GitHub User Turns a Raspberry Pi Into an Automatic Flickr Uploader
GitHub User Turns a Raspberry Pi Into an Automatic Flickr Uploader...
Earlier this year, Flickr began charging $5.99/month for users looking to effortless upload their pictures from the desktop. Those wishing to save a couple of bucks can now thank Eduardo Balsa.
“This seemed like a great chance to play with my Raspberry Pi 3.”
The developer has created Flickrup, a Python script that uploads images from a USB drive or storage card to your account, with viewing rights set to Private, whenever it’s connected to a Raspberry Pi .
Once done, the script will notify you via email along with a log file and then unmount the storage device so you can remove it. It’s a faily simple little program, but a clever way for annoyed Flickr users to get around the paywall.
I’ve always used Flickr as the main backup repository for my DSLR photos, but I have to admit that their desktop uploading solution was never one that I really liked…
Usually I don’t like to have to leave my workstation on just to upload photos, and I don’t like to use it while photos are being uploaded because the bandwidth usage makes Chrome extremely slow, so I decided that I needed a way to upload my photos as automatically as possible (at least the JPG versions, the RAW/NEF files are a different story).
Interested? Balsa has made it all available on GitHub.