[EN] Import your Flickr sets to ipernity :)

By Team ^club

21 Jun 2013 - 26 comments | Translate title into English

To whom it may concern, we now offer a script to import your Flickr sets to ipernity albums :)

Due to technical limitations things are not as smooth as they could be but if you carefully read the following instructions, you should be able to transfer your sets without any problems.

To import a set go to the Flickr set page and click on "CLICK HERE TO START Flickr set importer" underneath the banner on the top of the album page.

For every photo of the set:

if the photo has already been imported to ipernity it will be added to a similar album on ipernity;
if the photo is not yet on ipernity it will be imported BUT NOT ADDED TO THE ALBUM. YOU WILL NEED TO RELAUNCH THE SCRIPT TO ADD IT.

No worries you will be notified if you need to relaunch the script or not. The script will be able to relaunch when all your imported photos are processed on the ipernity side.

This means that only one album may be imported in a maximum of two script passes.

Other important points:

only photos are imported, no videos.
only the first 2000 photos of a set are imported (it's the max number of items that can contain an album on ipernity)
the cover photo and description of the Flickr set are imported as well;
empty photo titles are now kept empty on ipernity (there was previously a bug, we fixed it)
don't be afraid if you import a set already imported. It will not be imported twice.

Now it's time to play :)

>> Go here for prerequisites and to install the Flickr set importer script <<

Please tell us if you encounter problems or bugs.

Have fun!

The ipernity Team

appaloosa, , arts enthusiast, and 11 other people have particularly liked this article

26 comments - The latest ones

Jen Pedler ^club

This is wonderful, thank you. Just tested on two albums and they came across perfectly. It's great for someone like me who's already imported 5k+ photos as the two stage process avoids duplicates but also catches the few that got lost in the migration before (as was the case with the second album I imported). Will be doing more over the next few days. I love it here already and it just gets better and better.
Merci beaucoup.
(Mais, où est la traduction française? :-)

13.4 years ago.

???

I've imported two small sets, and the script has worked well.

But what am I supposed to do with my giant sets of more than 2000 photos? Is there an easy way to import images 2001 and higher?

13.4 years ago.

Team ^club has replied to ???

Not yet. We must think about splitting albums. Something like "My travels-1" (containing photos from 1 to 2000) and "My travels-2" (containing photos from 2001 to 4000) etc...
But it'll need more time to improve this script.

13.4 years ago.

??? has replied to Team ^club

Hi!

Thanks for your reply. :-)

At present, I'm importing the smaller sets (less than 500 photos), and I'm well content with how well and fast the script works.

If I'm lucky, there may be no need at all for me to import the really large sets (i.e. 2000+), because most of my photos appear in 4 or 5 sets, and most of the sets are below the 2000 limit.

Bye,
Cameron

13.4 years ago.

Boodarai ^club

I previously used the Flickr.importer for batches, but found it often crashed at some point and then I had to do it again and ended up with loads of double uploads (the ones that imported before it crashed) and spent ages deleting the duplicates.

Now I wanted to try using the Flickr.album.importer but find I do NOT get the " CLICK HERE TO START Flickr set importer " in Flickr, and now the Flickr.importer button is gone too.

I've tried it in Chrome and Firefox and no luck with either

What's happening? What can I do?

13.3 years ago.

slgwv ^club

Thanks to the ipernity team for this script! I really like how it's smart enough to not import a picture twice if it's in two sets. I'd figured I'd have to make sure every pic was in only one set.

Thanks again--

13.3 years ago.

.:madworm:. ^club

What about in-image notes? Currently they get lost.

13.3 years ago.

slgwv ^club

I've imported several hundred albums successfully (thanks!), but a new problem has just started showing up: after clicking on the "OK" to start the script, it just shows "Good..." where the names of the previewed picture files should be appearing. Reloading the page and restarting the script often works, but sometimes it takes a dozen retries or more.

