Kind of a sad scene as the result of tonight's writing exercise
Recaptcha lately be like https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nbRyH6fkee0&feature=emb_title
Requested an archive of all my data from Flickr, since it looks like they're cracking down on freeloaders more soon. The archive came in the form of 20 ZIP files of about 1-2GB each, full of images with obscure names and stripped of any date information. I guess that's... cool?
I joined Flickr back in 2004 and have accumulated 9762 photos, many of which are not public. I guess I could pay for an account, but I haven't really used it since 2018.
Really all I want is a download of the photos organized at least by year. Guess I'll google round a bit for a script or utility that does that. I'd found a few over the years, but it seems like they've all bit-rotted
I guess there's an accompanying "account data" .zip with a bunch of .json files with ID numbers corresponding to part of all the filenames - so maybe I could apply modification times from those and sort things into folders if I can get them all to match up
Ohhh there's exif data on all the images, though. So that's handy at least!
Hey, you wanna see an ugly-ass shell script to munge Flickr JSON data into Flickr-exported image EXIF tags?
#!/bin/bash
for jsonfn in ./lmorchard-2022-flickr-backup-metadata/photo_*.json; do
photonum=$(echo $jsonfn | cut -d_ -f2 | cut -d. -f1);
photofn=$(ls -1 ./lmorchard-2022-flickr-backup-orig/*${photonum}* | head -1);
exiftool -m \
-o lmorchard-2022-flickr-backup-tagged \
-tagsfromfile $jsonfn \
"-DateTimeDigitized<Date_imported" "-DateTimeOriginal<Date_taken" "-ImageDescription<Description" "-DocumentName<Name" \
$photofn;
done
It's garbage, but at least now I have almost 20 years worth of photos sorted into folders by year
Oh yeah, and this exiftool command actually did the directory-sorting once all the metadata was crammed in from Flickr
exiftool -m -d %Y "-directory<DateTimeOriginal" ../lmorchard-2022-flickr-backup-tagged/
@jackbaty@mastodon.technology Every now and then I think it might be worth getting active with Flickr again. But these days, it's at an intersection of casual-social and prosumer photo management that doesn't quite justify the price for me alas
I'm totally not abusing a VPN to watch Eurovision 2022 on youtube
And Norway is why I'm totally not watching #eurovision via VPN
eurovision
ukraine was my fave last year, and they're my fave this year too
norway's close, though, just for sheer weird
bulgaria... I think that was an anime theme?
austria... was that a licensed song for Halo 3? ("finish the fight")