Moving to Picasa Update

Great work !
Is it possible to modify this script to resize the photos when bigger than 2048x2048 before uploading to Picasa because if you’ve signed up for Google+, photos up to 2048 x 2048 pixels and videos up to 15 minutes won’t count towards your free storage.
Thanks

Just updated the article with a new version that handles resizing. This is completely untested but *should* work. I don't have anything to test it out with any longer since I've already moved :)

Let me know if any more changes to the script are needed for it to work.

Also, PIL is required to be install in order for this part to work. If you don't have it installed, it should be rather easy to find the python package in any package manager.

Thanks a lot for your answer but I cannot download the migrateflickrtopicasanokeyresize.py file, log in is required :(

Sorry about that. Forgot to publish the file. Give it a try again.

Hi, I keep getting this error - I'd love to find a way to fix it! Let me know what I can provide to help out.

gdata.photos.service.GooglePhotosException: (403, 'Forbidden', 'Not authorized to modify this resource.')

Can you provide all the output? Not just that exception.

I am getting following errors (one example of many):

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/threadpool.py", line 156, in run
    result = request.callable(*request.args, **request.kwds)
  File "./migrate.py", line 255, in move_photo
    im.save(filename)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PIL/Image.py", line 1423, in save
    raise KeyError(ext) # unknown extension
KeyError: ''

I suspect that the above is related to the fact that some of my photos are in NEF format. I would prefer in this case to transfer JPEG.

Other frequent error (one example of many):

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/threadpool.py", line 156, in run
    result = request.callable(*request.args, **request.kwds)
  File "./migrate.py", line 265, in move_photo
    gd_client.InsertPhoto(picasa_album, picasa_photo, filename, content_type=headers.get('content-type', 'image/jpeg'))
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/gdata/photos/service.py", line 427, in InsertPhoto
    raise GooglePhotosException(e.args[0])
GooglePhotosException: (500, 'Internal Server Error', 'Error: 10 STORAGE_UNAVAIL')

I verified and I do have plenty of room to upload images. Most probably Google fails, and the script should either throttle uploads, or wait for Google to come back.

And the script finished like good old C program:

Segmentation fault

Majority of pictures were not transferred up to this point.

I ran script on Ubuntu 11.04 64bit with Python 2.7, and the latest packages from PyPi.

Hi Nathan, thanks for getting back to me. Turns out it was an issue with my Google Apps account (had a conflict). I've cleaned that up and the script is working much better now.

Should the image titles be set by the script? at the moment they are all being set to 'none'. Again let me know if the output would help debug.

Thanks for this! Extremely useful. I'm getting this error after queuing file 398/469 in a set:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "migrate-flickr-to-picasa-nokey.py", line 335, in <module>
    do_migration()
  File "migrate-flickr-to-picasa-nokey.py", line 312, in do_migration
    print 'Queuing photo %i/%i, %s of album %s for moving.' % (photo_id + 1, len
(all_photos), photo.get('title'), set_title)
  File "c:\python27\lib\encodings\cp437.py", line 12, in encode
    return codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_map)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\xad' in position 5
0: character maps to <undefined>

Is this a coincidence that it's on the 400th file? I could spend a day tracking this, but I figured you might know?

It's a unicode issue so you might want to look at the image name or album name.

Do you know if your script has issues with movies >200MB? I seem to keep getting "broken pipe" messages when trying to upload large videos. I get the same error when trying to use the googlecl python utilities. Any assistance would be great. And thanks again for your script!

Brian

Pretty sure when I used it I had videos large than that, but I'm unsure.

Awesome! One question... I used Flickr to add geotags, tags, etc. Is that data included in the migration to Picasa? THANKS!

I do not believe so.

For me your script hits the open files limit (which on linux defaults to 1024). I think the script is not closing the temporary files when they have finished uploading.

Hey man, interesting script. I had two issues however. Not all images have a url_o link. If the original image was too small I don't think they give it one of those links. To solve it I requested all the links and stepped down the image size until I found the biggest image, url_m usually worked.

I also found that any images not in a set wasn't downloaded and up loaded. I am investigating myself, seems need to use FLICKR.photos_getNotInSet, trying to get it put in myself but just thought I'd mention it here.

