Introduction
Flickr Schedulr is a Windows desktop application that automatically uploads pictures to
Flickr based on a schedule (e.g. to post a new picture every day at a certain time). It allows you to create a queue of pictures to be uploaded, along with their titles, descriptions, tags, and the photoset into which they should end up.
This effectively takes the hassle of uploading pictures at regular intervals away, and allows you to go out and have fun shooting pictures (or drinking beer) while your photoblog is maintained for you.
Features
- Easily maintain a queue of pictures to be uploaded to Flickr.
- Edit the title, description, tags and visibility settings for each picture, and optionally the photosets and groups to which the picture must be added.
- Get a visual overview of the queue through the inline picture previews.
- Drag and drop pictures onto the queue from Windows Explorer.
- When present in the file, automatically retrieves the title, description and tags from the picture when it is added to the queue.
- Warns you if there are pictures in your queue that are larger than the maximum file size you are allowed to upload.
- Can be run from the command line with the "/upload" switch to upload the next picture in the queue.
- Keeps a history of all pictures that have been uploaded.
- Shows you all your important account information, e.g. your remaining upload quota.
- Import and export the configuration (containing queued and uploaded pictures).
- All settings are automatically saved when you close the application.
If you can think of other great features, please let us know through the discussion forums or the issue tracker!
Screenshots
A picture says more than a thousand words, so see the
Screenshots page to get a feel for how it all looks...
Getting Started
The first time you run the application, you will be asked to authenticate with Flickr and authorize this application to access your account (this is needed to upload pictures). You can then simply add the pictures to be sent to Flickr in the "Queued Pictures" list. You can either use the Add button or drag and drop files onto the grid.
The title, description and tags are automatically filled in if the picture file contained this information, otherwise enter the necessary details for each picture yourself. You can also specify the photosets and groups to which the picture should be added in Flickr. You can change the defaults in the Options screen, e.g. to always use the same photoset for all files that are added.
Then use Windows Tasks Scheduler (see instructions on the
Scheduling help page) to run Flickr Schedulr at your desired schedule with the "/upload" command line argument. Every time the task is run, the next batch of pictures in the queue will be uploaded and moved to the "Uploaded Pictures" list.
Installation
Before this application can be used, the free Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0 must be installed. Chances are that you already have it (it comes with Windows Vista and Windows 7 and you might be using other applications that installed it already) but if not, it is available for free at
Microsoft's download page for the .NET Framework. The application can be installed by executing the installer or by just copying it to a destination directory of your choice. Uninstalling can be done through the Windows control panel or (if you simply copied it) is just a matter of deleting the files again.
What's New?
- v1.4 (January 4, 2010)
- You can now resize the Sets and Groups lists to make more room for lists with long names.
- Fixed a bug that occurred when an already uploaded picture was deleted: "System.ArgumentException An argument is invalid"
- v1.3.1 (October 16, 2009)
- Fixed a bug that could occur on startup: "The assembly does not have the AssemblyMilestoneAttribute defined: System.Windows.Forms, ..."
- v1.3 (October 11, 2009)
- You can now upload more than one picture at a time in batch, by indicating that a picture should be uploaded together with the next picture in the queue. When uploading, all pictures are uploaded in one batch until one is encountered that doesn't have this setting anymore.
- When you have selected multiple pictures, any changes are made to all the selected pictures in stead of just the "active" one.
- The usability of the editing area has been improved: sets and groups are now defined separately and the different parts of the window can be resized with splitter bars.
- Previously uploaded pictures can be added to the queue again.
- v1.2 (December 4, 2007)
- You can now choose Groups and multiple Photosets to associate your pictures with.
- I'm also releasing the source code from now on (built on .NET 2.0 with Visual Studio 2008).
- I've set up a dedicated Schedulr Group on Flickr, a community site where you can ask questions, give comments, complain about bugs (what, bugs?!) and post pictures - uploaded with Schedulr of course!
- v1.1 (November 12, 2007)
- You can now move pictures directly to the top or bottom of the upload queue.
- You can now shuffle the upload queue to make a randomized list of pictures to upload.
- You can now upload all selected pictures in the upload queue with the "Upload Now" button.
- You can now get inline previews of the pictures inside the Queued Pictures list.
- You can now import and export the current configuration (containing queued and uploaded pictures).
- You can now see how many items are in the queue and which one you are editing.
- You can now easily navigate up and down in the queue from anywhere with the ALT-UP and ALT-DOWN keys.
- v1.0 (October 19, 2007)