flickrsmartsync - Sync/backup your photos to flickr easily

flickrsmartsync is a tool you can use to easily sync up or down your photos in a drive/folder to flickr since now it has a free 1TB storage you can probably sync all your photo collection.

Install

Simply run the following:

$ python setup.py install

or PyPi:

$ pip install flickrsmartsync

Example Usage

Both run from source and command line have same parameters:

start uploading all photos/videos under that folder
$ flickrsmartsync
ignore videos for others use --help
$ flickrsmartsync --ignore-videos

start downloading all photos on flickr to that folder
$ flickrsmartsync --download .

start downloading all paths starting with that path
$ flickrsmartsync --download 2008/2008-01-01

Generate custom set titles from YEAR/MONTH/DAY folder hierarchy:
$  flickrsmartsync --custom-set='(?:.*)((?:19|20)\d{2})/(\d{2})/(\d{2})' --custom-set-builder '{0}-{1}-{2}'

for direct python access
$ python flickrsmartsync

Change log

0.2.02 (2017-02-11)

• added --fix-missing-description option (thanks jruusu)
• added --dry-run option (thanks jruusu)

0.2.01 (2015-02-17)

• added --custom-set-debug for testing custom sets output
• added --ignore-ext comma separated extensions to ignore

0.2.00 (2015-02-15)

• Refactor code into sync, local and remote classes
• Add test cases that do a limited test of each class in isolation
• Add a sync-from=all command line option that allows a download of any remote file not on local, and upload of any local file not on remote as discussed in #22
• Add retries on uploads and downloads
• Add a file extension on download if one doesn't exist
• Incorporate pull request #32 which fixes #31 with slight changes
• Thanks thomascobb

0.1.18 (2014-11-14)

• browser-less authentication

0.1.17 (2014-08-12)

• allow filtering files to upload by IPTC keyword (thanks ricardokirkner)
• updated flickrapi 1.4.4

0.1.16 (2014-06-30)

• flickr api changes use https

0.1.15 (2014-05-30)

• monitor folder support (--monitor)

0.1.14.3 (2014-05-18)

• encoding bug

0.1.14.2 (2014-04-15)

• send script output to syslog for headless convience (thanks dahlb)

0.1.14 (2014-02-25)

• added --starts-with param
• added --version param
• bug fix not uploading files properly

0.1.12 (2014-02-15)

• added custom set title
• character encoding bugs
• skip failures

0.1.11 (2013-07-09)

• added mts video
• added folder utf8 encoding to avoid dups
• added sorting for each folders

0.1.10 (2013-07-07)

• sorted photo sets
• ignore files > 1gb

0.1.9 (2013-06-28)

• added --sync-path param

0.1.8 (2013-06-25)

• ignore hidden folders/folders
• added video support
• added new params for skipping video/images

0.1.7 (2013-06-15)

• added run from source

0.1 (2013-06-13)

Links

• github.com - source code
• altlimit.com - website
• blog post - blog post