Posted this on the RSS & Aggregation group, cross posting here to see if some of you can help.
Basically, I'm trying to streamline a process, so I can tag and comment of my photos in Picasa, upload to Flickr, have them pulled back down onto my Drupal blog, then I pick some and group them together into a blog entry.
This is how far I've gotten:
- Installed emfield, FeedAPI, FeedAPI mapper, imageapi, imagecache
- set up feed content type and photoblog content type
- Put my flickr RSS in feed, map photo to emb image field, description to a CCK text field.
OK, so now each of my latest photo uploaded to flickr becomes a new photoblog node in Drupal. Great!
What I want to do next is to also get the EXIF data from my photos, map them to new CCK fields and display them by the photos. This is the part that requires some tweaking with Flickr's API. I saw that Flickr had given us API responses in Feeds so that should make things real easy for us using FeedAPI and mapper. But I am still trying to figure out how.
Also, let's say I have each photo and its descriptions / exif data as individual nodes. I'll probably set them as unpublished or only give admin permission to view this content type. Then, I need a way to organize them into one blog entry page. Any suggestions how to do this easily?
(I'm building this on a "features server", may be I can export what I have so far into a feature and attach it on here later. Just wanna get this question out first.)
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Wow that sounds like a lot of
Wow that sounds like a lot of work. You could use the EXIF module to get that data:
http://drupal.org/project/exif
If you want the exif data in CCK fields (not quite sure about what the benefit of that is), you'd probably need to do that yourself.
But why are you recreating Flickr in your blog? Wouldn't it be easier to just store your images in Flickr and then reference the highlights for your photoblog via imagefield?
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or if you want to do Views of
or if you want to do Views of your Flickr photos you can do that too:
http://developmentseed.org/blog/2009/feb/05/extendr-flickr-and-views
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Thanks
That is really cool, I've always wanted to do something like that, but didn't really know the best way to do it.
Thanks Dave.
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Ooooh yeah... thanks for the
Ooooh yeah... thanks for the Extendr link! Would be interesting to see if I can directly ... err... wait... this will give me a queried list of Flickr photos w/ meta data I need... but the next step is to pick from that list and create a node (a blog post) out of a few photos.
The EXIF module wouldn't work, as I'm not importing my photos into Drupal, I'm just pulling a feed and putting the link of the photo into an embedded image field, and its description & tags into separate fields... etc.
I guess I'm stuck at using multiple Flickr APIs and mashing the results into one feed (for the ease of using FeedAPI and mapper to pick out the fields I want.)
Karim had reminded me about views_attach with node_reference, so with that I should be able to pick out which photoblog nodes I want to put in a post to be published.