Flickr upload

I had not used Flickr in 18 months and when I wanted to use it today my script didn't work anymore since they have changed their API significantly in the meantime. Simply updating the perl module was not enough and I found the documentation the the web to be rather cryptic. Thus as a service to the community, this is what finally worked for me:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Flickr::API;
use Flickr::Upload;

# Path to pictures to be uploaded
my $flickrdir = '/home/robert/fotos/flickr';

my $flickr_key = 'PUT YOUR KEY HERE';
my $flickr_secret = 'PUT YOUR SECRET HERE';


my $ua = Flickr::Upload->new( {'key' => $flickr_key, 'secret' => $flickr_secret} );
$ua->agent( "perl upload" );


my $frob = getFrob( $ua );
my $url = $ua->request_auth_url('write', $frob);
print "1. Enter the following URL into your browser\n\n",
"$url\n\n",
"2. Follow the instructions on the web page\n",
"3. Hit when finished.\n\n";

<>;
my $auth_token = getToken( $ua, $frob );
die "Failed to get authentication token!" unless defined $auth_token;

print "Token is $auth_token\n";


opendir(FLICKR, $flickrdir) || die "Cannot open flickr directory $flickrdir: $!";
while(my $fn = readdir FLICKR){
next unless $fn =~ /[^\.]/;
print "$flickrdir/$fn\n";

$ua->upload(
'auth_token' => $auth_token,
'photo' => "$flickrdir/$fn",
'is_family' => 1
) or print "Failed to upload $fn!\n";

}




sub getFrob {
my $ua = shift;

my $res = $ua->execute_method("flickr.auth.getFrob");
return undef unless defined $res and $res->{success};

# FIXME: error checking, please. At least look for the node named 'frob'.
return $res->{tree}->{children}->[1]->{children}->[0]->{content};
}

sub getToken {
my $ua = shift;
my $frob = shift;

my $res = $ua->execute_method("flickr.auth.getToken",
{ 'frob' => $frob ,
'perms' => 'write'} );
return undef unless defined $res and $res->{success};

# FIXME: error checking, please.
return $res->{tree}->{children}->[1]->{children}->[1]->{children}->[0]->{content};
}

You need a key and a secret which you can generate here. Of course, you also need the module

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Flickr::Upload

Then all you have to do is to copy (or link) all pictures to be uploaded to one directory (/home/robert/fotos/flickr in my case) and run the script. It gives you an URL you have to paste into your browser and then press ok and the upload begins.