I haven't looked into it properly yet but what happens in the cases where an image exists in two different sets, does it get downloaded up uploaded twice?

On migrating i get an error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./migrate-flickr-to-picasa-nokey.py", line 342, in <module>
    do_migration()
  File "./migrate-flickr-to-picasa-nokey.py", line 302, in do_migration
    picasa_albums = get_picasa_albums(set_title, aset, len(all_photos))
  File "./migrate-flickr-to-picasa-nokey.py", line 186, in get_picasa_albums
    picasa_album = gd_client.InsertAlbum(title=id, summary=aset.find('description').text, access='protected')
  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.7-intel/egg/gdata/photos/service.py", line 356, in InsertAlbum
  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.7-intel/egg/gdata/service.py", line 1236, in Post
  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.7-intel/egg/gdata/service.py", line 1322, in PostOrPut
  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.7-intel/egg/atom/__init__.py", line 93, in optional_warn_function
    
  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.7-intel/egg/atom/service.py", line 186, in request
  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.7-intel/egg/gdata/auth.py", line 725, in perform_request
  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.7-intel/egg/atom/http.py", line 163, in request
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 937, in endheaders
    self._send_output(message_body)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 797, in _send_output
    self.send(msg)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 759, in send
    self.connect()
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1140, in connect
    self.timeout, self.source_address)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 553, in create_connection
    for res in getaddrinfo(host, port, 0, SOCK_STREAM):
socket.gaierror: [Errno 8] nodename nor servname provided, or not known
Exception in thread Thread-1 (most likely raised during interpreter shutdown):
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 530, in __bootstrap_inner
  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.7-intel/egg/threadpool.py", line 160, in run
<type 'exceptions.AttributeError'>: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'exc_info'
Exception in thread Thread-2 (most likely raised during interpreter shutdown):
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 530, in __bootstrap_inner
  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.7-intel/egg/threadpool.py", line 160, in run
<type 'exceptions.AttributeError'>: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'exc_info'
Exception in thread Thread-5 (most likely raised during interpreter shutdown):
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 530, in __bootstrap_inner
  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.7-intel/egg/threadpool.py", line 160, in run
<type 'exceptions.AttributeError'>: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'exc_info'

After a night and day of it working fine I got the following error: "GooglePhotosException: (403, 'Forbidden', 'Token expired')" until it returns "IOError: [Errno 24] Too many open files: '/var/folders/7P/7PlxwEIyFqKTLR-A9MP12U+++TI/-Tmp-/tmpMpSW1z'" and the script fails. Is there any way to continue where it left off? Thanks though! I'll definitely give it another go later on.

I get this error when running the migration:

gdata.photos.service.GooglePhotosException: (400, 'Bad Request', 'Description is too long, max length is 1000 characters.')

But how do I tell which image is causing that? The ones directly before this error do not have a description.

How come certain photos won't move for me? These photos are not over 100MB, and they're definitely not videos. The Picasa album gets created, but the photos never move over, and the script just ends.


Moving "Esther Week 1" set over to a picasa album. 1/37
Gathering set "Esther Week 1" information.
Found 4 photos and videos in the Esther Week 1 flickr set.
"Esther Week 1" set already exists as an album in Picasa.
Queuing photo 1/4, of album Esther Week 1 for moving.
Queuing photo 2/4, of album Esther Week 1 for moving.
Queuing photo 3/4, of album Esther Week 1 for moving.
Queuing photo 4/4, of album Esther Week 1 for moving.
Moving "Children's Museum 2011" set over to a picasa album. 2/37
Gathering set "Children's Museum 2011" information.
Video "" of "Esther Week 1" already exists in download cache of files over 100MB. Aborting download.
 Video "" of "Esther Week 1" already exists in download cache of files over 100MB. Aborting download.
Video "" of "Esther Week 1" already exists in download cache of files over 100MB. Aborting download.
Video "" of "Esther Week 1" already exists in download cache of files over 100MB. Aborting download.

Hi there,

Whenever I run the script it runs file for the first few files and then it just stops. The temp files don't seem to be downloading and I have to restart the script. Any ideas? No error message is given.

Hi thanks for your work I have the following error, do you have any clue?

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/henri/Downloads/migrateflickrtopicasanokeyresize.py", line 27, in <module>
    from PIL import Image
ImportError: No module named PIL