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Migratr - Migrate Between Photo Services
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Stored in: Flickr Hacks
Posted On: August 05 2007
By: Bryan Partington
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There are lots of photo sharing services out there these days, and many of them have APIs that allow applications to interact with them.
The problem is that these various services don't interact with each other very much, so spreading your photographic presence across the web is somewhat more dificult than it really ought to be.
Enter 'Migratr', an application that will automatically transfer photos between various photosharing services, keeping your meta-data [like descriptions, titles, tags and sets] as intact as algorithmically possible.
Migratr works by downloading photos from one service to your hard-drive, then turning around and uploading them to another service along with the meta-data it retrieved from the first service.
This means that you're going to need enough space on your hard-drive to store all of the photos from your "source" account. If you have a lot of photos, this can present a problem. You're also going to need a lot of time to wait for photos to download and then re-upload. If you have a lot of photos, this can also be a problem.
In an ideal world, photo services would simply 'sideload' between each other, eliminating the need to flow the transfer through a local hard drive. Unfortunately, the politics inherent when competing services directly interacting with one another are overwhelming.
So until the day we emerge into a digital utopia where photos flit freely from service to service like beautiful butterflies on bright beams of summertime sun, Migratr is the best solution for getting accounts full of photos circulating about the web.
Provided, of course, that you're running Windows.
.. and .NET 2.0
Otherwise, in Flickr Hacks:
- Previously: Flickr Can't Fail
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