Jeffrey’s “Export to Flickr” Lightroom Plugin
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This Export-to-Flickr plugin has been completely rewritten for Lightroom 2.0 and later, and is not compatible with Lightroom 1.
Please see the known issues before reporting bugs. If this is your first look at my export plugins, please see the announcement post for an overview and some important information.
(See the old plugin page for a version compatible with Lightroom 1.x)
| 20081204.58 | Try to work around a fairly rare Lightroom bug that sometimes causes large exports to fail with the note Whoa, exported image doesn't exist after waitForRender by pausing for a few seconds to see whether the image shows up. If not, then you still get the error and the export fails. |
| 20081129.57 | There have been a lot of spurious errors that some have seen that I think I've tracked down to a race condition at Flickr, where immediately after uploading a photo, the data hasn't propagated through Flickr yet, so when the plugin tries to set some metadata (add to a set, for example), it could see a "no such photo" error. I this version, I've added a retry ability.... I think. It's hard to test because I've never gotten the error myself. We'll see.... |
| 20081127.56 | The counting of previous uploads (for the All/Update/New of the Upload Destination section) was not working right. |
| 20081127.55 | Added some extra debugging to try to track down networking errors. |
| 20081125.54 | Well, I've added something to the "Flickr Extras..." dialog (via the File > Plugin Extras Menu) that, in theory, should allow you to connect previously-uploaded images at Flickr to your Lightroom Library. Select the images you want to check and invoke it. I didn't spend much effort to make it efficient, so it may take a few minutes if you invoke it on 30,000 images at once. It also may not work well in various edge cases, such as multiple images taken during the same second (because neither Lightroom nor Flickr give easy access to photo times down beyond one-second granularity). Another fix for a bug that had disabled plugin presets (for captions, etc.). Anyway, it's a start... give it a try and let me know what you think. |
| 20081124.53 | Perhaps fixed a problem whereby the "Upgrade Now" button didn't work for some Windows users. We'll see whether it works when those users upgrade from this version to whatever version is next. |
| 20081123.52 | Fixed a plugin crash when using the plugin's built-in preset system. |
| 20081122.51 | No problems from the upheaval recently, so pushing back the expiration a bit. |
| 20081118.50 | Fixed (I think) a problem with tags that have embedded commas. Flickr's documentation of how to upload tags does not reflect reality (that is, it's wrong), so it's a matter of trying to figure out what works.... |
| 20081118.49 | The same as .48, just to test whether the one-click upgrade stuff actually works in .48. |
| 20081117.48 | Oops, wouldn't let you log in / authenticate if you weren't already. Doh. Fixed. |
| 20081117.47 | No new functionality in this version, but a huge upheaval in the underlying code to repair an unfortunate design choice I made early on in the development that had limiting consequences I'd not foreseen. There are likely bugs introduced in this version, and as such, it has a short expiration date to encourage updates as those bugs are reported and fixed. If you do run into an error, please send (via email) the log referenced in the upper-right of the Plugin Manager. Thanks. |
| 20081113.46 | Fixed yet another list-of-upload-destinations bug. There are sure a lot of edge cases here. Also, deal with Flickr's roadblocks to geoencoding happiness. By default, Flickr ignores geoencoded information until you tell it not two, twice, in two separate places. See the bottom of the "Flickr: Metadata Management" section of the plugin for details / links. |
| 20081111.45 | Fixed a crash that happened sometimes when there are not yet any preexisting destinations at Flickr. |
| 20081104.44 | Perhaps squelch a spurious error dialog |
| 20081103.43 | I don't know what's causing the slew of networking problems that have been reported, but I've gone ahead and added a retry mechanism. It'll retry operations that failed due to network problems indefinitely, but you can cancel out of the retrys if you like. If the problems are some kind of flakiness on the machine (somehow introduced in LR2.1???) this may allow operations to complete. |
| 20081031.42 | Now works properly with the shadow GPS data maintained by my geoencoding plugin. |
| 20081024.41 | Added an option to not add Lightroom keywords as metadata when uploading images. This allows you to not send any keywords if you also have them stripped from the image itself, such as when enabling the "Minimize Embedded Metadata" option, or when stripping keywords with my Metadata Wrangler. This applies only to keywords in the Lightroom library that are marked for export; those not marked for export are never sent. (Also related, recall that due to a Lightroom bug, images in a catalog upgraded from Lightroom 1.x with Lightroom 2.0 lost the ability to export keywords until a fix is applied.) |
| 20081022.40 | Addressed (and perhaps even fixed) a bug introduced in the previous build. |
| 20081021.39 | Small update so that a stuck background version check does not disable the plugin. Added a message in the login area with instructions on how to use the plugin with multiple accounts. Added the ability to put the "select at time of export" item at the top of the destination list, as had been requested a few times. Added some items to the template language that had inexplicably been missing: {HH}, {MIN}, {hh}, {min}, {ss}. |
| 20081015.38 | Internal change to the user-agent string that the plugin sends when uploading, to better conform to web standards Added back the ability to set the print size via DPI and inches/cm. I think it's more confusing than anything (because it has nothing to do with what size something gets printed at unless you take care to set the printer DPI the same), but someone asked for it and I should really leave it up to the user. The plugin now allows you to use any color space registered on your computer when generating images to upload. I don't think this will be useful for very many people, but perhaps it might be a benefit when combined with some printing services(?) |
| 20081007.37 | Fixed a problem with the newly added "refresh tags" stuff: extra tags in the refresh dialog derived from template tokens were not being computed for each image, but instead, were being reused from the first image. Fixed. |
| 20080929.36 | I've included in this release a first try at a "refresh tags for previously-uploaded photos", added to the Flick Extras page (See File > Plug-in Extras > Flickr Extras...).
