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Brad Fitzpatrick 2c05f1a3d9 importer: refresh importer root page, add Titles, Descriptions, TODO bugs And also speed up /importer/TYPE page's query by saying it's unsorted, which gets us a better index. Hacky workaround. Should fix it in the query planner later instead. Fixes #1105 Change-Id: I140ffb40456ec802844584568d2f1a7a38b26e41		2018-04-27 17:06:59 -07:00
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testdata	Rename camlistored to perkeepd.	2018-04-21 11:06:09 -07:00
README	all: more renaming of Camlistore to Perkeep	2018-01-30 03:02:56 -08:00
picasa.go	importer: refresh importer root page, add Titles, Descriptions, TODO bugs	2018-04-27 17:06:59 -07:00
picasa_test.go	all: fix search owner use for integration tests	2018-02-09 02:22:01 +01:00
testdata.go	importer: change some camlistore.org to perkeep.org; fix devcam --makethings	2018-04-25 13:23:18 -07:00

README

Picasa Importer
===============

This is a working Perkeep importer for Picasa. So far it can import
all photos but not their metadata.

To use:

1) Retrieve an api credential from a project of you from
   https://console.developers.google.com/
   Select/create a project, then under APIs & auth / Credentials, create a new
   web application client id.

2a) Start the devcam server with picasakey flag:
    $ devcam server -verbose -picasakey='Client ID:Client secret'

2b) Place the Client ID and the Client secret in your (low-level) server-config.json:

    "/importer-picasa/": {
        "handler": "importer-picasa",
        "handlerArgs": {
            "apiKey": "Client ID:Client secret"
        }
    },

    and start your camlistore server.

3) Navigate to http://<server>/importer-picasa/start and authorize the app
   to manage your Photos.

4) Watch import progress on the command line (start devcam with -verbose flag).


TODO
----

  * The used OAuth2 scope is for managing (read & modify) photos, but this
    needs only read rights. Is a stricter scope available?
  * The album's author name is not used yet, and the album's short name is needed.
  * Picasa Web dumps a lot of metadata on us. Which would be usable?

See https://perkeep.org/issue/391