NAME

flickr_upload - Upload photos to flickr.com

SYNOPSIS

flickr_upload [--auth] --auth_token <auth_token> [--title <title>] [--description description] [--public <0|1>] [--friend <0|1>] [--family <0|1>] [--tag <tag>] <photos...>

DESCRIPTION

Uploads images to the Flickr.com service.

OPTIONS

--auth

The --auth flag will cause flickr_upload to generate an authentication token against it's API key and secret (or, if you want, your own specific key and secret). This process requires the caller to have a browser handy so they can cut and paste a url. The resulting token should be kept somewhere like ~/.flickrrc since it's necessary for actually uploading images.

--auth_token <auth_token>

Authentication token. Required.

--title <title>

Title to use on all the images. Optional.

--description <description>

Description to use on all the images. Optional.

--public <0|1>

Override the default is_public access control. Optional.

--friend <0|1>

Override the default is_friend access control. Optional.

--family <0|1>

Override the default is_friend access control. Optional.

--tag <tag>

Images are tagged with tag. Multiple --tag options can be given, or you can just put them all into a single space-separated list.

--key <api_key>

--secret <secret>

Your own API key and secret. This is useful if you want to use flickr_upload in auth mode as a token generator. You need both key and secret. Both key and secret can be placed in ~/.flickrrc, allowing you to mix flickr_upload with your own scripts using a single API key and authentication token.

<photos...>

List of photos to upload. Uploading stops as soon as a failure is detected during the upload. The script exit code will indicate the number of images on the command line that were not uploaded. For each uploaded image, a Flickr URL will be generated. flickr_upload uses asynchronous uploading so while the image is usually transferred fairly quickly, it might take a while before it's actually available to users. flickr_upload will wait around for that to complete, but be aware that delays of upwards of thirty minutes have (rarely) be know to occur.

CONFIGURATION

To avoid having to remember authentication tokens and such (or have them show up in the process table listings), default values will be read from $HOME/.flickrrc if it exists. Any field defined there can, of course, be overridden on the command line. For example:

# my config at $HOME/.flickrrc
auth_token=334455
is_public=0
is_friend=1
is_family=1

BUGS

Error handling could be better.

AUTHOR

Christophe Beauregard, cpb@cpan.org.

SEE ALSO

flickr.com

Flickr::Upload