Please note that this is a one-way refresh and not a two-way sync. All tags already at Flickr for the selected photos will be deleted, replaced by the current set of tags from the Lightroom library and/or the update dialog. Tags that had been manually added at Flickr will be lost.. A two-way sync is not in the cards because the Lightroom plugin architecture does not support the plugin adding/deleting keywords in the Lightroom catalog. The UI is pretty rough, and I'll likely move this to its own dialog at some point. Test it gingerly on a few images to make sure it works before using it whole-heartedly, just to be safe. |
| 20080925.35 | I've added a "Group Pools" section, to see how it works. It allows you to add the uploaded photos to a single group pool. I can expand on this with tag-based pool stuff if there's a demand... |
| 20080924.34 | Fixed a race condition that sometimes caused the export destination to not appear in the synopsis of a closed "Upload Destination" dialog section. Also fixed an issue whereby doing a "replace" would abort when the image previously uploaded to Flickr was no longer present at Flickr. Now, if the image isn't there anymore, the "replace" turns into a simple upload. (A "replace" goes to whatever the gallery the original was in; but a replace that turns into an upload goes to the export's destination gallery.) Moved the items in the "Upload Management" section into the "Upload Destination" section, since they are really quite related. |
| 20080923.33 | I created a "Metadata Management" section in the dialog, and moved some things into that from other sections. This prepared things for another big change that allows you to control some of the Flickr metadata via keywords. You can now configure the upload to work such that “images with such-and-such a keyword are marked private, while those with this-n-that a keyword are visible to friends only, while all others are visible to everyone.” You can do this with image visibility, the Flickr "safety level", the image type, and whether the image should be included in the Flickr image search. It's better to encode your intended status into the Lightroom database, via keywords, rather than something ephemeral like a changeable setting in a dialog. |
| 20080923.32 | Added a note to the export dialog that the “replace” option is meant to update the image only, and not the metadata. That's the whole point of Flickr's replace — so that you can update the image without diddling its caption, tags, etc., or removing it from whatever groups it's in. For the future, I'll work on something that allows one to update metadata separately.... |
| 20080923.31 | Sigh, just realized that the "check for new version" stuff did break in 2.1. Totally my fault, sorry. Fixed. |
| 20080921.30 | There seems to be a bug in the Flickr API that disallows an empty title or description on upload. I now include a workaround that blanks out such a title/description immediately after the upload, when needed. |
| 20080920.29 | Enhanced the {Rating} token to allow {Rating=*} to create "*****" through "". You can put most anything instead of the asterisk, so you might consider {Rating=great } to end up with "great great great". Since these forms result in nothing for an unrated photo, you can use the "|" pipe to provide a default "when empty" value, such as "rating": {Rating=*|"unrated"} |
| 20080918.28 | Added the ability to use template tokens like {Filename} in the "extra tags" input box. |
| 20080916.27 | Update an error message to reflect an apparent bug in LR that causes LR to hand off a file to my plugin for upload before the file is actually available. This seems to happen when using LR/Mogrify or other filters. Updated the url shown in the "status" section of the plugin manager |
| 20080916.26 | Finally have the upgrade button working on both Win and Mac. Since I returned home last week, I now have access to both kinds of machine for the first time since LR2 was released. I can sum up the 5 hours I spent wrestling with the unzip code in three word: I hate Windows. Microsoft owes me five hours of my life back. Note that you may have to install this one by hand in order to get the newly working upgrade button... it's the next upgrade that should be easy-as-click. |
| 20080914.25 | Added a few more descriptive tooltips to the example-token dialog |
| 20080914.24 | Oops, fixed a boo-boo introduced in the previous version. |
| 20080914.23 | Remember (again) the upload-destination across exports. It used to work, and I'm not sure when it stopped working, but it must have been really annoying while it was broken, sorry. |
| 20080914.22 | Fixed tokens "OriginalWidth" and "OriginalHeight" in templates. Added a bunch of new template tokens and a new token filter. Added a token-examples button, which brings up a dialog listing all tokens and their value for an example photo (the first photo in the export list). |
| 20080905.21 | Fixed an "undefined global: DestinationSynopsis" error that could happen when using a preset with a "select at export time" upload-destination setting |
| 20080904.20 | Added support for auto-generated destinations (see the "auto dests" button near the destination-photoset pulldown). Disable/ignore "replace" for non-pro accounts. No longer report "couldn't delete prior image" errors, since that's not really an error in the light of for our workflow. |
| 20080831.19 | Handle a race condition in the upgrade logic that sometimes results in a superfluous "You have version XYZ, but version XYZ is now available" message |
| 20080829.18 | Added a bunch of new items to the template language. |
| 20080829.17 | Oops, left some debugging cruft that results in an "empty" dialog if the logged-in-user has no galleries or the like. Fixed. |
| 20080828.16 | fix |
| 20080828.15 | Minor tweaks |
| 20080828.14 | A few more tweaks to report a failed upgrade attempt a bit more clearly |
| 20080828.13 | Whoo-hoo, finally figured out the "assert" problem that some people without photosets were having. When upgrading, ignore a status of “50” (which means “out of disk space”) from the unzip the plugin performs. It seems Windows often reports this status even when there's plenty of disk space left, so until I can understand it better, I'll just ignore that code. |
| 20080827.12 | Fixed the Caption {Filetype} token (was broken for DNGs). Layout tweaks in my preset dialogs. Made some Layout tweaks in my preset dialogs. |
| 20080817.11 | Lots of little tweaks as I cleaned things up. Added a bunch of stuff to the Plugin Manager, including a “What's New” button that shows up next to the “Upgrade Now” button when a new version is available. |
| 20080814.10 | Fixed infinite cycle of 'assert' messages one might get in odd situations |
| 20080812.9 | Fixes (I hope) a "bad argument #1 to '?' (table expected, got nil)" error |
| 20080811.8 | Moved and renamed the debugging logs to a temporary folder, and added log Show/Delete buttons to the plugin's custom section of the Plugin Manager. |
| 20080806.7 | Fixed {State} and {Rating} in preset templates. |
| 20080805.6 | Oops, the Windows versions had lost the ability to upgrade themselves. Once this version is installed manually, subsequent versions should be able to upgrade as discussed here. |
| 20080804.5 | Fixed "Access to undefined global: LrError" error that happens when trying to report a login-related problem. |
| 20080804.4 | Fixed a couple of internal errors related to the "choose destination at time of export" feature |
| 20080804.3 | Export Presets should now work. |
| 20080731.2 | Added the public/private/friends, etc., options that I forgot to include from the v1 plugin. |
| 20080729.1 | Initial public release |
Great job, the new plugin looks wonderful!
