Is Flickr a hard drive in the sky for you?

Got photos everywhere and not sure which are on the web and which are languishing in digital obscurity?

Point pif at 'em; a single JPEG, or a whole directory. It don't matter! pif will chat with Flickr and line-up the stragglers.

Then, if you want to upload them, pif can do that too.

Well, let me tell you!

1. Have some photos!

   Do you have some photos?

   $ ls
   croppedDSC00375.JPG
   DSC00381.JPG
   DSC00404.JPG
   IMG_0283.JPG
   IMG_0486.JPG
   IMG_3405r.jpg
   smaller.jpg
   

   I guess you do.

2. Run pif!

   $ pif
   $
   

   Uh. I meant...

3. Use, like, the options, man!

   $ pif --help
   Usage: pif [options] <filename ...>
   
   Options:
     -h, --help     show this help message and exit
     -v, --verbose  increase verbosity
     -f, --force    force file(s) to be uploaded
     -m, --mark     mark file(s) as uploaded
     -n, --dry-run  do not upload file(s)
   

   Yes. That! That is what I meant!

   $ pif --verbose --dry-run .
   INFO:pif.ui.console: Would have uploaded croppedDSC00375.JPG
   INFO:pif.ui.console: Would have uploaded DSC00381.JPG
   INFO:pif.ui.console: Would have uploaded DSC00404.JPG
   INFO:pif.ui.console: IMG_0283.JPG already uploaded, skipping (use --force to upload)
   INFO:pif.ui.console: IMG_0486.JPG already uploaded, skipping (use --force to upload)
   INFO:pif.ui.console: Would have uploaded IMG_3405r.jpg
   INFO:pif.ui.console: Would have uploaded smaller.jpg
   

   See those photos already uploaded? THEY ARE ON FLICKR.

4. But, uh, what about those bad photos...

   $ pif --verbose --mark croppedDSC00375.JPG IMG_3405r.jpg smaller.jpg
   INFO:pif.ui.console: croppedDSC00375.JPG marked as already uploaded
   INFO:pif.ui.console: IMG_3405r.jpg  marked as already uploaded
   INFO:pif.ui.console: smaller.jpg marked as already uploaded
   

   What about them?

   $ pif --verbose .
   INFO:pif.ui.console: Uploaded DSC00381.JPG
   INFO:pif.ui.console: Uploaded DSC00404.JPG
   

   All done. Believe me?

   $ pif --verbose .
   INFO:pif.ui.console:Loading updates from Flickr... (1 / 1)
   INFO:pif.ui.console:Indexing photos on Flickr... (1 / 2)
   INFO:pif.ui.console:Indexing photos on Flickr... (2 / 2)
   $
   

   SNAP! That was pif, figuring out your photos were well and truly uploaded. No half-assery here!

OK.

    $ pif-gtk .

    $ aptitude install python-gobject python-gtk2 python-imaging \
                       python-setuptools python-minimock python-nose