Dreamhost now provide ZenPhoto, an online image gallery software, as a one click install application, as the ZenPhoto developers proudly announce. I decided to give it a try to host my personal pics, and I definitely recommend it, the most outstanding feature being its unbloatedness (see demo site). It’s just what it is supposed to be - “a simpler web photo gallery” as the official webpage of ZenPhoto states.
However, the one-click install at DreamHost suffers from a severe problem which is that they do not provide ftp/scp access to upload pictures. This means that uploading a huge photo album is *painfully* slow a process, since the only available option is to manually upload each file using HTML forms.
In my free time, I’ve created an application to upload pics there, as a way to exercise my python programming skills and as my first peek at PyGTK programming. In case you give it a try, the program requires the PyGTK and mechanize python modules be installed in the system. It has only been tested on my gentoo linux box. Should work on other linux distros and bsd, probably also for mac os. Will *not* work on Microsoft Windows as it is (contributions to this regard will be welcome). UPDATE: peter at majorsilence dot com has kindly provided a patch that makes it work on windows.
An option to overcome the need for such a software utility is to install ZenPhoto normally (as opposed to using DreamHost’s one-click installation) and to upload the files using any scp client (e.g. WinSCP).
Disclaimer: this software is in ultra initial development state and may do horrible things to your albums. Software comes with no warranty. Please check the attached license terms.
Download zpu (ZenPhoto Uploader) version 0.1 here.
Download zpu (ZenPhoto Uploader) version 0.2 here.
Please leave a comment here if you download it - whether successful or not.
11 Comments
Works great. For reference, in ubuntu 08.04 I had to run:
sudo apt-get install python-mechanize python-gtk2 python-glade2
Thank you!
Glad to know it was useful to someone else :)
Thanks for the program. It is exactly what I was looking for. I have patched it so it will also work on Windows (http://www.majorsilence.com/apps/zpu/zpu.diff).
Thanks! I’ve gone ahead and assumed I am allowed to incorporate your code, and released it under v0.2.
Works on Mac OS X Leopard. (Though, building PyGTK from source is not for the faint of heart) Thanks for saving us from the pain of single photo uploads!
works fine with my opensuse 11.1 using “zypper install python-mechanize python-gtk2″. thank you.
It doesn’t run on cygwin. =(
Nothing happens (after installing all the necessary modules).
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