Quick bug reports on the bleeding edge–
Using “{Rating}” in the new title/caption editor says “Incomplete token {Rating” (note missing brace).
Template “Help” button goes to 404.
The “help” link was fixed right away, thanks. I’ve finally fixed the {Rating} issue in .7. —Jeffrey
Hey- thanks for continuing to offer an awesome flickr plugin for Lightroom, it really doesn’t get any better.
I just upgraded myself to Lightroom 2, and installed the latest plugin (20080729.1). I’m noticing an issue when I try to use an export preset (newly created with this version of the plugin), where it fails with an error that says, “This plug-in‚Äôs post-processing task did not finish successfully. Can’t log in to Flickr: missing credentials”
However, if I use the “Export…” dialog, and do it by hand, everything works fine.
Thanks again for your dedication to a great product.
Fixed in .3 —Jeffrey
Great plugin! Thanks for the effort.
A question: how can I set privacy level of uploads? I remember this was possible in version 1.
Thanks again.
I’d forgotten it. Added in version .2. —Jeffrey
Just noticed the missing privacy levels too - could you add this to facebook and picasaweb as well if it’s not in them
Thanks. These version 2 plugins are awesome frankly
Added in .2 —Jeffrey
Thanks for this — really like the new feature of deciding on photoset at export time. Unfortunately, choosing this option (select at export time) results in a dialog with the content ‘At line 13616′ and then another dialog with the content ‘Unable to export: An internal error has occurred: bad argument #3 (boolean expected, got string)”.
Otherwise seems to work well.
Both fixed in .4 —Jeffrey
Thanks for the great plugin! Besides the minor bugs mentioned aboved, everyting works like a charm.
One feature I really miss, however, is exporting lens model metadata to Flickr tag. ( similar to FlickrExport plugin for Aperture ).
Is this possible ‘coz I can’t seem to find a way to do it?
Thanks again!
It’s there… look at the captioning templates in the dialog. —Jeffrey
Great plugin! Thanks again for making these available. Such a huge help.
I’m wondering about the “export to folder” option in the Flickr export plugin. Is that new? I don’t remember it from the last one. What purpose does it serve?
That’s part of the standard Lightroom 2 export dialog. I always leave it set to “temporary folder”, but some people like to keep copies of the files they upload, so this allows them to do that. The only difference is that with “temporary folder”, Lightroom picks the location (a temporary one), and deletes the images at the end of the export. —Jeffrey
It’s really nice of you to quickly release the new plugin for the latest Lightroom. I really appreciate for what you have done for the flickr users! One minor question i’d like to ask is that in previous version we can customize the privacy setting. That is, we can set who is allowed to see the uploaded picture.
It’s a very nice and decent feature so that we don’t have to readjust the setting one by one in the flickr after uploading them. Have you had any plan of integrating this into the next version. (Or do I miss something in your setting panel?)
Thank you so much!
Geez, 10 comments saying the same thing. Added in .2 —Jeffrey
How do I edit the “Uploaded to Flickr” metadata?
I need to do this for all my files that were uploaded with the older plugin.
This was covered in the announcement post, in the section on migration.
Also I would love to see another metadata field to check images that I want to upload but have not been uploaded yet? I am trying to figure out how to do this with the sdk but I am having to learn lua from scratch.
You can easily do this with keywords, or just create a “to be uploaded” collection. I suppose I could add a custom metadata field that would allow you to mark an image for upload, but that seems a tad overkill…. —Jeffrey
Nice plugin!!!
Hi, I installed the flickr export plugin, but can’t get it to work at all. The error generated is:
This plug-in’s post-processing task did not finish successfully.
?:13814: assertion failed!
I did follow the installation instructions and I tried installing on a second pc the lightroom trial available on adobe’s site. Nothing changed though and that’s what I expected to happen, since this is the same version of the application (2.0 481478). Is this a beta and is this why I get the error?
I have a problem with the LR/Mogrify piglet. I have donated and have version 3.90 (unrestricted Version) however when i try to upload to Flickr it only allows me 10 pictures. Is there a fix for this or have i got the wrong piglet installed?
Thanks in advance.
You should talk to the LR/Mogrify author about LR/Mogrify, but FYI, “piglets” are not supported by this new version of my Flickr plugin. —Jeffrey
Hi, great plugin!!
I used the Lightroom 1 version six month ago and I’m very pleased with it. However in this version I’ve a problem with it. When I export a photo it doesn’t send all the keywords to flickr. It’s this a bug or something so?
Thanks and regards !!!