???

13.3 years ago.

Don Barrett (aka DBs… ^club

This was working for me a couple of weeks ago, but when I did it tonight, I ended with an album with only a few photos and duplicates on many photos. I waited 20 minutes between the end of the first launch and the relaunch, figuring that would be time enough.

The first time this happened (Los Angeles County set), I went through and deleted duplicates and made the album manually. The second time this happened (Los Angeles City set), I left it as it was.

13.3 years ago.

slgwv ^club

I imported several sets from Flickr earler this week, but after the change to group views, and it worked fine.

It seems that things can get flaky, with oddball and irreproducible problems, when web traffic is high. This seems to explain the problems I had described above a couple of weeks ago.

13.2 years ago.

Don Barrett (aka DBs… ^club

Last week I imported all of the sets that I wanted to import, so won't be using the script again. To get around the problem with duplicates being created, I first gave all of the photos in a set a unique tag (keyword) in Flickr, then did just the first pass, then found them in Ipernity on the keyword through 'organize,' and manually created the Ipernity albums.

13.2 years ago.

Don Barrett (aka DBs… ^club

I just checked and it is working on my Windows based system. One thing you didn't mention is whether you had opened a set -- the message about importing pops up after you open a set in Flickr and appears right below your banner.

13.2 years ago.

slgwv ^club

Just a new note for anyone else who's run into problems: if you've installed the Greasemonkey script that automatically displays the non-justified set view on Flickr, you must DISABLE it for the importer to work. It took me a few minutes to figure out why all of a sudden I couldn't import Flickr sets any more.

12.9 years ago.

arts enthusiast

Yes, I have also found that with recent formatting changes at flickr, there is no longer a link to import a flickr set to Ipernity. Up until about 2 weeks ago it was there. I would love to have this feature back. I usually import private photos to flickr for storage, then import to Ipernity to share. I like having my photos in two places since it feels safer from loss that way; however I don't like to have to do titles, captions and tags in both places. I can still import a single photo from flickr to ipernity, but importing an entire album was supremely helpful.

11.5 years ago. Edited 11.5 years ago.

arts enthusiast

MiguelATF: did you have to reinstall the Greasemonkey script? I'm just wondering because I still don't have the ability to import flickr albums, only individual images.

11.4 years ago.

B C

What am I doing wrong i can not import my sets once again. I loaded tampermonkey twice.

10.8 years ago.

Marja Savonije

Yes it is still working, I'm using it now. Great!

8.0 years ago.

Marja Savonije

I found that reloading the page showed the script. First time you open your album and see nothing, reload and then the script appears.

8.0 years ago.

Kieran Turner ^club

Update... it's working in Chrome but not Firefox. When you go to an album, change the URL to have "sets" where it said "albums" and the button will appear.

It's working with a few odd bugs. I'm finding a handful of photos freeze it (the same photos each time) — I'll post again if I can find out why.

7.8 years ago.

Sami Serola (inactiv… ^club has replied to Kieran Turner ^club

Which one of these scripts you tested?

www.ipernity.com/apps/gm

Flickr.importer To import all your photos from Flickr to ipernity (by batches of 90 photos)
Flickr2ipernity To import one by one your Flickr photos to ipernity.
Flickr.album.importer To import a Flickr set to an ipernity album

7.6 years ago.

Team ^club

Hi Kieran!

The Flickr Importer has not been updated since 2013. Apparently it was not an important feature for the former Ipernity S.A.. Now, as an independent club, we would of course be happy if someone could carry out a technical update.

Until then you can also choose an alternative import procedure described by Tobias Bauer.

Bernhard (ima)

7.8 years ago. Edited 7.8 years ago.

appaloosa

Where exactly is the "..go to the Flickr set page " as mentioned in the tutorial above?? Is this here? or on the Flickr site?

Can someone please clarify.. or post the link?

Merci!

6 weeks ago.

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