smugmug to flickr rss

I like the flickr sidebar widget

which prompted me to upgrade my flickr account. But I really wanted to use my smugmug feed as that is my main photo site.

WordPress.com offers the flickr widget but nothing for smugmug. I tried the plain RSS sidebar widget but I only get a list of links which isn’t quite as cool.

I created a perl script that would transform my smugmug RSS feed into a Flickr RSS feed. Smugmug uses a standard RSS 2.0 feed, while flickr uses Yahoo’s media rss. I couldn’t find an easy way to do the transformation, so I took the long way of parsing the incoming RSS feed, then creating a new one. I’m running the script on my home server, which runs quite slow at the moment, but it works.

That’s pretty cool IMO Here is the script, or you can download it from here:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use LWP;
use XML::RSS;

my $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => 'http://familiarodriguez.smugmug.com/hack/feed.mg?Type=nicknameRecentPhotos&Data=familiarodriguez&format=rss200');
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $resp = $ua->request($req);

# rss feed
# my $resp->content;
my $smugrss = new XML::RSS;
$smugrss->parse($resp->content);

my $s2frss = new XML::RSS;
$s2frss->add_module(prefix=>'media', uri=>'http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/');

# copy the channel
my $smugchan = $smugrss->{'channel'};
$s2frss->channel(title  => $smugchan->{'title'},
                 link   => $smugchan->{'link'},
                 description => $smugchan->{'description'},
                 pubDate => $smugchan->{'pubDate'},
                 lastBuildDate => $smugchan->{'lastBuildDate'},
                 generator => $smugchan->{'generator'},
                 copyright => $smugchan->{'copyright'});

$s2frss->image(title => $smugrss->{'image'}->{'title'},
               url   => $smugrss->{'image'}->{'url'},
               link  => $smugrss->{'image'}->{'link'});

# copy items
foreach my $item (@{$smugrss->{'items'}}) {
   $s2frss->add_item(
      title       => $item->{'title'},
      link        => $item->{'link'},
      description => $item->{'description'},
      pubDate     => $item->{'pubDate'},
      author      => $item->{'author'},
      guid        => $item->{'guid'},
      category    => $item->{'category'},
      media => {
        title     => $item->{'title'},
        text      => $item->{'description'},
        content => {
          url     => $item->{'enclosure'}->{'url'},
          type    => "image/jpeg",
          height  => "100",  # change later
          width   => "100"
        },
        thumbnail => {
          url     => $item->{'enclosure'}->{'url'},
          height  => "100",  # change later
          width   => "100"
        }
      }
   );
}

print "Content-Type: text/xmlnn";
$s2frss->{output} = "2.0";
print $s2frss->as_string;

sm-photo-tool - python script for smugmug.com

I created a home for the popular sm_tool.py script I use to upload my pictures to smugmug.com. Checkout the project here: http://code.google.com/p/sm-photo-tool/