This is a Lightroom bug, now covered on the known issues page (which was added after you left your comment). —Jeffrey
Hi Jeffrey
Thanks for this plugin ! I tried to install it on my LR 2.0 beta but it says :
These new plugins do not work the the 2.0 beta, only the real 2.0. —Jeffrey
Plugin error log for plugin at: G:\Photos\Outils\Lightroom\Plugins\flickr-jfriedl.lrplugin
**** Error 1
An error occurred while attempting to load this plugin.
The plugin’s description resource (“Info.lua”) did not finish properly. (“?:3: attempt to index field ‘?’ (a nil value)”)
(Of course, I re-downloaded the zip file, etc)
Could you help me ?
Thanks very much for including upload privacy options! That was really quick (and now I’m gonna go and upload 80 pictures of cousins — see what you did?
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thank you for a fantastic tool….my most used tool for my photos. and I love following your photography and your son….thank you for letting us into your life.
Now, about a problem about accented characters (probably similar to the comment on your site reported by Peter Davis on 18th July).
It occurs with the plugin for v1.x and the newer for v2.x
I’m french, so I have keywords & locations data with accented characters (éèà…)
What I get into flickr page after the export:
- For metadatas entered in the Keyword area of lightroom, if I set one with accents (eg “écran”) on flickr I get both tags “écran” and “cran” (the good tag plus a version where the accented character(s) have been removed)
- For medatata in the Exif part (location/city/country) I get only the version where accented chars have been removed (for instance if I set “Grèce” in lightrrom, I get only “Grce” on flickr side).
Very best regards and congratulations for this great plugin
Uploading isn’t working for me (LR 2.0, Mac 10.5.4). I’m select 12 images, doing a Flickr Export, and then getting two dialogs:
At line 13631Unable to Export: An internal error has occurred: bad argument #3 (boolean expected, got string)Bummer.
Fixed in .4 —Jeffrey
Love the plugin, makes it very easy to upload! Thank you!
Is there a way to take the camera/lens data and propagate them to the caption easily through the plugin?
Yes —Jeffrey
Thanks a lot for this great piece of software!!!
Great plugin… it’s working well for me. I have just started exploring geotagging, and it appears the plugin is not exporting/uploading the GPS data which is shown in Lightroom. Is this by design, or a bug, or am I just doing it wrong?
I’m using MS Pro Photo tools to add GPS data, which is shown in Lightroom. When I export with the plugin, the location data doesn’t seem to appear on Flickr.
If it shows up in Lightroom, it’ll show up on Flickr unless you have stripped them. Make sure that the Minimize Embedded Metadata option in the Metadata section of the export dialog is not checked. —Jeffrey
Plugin will stop after first file
An internal error has occurred: ?:17404: attempt to concatenate field ‘?’ (a nil value)
the version is saying that the plug in will stop working after aug 30 2008
I have the version 20080731.2
The plugins expire to encourage (force) people to upgrade from older versions. I know that there will be a lot of bugs fixed early on, so I don’t want old buggy versions hanging around out there. This was mentioned on the announcement post —Jeffrey
Just moved to LR2 and upgraded to your 20080731.2 version of the plugin. I am getting an error I don’t see listed above:
Unable to Export:
An internal error has occurred: ?:13829: assertion failed!
I can still get the 20080714.47 version to run in LR2, so will continue with that for now.
Thanks for this great tool!
Fixed in version .15 —Jeffrey
I might be missing something, but I think I found a discrepancy that turns out to be a huge inconvenience for me between the plugins for 1.0 and 2.0. We have multiple flickr accounts, one for me, and one for my wife. Before I could export to either account and it wouldn’t matter which I was logged into with my browser (Lightroom lives on my computer, so I’m usually logged in with my flickr account). With the new plugin for 2.0 your plugin only remembers one flickr login at a time. Is there a way that you can make it work like the previous version did? It’s a hassle to go to flickr, log out, log back in, then go into Lightroom and export.
I’m not exactly sure what you’re referring to… the plugin doesn’t care what you’re logged in to in your browser. However, there was a bug that might have been related, and that’s fixed as of version .4. The currently-logged-in-user is now encapsulated into an Export Preset, as it was with the older plugin, so you can create “His” and “Hers” presets that you can select from within the Export Dialog to change the destination user. —Jeffrey
I’m finding that the current version in Lightroom 2.0 is not applying tags to the uploaded images. None of the options in the Metadata section of the plugin are checked… although I’ve just spotted that in the extra tags section the radio button for space separated is selected (although there are no extra tags set there, so I presume it should be ignored…. I’ll try switching to comma-separated and see what happens)
Otherwise, it’s as great as it always has been!
There’s a Lightroom bug related to keyword export, now mentioned on the known issues page, along with a fix. —Jeffrey
I like the plugin very much and have learned to use it properly. Sometimes the upload is finalized by the statement
Ein interner Fehler ist aufgetreten: ?:17389: attempt to index a nil value
(translates as “an internal error has occurred: …”
The picture is being uploaded, but LR says “Uploaded to Flickr: No”
Any idea why this happens? I use the latest version of the plugin.
Thanks! Thomas
I can confirm the issue that others have been reporting with exported photos to flickr not getting tagged with the keywords applied in lightroom.
There is a Lightroom-wide bug related to keywords that may be the culprit here. I am still crushed with so much work that I can’t investigate this on my side yet, but perhaps that link will give someone here a clue.
I also noticed that the functionality to ‘replace’ an already-uploaded photo no longer appears to work for me either.
Was the previous image uploaded with the previous plugin? If so, you need to migrate your LR1-plugin data to the new LR2-plugin data. —Jeffrey
Thanks Jeffrey, it looks like it must be that Lightroom 2 bug you pointed to… I set the “export keywords as Lightroom hierarchy” option in the export dialog and now the tags are getting through with the Flickr upload. Adobe are working on a proper fix, it seems.
