migratr issues
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December 04, 2009, 08:26 AM
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did a full import and selective export using migratr today. the basics of it seemed to work, but there were some gaps in functionality too. it's .net - so i had to run it through parallels in os x.
i made a list of possible improvements.
migratr features necessary for 'seamless' migratr based flickr to 23hq migration
1. don't print title twice.
2. convert geo info to "machine tags" on upload, or add geo info to EXIF.
3. upload all private images as such.
4. store spaces in multiword tags on import, and use them at export.
5. set an "album cover photo".
6. don't attempt to download/upload flickr videos.
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December 04, 2009, 05:17 PM
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Doesn't sound like it was a very clean process. Were there enough workarounds to make the approach doable?
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December 04, 2009, 10:09 PM
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no. i'm going to have to contact the migratr dev.
the problems seem all to be with migratr though, not 23hq. the endpoints are all there.
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December 04, 2009, 10:49 PM
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i'm beginning to think the best way to do it is using the "upload url" method that 23hq supports:
http://www.23hq.com/forums/message-view?message_id=2074752#message2099067
either a flickr specific bookmarklet that fills the parameters in 23hq's upload url structure, or a greasemonkey script that does the same.
then you just go through your images on flickr page by page, and move the "best stuff" over here one image at a time.
i don't have the javascript skills to make such a script or bookmarklet, though it looks like it would be relatively simple.
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December 04, 2009, 11:03 PM
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actually, such a script wouldn't have to be merely selective. it could "turn the page" and execute itself on its own, and just slowly transfer all of your photos for you, over in its own browser window.
you could stop it any time you wanted, and resume merely by browsing back to where you stopped last time, and invoking the script again.
that's better than migratr on a host of levels - because it is cross platform and because it is a true "sideload". migratr is annoying because you have to backup locally and then upload, which is tedious and memory consuming.
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