4fe9085b9f320a67988f84e85338a3ff
To just list the top level folders (without all the files). use --list-folders
.
$ flickr-rsync ~/Pictures --list-folders
e.g. To copy all files from Flickr to a local folder
$ flickr-rsync flickr ~/Pictures/flickr
Or to copy all files from a local folder up to Flickr
$ flickr-rsync ~/Pictures/flickr flickr
You can even copy from a local folder to another local folder
$ flickr-rsync ~/Pictures/from ~/Pictures/to
Files are matched by folder names and file names. E.g. if you have a Flickr photoset called 2017-04-16 Easter Camping
and a file called IMG_2517.jpg
, and you are trying to copy from a folder with 2017-04-16 Easter Camping\IMG_2517.jpg
it will assume this file is the same and will not try to copy it.
flickr-rsync
will never delete any files, either from Flickr or your local system, it is append only. It will not overwrite any files either, if a file with the same name exists in the same photoset / folder, it will be skipped.
Filtering is done using regular expressions. The following four options control filtering the files:
--include=
specifies a pattern that file names must match to be included in the operation--include-dir=
specifies a pattern that folder names must match to be included in the operation--exclude=
specifies a pattern that file names must NOT match to be included in the operation--exclude-dir=
specifies a pattern that folder names must NOT match to be included in the operation
Note that filtering by folders is more performant than by file names, prefer folder name filtering where possible.
Also note that exclude filters take preference and will override include filters.
Note that filtering does not apply to root files, root files (files in the target folder if local file system, or files not in a photoset on Flickr) are excluded by default. To include them, use --root-files
.
All options can be provided by either editing the config file flickr-rsync.ini
or using the command line interface.
usage: flickr-rsync [-h] [-l] [--list-format {tree,csv}] [--list-sort]
[--include REGEX] [--include-dir REGEX] [--exclude REGEX]
[--exclude-dir REGEX] [--root-files] [-n]
[--throttling SEC] [--retry NUM] [--api-key API_KEY]
[--api-secret API_SECRET] [--tags "TAG1 TAG2"] [-v]
[--version]
[src] [dest]
A python script to manage synchronising a local directory of photos to flickr
positional arguments:
src the source directory to copy or list files from, or
FLICKR to specify flickr
dest the destination directory to copy files to, or FLICKR
to specify flickr
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-l, --list-only list the files in --src instead of copying them
--list-format {tree,csv}
output format for --list-only, TREE for a tree based
output or CSV
--list-sort sort alphabetically when --list-only, note that this
forces buffering of remote sources so will be slower
--list-folders lists only folders (no files, implies --list-only)
-c, --checksum calculate file checksums for local files. Print
checksum when listing, use checksum for comparison
when syncing
--include REGEX include only files matching REGEX. Defaults to
media file extensions only
--include-dir REGEX include only directories matching REGEX
--exclude REGEX exclude any files matching REGEX, note this takes
precedent over --include
--exclude-dir REGEX exclude any directories matching REGEX, note this
takes precedent over --include-dir
--root-files includes roots files (not in a directory or a
photoset) in the list or copy
-n, --dry-run in sync mode, don't actually copy anything, just
simulate the process and output
--throttling SEC the delay in seconds (may be decimal) before each
network call
--retry NUM the number of times to retry a network call before
failing
--api-key API_KEY flickr API key
--api-secret API_SECRET
flickr API secret
--tags "TAG1 TAG2" space seperated list of tags to apply to uploaded
files on flickr
-v, --verbose increase verbosity
--version show program's version number and exit
The config file flickr-rsync.ini
and Flickr token file flickr-rsync.token
are searched for in the following locations in order:
<current working dir>/flickr-rsync.ini
<current working dir>/.flickr-rsync.ini
<users home dir>/flickr-rsync.ini
<users home dir>/.flickr-rsync.ini
<executable dir>/flickr-rsync.ini
<executable dir>/.flickr-rsync.ini
Either install using the 'standalone' method or install in development mode so source files are symlinked
$ python setup.py develop
Then to uninstall
$ python setup.py develop --uninstall
Based on http://peterdowns.com/posts/first-time-with-pypi.html
- Create a new GitHub release (e.g. v1.1.1)
- Update
flickr_rsync/_version.py
with the new version number (e.g. 1.1.1) - Push to PyPI
$ python setup.py sdist upload
$ python setup.py test -q
Or
$ python -m unittest discover -s tests -p '*_test.py'
To list just root files only:
$ flickr-rsync flickr --exclude-dir '.*' --root-files --list-only
If you're running Mac OSX El Capitan and you get the following error when running python setup.py test
pkg_resources.VersionConflict: (six 1.4.1 (/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.fra
mework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python), Requirement.parse('six>=1.9'))
Do the following:
$ sudo pip install --ignore-installed six
More details pypa/pip#3165
To access Flickr this application needs API keys, go to http://www.flickr.com/services/apps/create/apply to sign up for a free personal API key
Getting an error The Flickr API keys have not been set
but you've set them in the config file? Perhaps the application can't find the config file location. Use -v
or --verbose
option to print the location of the config file being used.
By default only media files are included in file listings and sync operations. Media files are defined as \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|tiff|tif|bmp|psd|svg|raw|wmv|avi|mov|mpg|mp4|3gp|ogg|ogv|m2ts)$
. Use --include=.*
to include all files.
If you're seeing an error like this
WindowsError: [Error 123] The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect: 'C:\\Users\\xxx\\Pictures" --list-only/*.*'
Ensure that you are not using single quotes '
around a folder path in windows, instead use double quotes "
. e.g.
$ flickr-rsync "C:\Users\xxx\Pictures" --list-only
flickr-rsync uses the keyword flickr
as a src or dest to denote pulling the list from flickr. If you have a folder called flickr, just give it a relative or absolute path make it obvious that it's a file path, e.g.
$ flickr-rsync ./flickr --list-only
- Improve retry and throttling, now uses exponential backoff
- Use python logging framework, outputs log messages to stderr
- Flickr converts .jpeg to .jpg extensions, so consider them the same when comparing for sync
- Handle nested directories (merge with separator) (apply --include-dir after merging)
- List duplicate files
- Use checksum matching to avoid uploading duplicate files
- Multi-threading - is it needed?
- Webpage for successful Flickr login
- Optimise - why does sort files seem to run faster?!
- Fix duplicate albums issue
- Why does it make 3 api calls for every photo in --list-only --list-sort mode?
- --mirror. Yep, delete photos from target, but don't make it easy
- --init to setup a new .ini file and walk through auth process