Hi Jef,
Most of the problems are solved with the latest version flickr-20080805.6.zip
I found out that there will be almost every time an error when you create a new set.
and doing uploads directly.
Is it possible to display more set names at the same time.
I have lot of set’s it’s difficult to scroll trough the sets
Thanks
Hi Jef,
I’m having problems installing the flickr plugin. This is the dialog:
At line 13871:Assertion failed(!)
I’m working on Windows XP 64bits.
Thanks!!!!
Fixed in version .15 —Jeffrey
Hi Jef,
I was wondering if it’s possible to only update the keywords from Lightroom to Flickr.
Hmmm, it should be possible. Added to the to-do list. —Jeffrey
At the time of the upload Lightroom crashed..i had to kill Lightroom and restart the upload.
With the upload to flicker filter it was easy to select the not uploaded photo’s
After the total upload:
One photo was double uploaded and the photo was not in a set.
I have seen this problem in many upload application’s.
Is it possible to build in some kind of verification in the the future releases?
Hopefully, crashes (and hence, this issue) are few and far between. The problem is that the crash apparently happened between a successful upload and the notation of it being successfully written to the database. There are perhaps ways to guard against this, but it doesn’t seem worthwhile to spend the energy on that kind of edge case… —Jeffrey
Jeff,
Cannot tell from the comments so far if the “Upload Management” “All/Update/New” function is working or not, mine is not. I can export a few then go back and export them again and all I have for counts with the “Update” or “New” is “(?)”. Seems I am keeping no history of uploaded files. Current Lightroom 2.0 and Current Plugin.
I will second the suggestion that Enver put in about the tags, that would be really great.
Wonderful application you have here, many thanks!!
John
I would also love the ability to update only the tags since I don’t want the “expense” of waiting for my photos to upload a 2nd time.
Jeff,
I have been a fan of this plug-in for a while, and first of all want to thank you for your work.
I recently upgraded to Vista 64, and have installed LR 2.0 64bit. I installed ver 6.7 of the plug-in, and when I try to export to FLICKR I get the following error: At Line 13871: Assertion Failed(!). I tried going down one version (5.x) and had the same error. This was using the default settings.
NOTE: I as able to get this to work by configuring the following settings:
- Sharpening: OFF (Note: I turned this back on and can still upload)
- Upload to your flickr photoset: …Don’t add to photoset… (Note: this was blank, so I just chose something)
I don’t have any photosets on Flickr, and wonder if its related to this setting.
This is now fixed in version .15. The problem was that the default destination wasn’t being set properly when the user had no sets. —Jeffrey
Jeffrey,
I have another request about tags,
Is it possible to have the option of sending folder names as tag/set to Flickr?
ps. the latest version is working stable.
Hi Jeffrey and thanks for that plugin!
I would just suggest you a feature, I would be very happy to use : to use the lightroom collection system to automaticaly create albums on flickr.
I would be very happy to use special keywords to automaticaly set access rights on flickr.
Thanks again for your work, it was just suggestions I think about using your plugin.
Best regards,
And Again! Thanks Dude!!!
I got the followning error while exporting to Flickr using the latest plugin as of today:
This plug-in’s post-processing task did not finish successfully.
?:15996: bad argument #1 to ‘?’ (table expected, got nil)
Hmmm, I’d be interested to hear (via email) the kind of export you were doing. I’m not really sure how it would have happened, but I just pushed .8 that should fix it. —Jeffrey
Any ideas?
Is it possible that the plugin takes the keywords of each picture which I have entered in Lightroom 2.0 instead of the keywords which I have to enter using the plugin when I want to export pictures to Flickr?
It would be useful especially if I want to upload many pictures.
Thanks for a excellent plugin.
Would it be possible to get more Exif data available to use in the Title preset template. I’m missing Exposure, ISO Speed Rating, Model, Lens.
Very nice plugin !!!
I want to convert EXIF Camera and Lens to Flickr tag, but I didn’t get it
Same think with contact information.
Any idea ?
Jef,
I got the same error this was when i was in the plugin setting for the second upload..(parallel upload)
I did some single uploads without any problem
An internal error has occurred: ?:17689: attempt to concatenate field ‘?’ (a nil value)
Jeffrey,
Just started using the plugin. A small request — would it be possible to move the “add to new photoset” functionality and its related ilk to the top of the menu, rather than at the bottom? I have lots of photosets, and whenever I export to a new one I have to scroll all the way down to access the functionality I want.
Thanks
Jeffrey-
First off, hi from an old co-worker at Yahoo! I really love what you’ve been doing with the plugin. It has dramatically sped up my Lightroom to Flickr processing time. Thank you for all the work that you have put into this.
Second, I know a number of people have mentioned issues with keyword uploading problems and I just wanted to mention mine. When I add new keywords to an existing photo and re-upload the photo to Flickr, those new keywords don’t seem to appear as tags upon upload.
This isn’t a Lightroom 1 to 2 issue as I was updating a photo that I had just uploaded this morning. I tested with another image and I had the same problem. I’m using the latest version of your plugin, so I’ve ruled that out as well. This issue is somewhat minor, but it does appear to be a bug.
Thanks again for your hard work on such a handy plugin.
BTW, I second the motion for just updating keywords rather than the entire image. This would be super useful.
Cheers,
Randy Stewart
Hy Jeffrey,
this is excellent work! Especially the integration of flickr into the workflow process and saving the flickr-number in the database is more than I ever imagined.
