picurl 0.0.1

picurl 0.0.1 will be the first release of picurl and contains many features of the "Desktop Basic" Milestone. Because some development steps required more manpower than expected, we had to optimize our feature set. We decided to postpone some features that are already covered by other open source tools (e.g. uploading to photosharing services) and concentrated on the unique features of picurl. The SQLite-based metadata storage will not be part of this release.

The release is planned for 2008-02-22.

Feature Set

Supported Platforms

  • Linux (Install from Source)
  • Windows (py2exe Installer)

Multiple Stores Support

  • Read/write support for pictures stored on..
    • Local disk folders
    • FTP servers
    • Flickr accounts
    • Picasa accounts
  • Read-only support for pictures stored on..
    • HTTP servers (directory listing)
    • HTML websites on HTTP pages (embedded images)
  • Copy-on-the-fly between the stores above (e.g. copy a picture stored on an ftp server directly to a flickr account)
  • Metadata export: when downloading, metadata from flickr/picasa (tags, captions) will be written to the corresponding IPTC fields of the image

Search across stores

  • Change metadata (EXIF/IPTC) for images on local stores, Flickr, or Picasa stores
  • Search for metadata/pictures across stores (e.g. all JPEGs containing the tag "party" on FTP and Flickr servers)
  • Sort across stores (e.g. sort all images from a Flickr album and a FTP folder after their EXIF DateTimeCreated value)
  • Export your searches to a RSS feed

Placeholder Thumbnails

Quickly download all thumbnail pictures from a store, and sort out the thumbnails you are interested in. picurl will then replace these thumbnails with their original images.

Post Header Checksum

When you edit the metadata of a picture (e.g. assigning keywords), the checksum of the file changes. Unlike other tools, picurl is smart enough to ignore metadata changes when calculating the checksum. picurl can reliably re-identify the changed picture, even if its metadata was changed in another application. Furthermore, the post header checksum requires only a partial download of image data. You can quickly look for potential image duplicates across stores.

Command Line Interface

here the command line interface is described

Dependencies

A list of Python packages that have to be installed can be found on the Dependencies page.