If I may add a wish however, it would be that you give us the chance to save the flickr-image-numbers to the pictures already uploaded before the plugin was available. Not sure if I was clear enough with this statement. What I meant is, that I can enter the flickr-address of the picture into the metadata-section (what the plugin does automatically for each picture on upload) by hand. I have about 2500 photos on flickr, where the link in lightroom is missing (because I uploaded them before your plugin was available).
This functionality would make the best plugin even better.
So thanks once more for a wonderful tool and please keep on the great work.
Best regards
Reini
a big improvement for me will be a more easy selection for “add to a new Photoset”.
I make 1 photoset for 1 photo serie. so I have many photoset and it’s boring to go each time to the bottom of the long list to select “add to a new photoset”.
I hope you understand what I mean
thanks for your help ! this LR 2.0 plugin is great and far better than the LR 1.3 version ! great !
david
Love the plugin. But with 2.0 I’ve intermittently received an error message “no response from flickr” which stops uploads from completing (and for my large uploads creates a pain as I have to figure out where I left off). any idea what causes this?
Love this plug-in and just started incorporating it into my upload to Flickr workflow. Ran into a bit of a snag with the Title/Description Presets … I tried to adjust the window that the dialog pops-up in while performing an Edit/Add. In doing so, LR completely froze up. After closing down and reloading, LR now continually locks up every time I even click on either Edit/Add button for these presets. Tried removing the plug-in files and reloading them, and even tried a fresh install of LR … the same problem still continues. Where is the data for these presets being written to? Maybe it will fix the problem if I can specifically eradicate those files, but I cannot find them. Using Windows XP with Service Pack 2. Thank you in advance for your assistance.
They’re saved in your preferences. If you don’t mind, could you zip up a copy of your preferences file and mail it to me? (It’s a text file, so you can scan the copy prior to zipping, to ensure that there’s no sensitive data that you’d rather not share). If I can replicate the problem, I’ll then pass it along to Adobe. —Jeffrey
Hello Jeffrey
I started using your plungin in Lr 1.x on Windows XP, but now I have migrated to Lr 2.0 and Widdows Vista 32. I updated the plugin but now I can not use it. When I try to authentication with Flickr, I get:
INTERNAL PLUGIN ERROR
Flickr login aborted
and later
An internal error has occurred
17430:attempt to index a nil value
Is something wrong on my side or is it a bug?
Thanks for your great job!!!
Antonio
Madrid-Spain
jeff-
When i authentication flickr i get
INTERNAL PLUGIN ERROR
Flickr login aborted
then
An internal error has occurred 17430:attempt to index a nil value
How do i fix that
im runnig wins xp
and
flickr-20080827.12
Thank you so much for writing and maintaining this. That’s it! I love it, no problems to speak of.
The latest release solves my problem, yes, thanks!
Now all I want is the ability to re-order the photos so that I can control the order they appear (If I’m uploading five, I want the best photo uploaded last, so that it appears first in my photostream).
You can order the images as you like, in the Library’s Grid Mode, then upload. —Jeffrey
Hi Jeff,
I want to make public my CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Yes, the Flickr Plugin worked PERFECTLY, I just tried it!!
WOW!!!!!!!!!!
No more assert problems, it’s a great gift for all of us who enjoy photography.
Thank you very much, you are a Genius.
Cheers.
Have the same problem as Ryan, above - authenticating causes a plugin error. I had to export manually and upload to Flickr - can you image the pain and suffering? Woe, woe is me…
OSX 10.5, Lightroom 2, 20080828.15.
I downloaded 829.18 tonight, and find my previous problem is gone. Uploaded to Flickr smoothly without a hitch. I’ll explore the options now that I can actually start using it.
Ed
The auto-update functionality [download & install] does not create the destination folder with the correct name.
Yep download and install, which seemed to work perfectly for me for one verison (for flickr, picasaweb and facebook) now doesn’t work. 0829.18 say’s it has been installed and needs reloading but still reports 0330.19 is available for dl and installation.
XP LR 2
ok - so I did a manual overwrite of all the files - worked first time. LOVE THIS PLUGIN
Hi Jeffrey, thanks for your nice plug-in.
I had some problems installing the 20080831.19 upgrade. I finally did it manually. Apparently my plug-ins are in the Modules subfolder, I couldn’t find a Plug-ins subfolder. I’m not sure if this was the problem.
Secondly, I ‘m facing the same problem as Joe on August 3rd, 2008 . I have two Flickr accounts. I created two presets, but once I autheticate one of the two, the other preset is also updated. So I always end up with the same Flickr account in the two presets. You know of any work around?
Thanks!
Uploads are pretty reliable now, sorting in LR works well.
The upload seems a little slower than it would be if I did the steps manually, but … it’s more convenient, so that may not be a big deal. I should measure sometime to compare.
I get the following when trying to export to flickr
Whoa, “/var/folders/ug/ugfI-WNtEleQzXw57ztZok+++TI/-Tmp-/FDAFFA05-C748-4E7C-8D62-41E3D11C2879/082908_0272.jpg” does not exist immediately after waitForRender. Please let Jeffrey know.
Then
Couldn’t open 082908_0272.jpg: /var/folders/ug/ugfI-WNtEleQzXw57ztZok+++TI/-Tmp-/FDAFFA05-C748-4E7C-8D62-41E3D11C2879/082908_0272.jpg: No such file or directory
whether I used the temporary folder or assign one.
OS X 10.5.4, lightroom 2.0, plugin 20080831.19 and LR2/Morgrify. Works fine (with lr2/morgrify) if I export to disk instead of flickr.
The above error
Whoa, “/var/folders/ug/ugfI-WNtEleQzXw57ztZok+++TI/-Tmp-/FDAFFA05-C748-4E7C-8D62-41E3D11C2879/082908_0272.jpg” does not exist immediately after waitForRender. Please let Jeffrey know.
happens when I select more than one image to export to flickr. Selecting a single image works fine.
Hi Jeff,
Great job. Your pluggin works fine in LR 2.0. Thanks so much for all of your efforts!
Jan Armor
The newest release works fine in Lightroom 2, great work! The only thing I find irritating is, that the photo which is first on the library grid is the last on flickr display. I think this should be reversed so that that the upmost photo in Lightroom is the upmost photo on flickr.
You can order the images as you like, in the Library’s Grid Mode, then upload. —Jeffrey
Getting this same error: I get the following when trying to export to flickr
Whoa, “…..” does not exist immediately after waitForRender. Please let Jeffrey know.
Then
Couldn’t open 082908_0272.jpg: /var/folders/ug/ugfI-WNtEleQzXw57ztZok+++TI/-Tmp-/FDAFFA05-C748-4E7C-8D62-41E3D11C2879/082908_0272.jpg: No such file or directory
whether I used the temporary folder or assign one.
OS X 10.5.4, lightroom 2.0, plugin 20080831.19 and LR2/Morgrify. Works fine (with lr2/morgrify) if I export to disk instead of flickr.
Except I’m using Windows XP.
It appears to be a Lightroom bug; I’ve added it to the known issues page. —Jeffrey
For me the update on flickr/picasa/facebook is broken again - was fixed but seems stuck on 19 even though 21 appears to be available.
19 was a version with the bug, so the bug remains until you upgrade. Pressing on the “check for update” button might clear it, but if not, you’ll just have to upgrade manually this time. Sorry. —Jeffrey
It would be extremely useful to be able to specify an arbitrary upload date different from the current date. This feature would allow you, for example, to upload old pictures and not have them appear as recent photos in the photostream, burying current photos behind many screens of old photos. The flickr web interface does not provide any way to batch shift the upload date for many photos at once, so this feature would provide a critical workaround.
You said a couple of times above that exporting lens model/id/aperture metadata is simple and can be done with the caption presets. I don’t see any tokens on your template help page that would do this. How do you get this plugin to add that information via the caption/title presets? Thanks.
Added a bunch of new tokens (including lens/exposure/aperture info) as of version .22 —Jeffrey
Another user with “does not exist immediately after waitForRender. Please let Jeffrey know.”
Happens when exporting to Flickr more than one image *in combination with LR2Mogrify*. I exported to local folder and what I see is that LR2Mogrify is exporting files but not necessarily in the same order as expected by “Export to Flickr.”
“Export to Flickr” is complaining about the first file in the list not being there, for instance, and indeed it’s not there but LR2Mogrify is busily working on files, except in what seems to be the reverse order.
Anyway, hope this helps,
Paul
It appears to be a Lightroom bug; I’ve added it to the known issues page. —Jeffrey
I am trying to configure this plugin for two accounts, but I cannot get it to recognize the second one. I logout, then do the “authenticate to flickr” thing, and login to flickr with the other account name, but the plugin is only remembering the first account. How do I purge the info?
The automatic install is not working for me. […]
This has happened over the past several of your releases, and since others are not complaining I assume I am doing something wrong.
Can you help? Thanks much for a great plugin!!
Finally fixed, I think in .26 (which you’ll have to install by hand, but then should be good to go for subsequent updates). —Jeffrey
First, thanks for doing this great job for us Lightroom and flickr users. It’s an really great help in my workflow!
I’m using 20080914.24 - and I’ve to report a strange behavior in your flickr export plugin. During export, an EXIF-value is changed:
“Scale Factor35efl” should be 1.6 but is changed to 3.1 resulting in a to high value for focal lenght.
This doesn’t show up in flickr, but I’m using this exported JPEG on ipernity.com and they trust on this value. I tried the general export of Lightroom and this produces the right value. If you need any more information or sample files please contact me!
I just attempted to upload using the NEW - Upload those pics not yet exported option.
It would seem this exports any pictures which have had the exported to flickr metadata set manually (ie for the pictures I already had on flick prior to obtaining your plugin)
It appears the plugin is possibly checking the flickr location metadata which is not set by the manual procces rather than the flickr uploaded metadata.
While on the subject, is it possible somehow to manually add the flickr location data for images uploded prior to installing the plugin to allow them to be updated via the plugin after the files are edited? Without this data in place I have to fall back to flickr uploader for older files that I modify
When using the uploader for a while now and with different version I have been getting:
Unable to Export
An internal error has occured: ?:19949: attempt concatenate a field ‘?’ (a nil value)
Image still uploads fine but post processing does not occur (as in setting the Flickr flag to yes in Lightroom).
I have the flickr-log.txt if that helps you.
I will be great if the plugin can cache the flickr data. And not having to download the flickr information each time the plugin is used.
May be it can be solved storing the data locally in a file and including a refresh/synchronize button.
PS: I also have the error commented by Michael [ http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/flickr/#comment-20475 ]
This is a really useful plugin, but I am having a couple of frustrating problems:
I’m having real problems with the ‘Location’ meta data item. The Country, State, and City meta data items are turning up as tags in Flickr as expected. But not the Location item. I’ve tried added the {Location} template token to the Extra tags field. But this is just taking the location tag for one photos and then applying it to every photos. So it works OK if I am just uploading 1 photos, but uploading photos one-by-one is going to take even longer than manually adding a tag for the location of each photo after the upload!
Another small problem I am having is with the description. I really don’t want the photos caption to be uploaded to Flickr as the description as some of my older photos have automatically generated Photoshop captions which don’t mean very much. I’ve selected ‘None’ as the preset description in the ‘Flickr Upload Management’ section , but I’m still getting that dratted Photoshop auto caption being uploaded in to the Flickr photo description.
If anyone can offer any help at all with these two problem, I’d be very grateful
I just might be able to help. The first is a silly mistake on my part, and the second seems to be a bug in the Flickr API. I’ve just pushed a version that fixes the first and gets around the second. —Jeffrey
Hi!
Just working with your great plugin…
One question. Once i upload a photo to flickr, if i want to add/change a tag from lightroom and reupload (replace) the photo, i cannot
For example i change the copyright info the place the country and i add 2 more keywords from lightroom. When i upload i see ALL the changes except the tags on flickr…
For sure i am doing something wrong, but what?
Elias
Hello, I’ve just tried to install 20080921.30 and lightroom 2 on my xp sp3 box gives me an “error processing schema” and disables the plugin. I’ve tried this with the plugin folder in the lightroom home directory and several other places. I’ve also re-downloaded the zip and unzipped using a different program to make sure nothing was corrupt.
Help please.
Hi Jeffrey, first of all, thank you for your great job with the flickr export plugIn, your work is really appreciated.
However, today I stumbled upon a small bug. I tried to update some of my photos on flickr that got a caption and more keywords in lightroom, that I forgot to add in the first place.
The plugIn worked fine, but neither the captions, nor the titles or keywords have been updated.
I use Windows Vista Ultimate 64, Lightroom2 64bit and your latest plugIn. I also installed the Adobe script for the keyword 1.x->2.0 bug and executed it, though the photos I updated where only added after upgrading to 2.0.
Any idea on that?
Thanks in advance!
That’s actually how Flickr has designed the “replace” feature. I pushed .33 to include a note to the effect that metadata is not replaced. In the future, I’ll add an option to update the metadata as well. —Jeffrey
When I try “Authenticate to Flickr” I recive
“Oops! Flickr can’t find a valid callback URL.”
(flickr-20080923.32.zip)
Hi Jeffrey. First off, this is a great plugin for Lightroom. This makes my publish to flickr workflow so much simpler. While I was using your plugin I had an idea how perhaps a (small?) change might be able to help myself and others get around a limitation with Flickr. You see, I’ve had a request in to Flickr for over a year now to support a user definable maximum viewing size.
You can read the request here.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/flickrideas/discuss/72157600727889685/
As it stands now you can choose to share your full resolution image with everyone, or limit viewing to the medium 500×500 one. I’d rather be able to choose and say, let “large” 1024×1024 be the limit non friends and family can download, and for people I trust let them view the full monty.
Unfortunately, I have no faith this will be implemented anytime soon by Flickr, and the only work around that has been suggested (and people are actually doing this!) is to upload twice, one image for public consumption at the resolution you are comfortable with, and then the same image at full resolution as a “private” or “family” only pic, whatever you choose.
So my RFE and question for you is, could you add this to your lightroom flickr export to have an option at the time of export to upload both a scaled down version and the original? Also adding perhaps an optional tag addition for the full res, and it’s own privacy setting?
Thanks again for the plugin, cheers!
Nordin
Hi Jeffrey. Thanks for the nice plugin, I enjoy using it very much.
I just wanted to ask when can we expect to have the metadata update fuction you mentioned in 20080923.32 update report?
Thanks in advance and keep up the excellent job!
Each time you offer an update for LR2, the Plugin Manager installs an older version??? I saw that you had a 9/25 version, told the Plugin Manager to upgrade and it pulled in the version from 9/14. That’s happened the last couple times for me. Is there anything you can do for it?
I have to come to your website, download the update, extract it and manually move the folder to the right folder in Lightroom. I thought the Plugin Manager was supposed to make things easier???
Thanks for a great tool though!
Feature request to save File Setting, File Naming, Image Sizing alues between exports, at the moment they default to the last export settings used. For example, if you have just done a file export for 10×8 at 402 dpi then when you use your Flickr plugin it uses the setting from this export not those you last used with Flickr. Hope this makes sense.
Thanks for the great plugin.
Hi, Jeffrey, I’ve used an older version of your plugin for a while — it’s awesome, thank you. This the latest version, I can’t find tokens for using the capture time of day in the title. I would expect there to exist {HH}{MM} tokens in addition to {SS}. I’m totally confused by this, I can’t believe seconds are included, but not hours & minutes!
I’m at a loss to explain it myself. I think chipmunks broke into my computer and stole them. The hour/minute items (as {HH} and {MIN}) have been, er, “restored” as of .30. Thanks for the report. —Jeffrey
No bugs to report, no feature requests…just wanted to say thanks! I use flickr a lot, and was using “1001″ as my uploader. But the export from LR/upload to flickr routine was less than ideal. Now you’ve made it all seamless. Thanks so much!!!!
-Matt
P.S. Perhaps I’ll have some bugs/feature requests later…
tag-based pool please!
Awesome plugin! Thanks so much!
Feature request: make the “At Flickr” plug-in field searchable. This way, we can just stick the flickr ID to get back to the photo.
Keep up the good work. =)
Hi Jeffrey,
Thanks to add the refresh tags function !!
In 20080929.36 with LR 2.1 RC1, I see a issue, if I resend more than one photo. All metatadata for exif (
{FocalLengthMM}, {Aperture}, {CameraModel}, {ShutterSpeed}, iso{ISO},…) get the info form the first images.
Other issue, form long time ago I have a bug : If I create a Smart Collection with “uploaded to Flickr” is “yes” for filter all photos send to Flickr, LR is freezing. I can load LR again. Only way is to remove all your plugin. Load LR and delete the Smart Collection.
Fixed the first problem in .37, thanks for the report. I can’t repeat the smart-collection bug you report, so I’m not sure what to suggest…. —Jeffrey