Upload photos to facebook from Nautilus

EDIT:
~UPDATED 15-07-2010
Added ability to create album.
Photo's will be auto-rotated if EXIF information is available.
12-JUN-2010
reworked the mechanism to work with the new FBCMD.
Does not need a manual update of albumdata file (will be handled on it's own.)

If you run this on a directory, it will upload all *.jpg files in said directory.

30-MAY-09
Fixed stupid bug where the cancelling uploaded the picture anyway.Thank you Mr. Anonymous bug reporter.

It's been a while since I've posted an update, not that I suspect that anybody missed me or anything. Nonetheless I'm throwing out an obligatory apology and the explaination for it being "been busy"

anyway this is something I whipped up today that somebody might find useful. It's a nautilus script that uploads your photos to facebook. So you can just right-click on a photo and upload it there.It's fairly basic (offers multiple uploads,album-selection, no-tagging,no caption), and once again it's not completely idiot proof so I'm not taking responsibility if you muck something up.

currently this depends on the following

• libnotify (particularly notify-send)
• zenity
• imagemagick
• fbcmd (and hence php)
  

fbcmd here being the facebook command-line application by Dave Tompkins, which can be found at http://fbcmd.dtompkins.com. So once you have that up and running and properly authorized (find instructions on fbcmd page)

The script needs to go into ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts


Next you should setup an albumid file because it's faster if you maintain a local list). Do this by running

php fbcmd.php albums | tee ~/.fbaids

if you'd rather fetch album information from facebook everytime you can replace the line "aidlist=~/.fbaids" with "aidlist=\"$(php FBCMDPATH albums)\""
that should do it.


please note that I haven't implemented a check on weather the upload was successful or not. Also there is no filetype check so be careful.

#!/bin/bash
# AUTHOR: (c) Naail Abdul Rahman (http://kudanai.blogspot.com)
# VERSION: 1.0
# LICENSE: GPL (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html)
# REQUIRES: libnotify, zenity, FBCMD (http://fbcmd.dtompkins.com),imagemagick
# NAME:  Upload to Facebook
# DESCRIPTION: Simple nautilus script to invoke FBCMD upload functionality.
#  Currently only supports pictures.Hope to adding notes as well.
#  FBCMD is a command line interface to facebook by Dave Tompkins 
 
fbcmdl=fbcmd #command to invoke fbcmd...usually just fbcmd
 
function notify() {
 notify-send -i fbnotif UPLOADING "$@"
}
 
function makealbum() {
 title=$(zenity --entry --title="Title?" --text="Enter Album Title (Required):")
 if [ -z $title ]
 then 
  getaid
 fi
 
 desc=$(zenity --entry --title="Description?" \
  --text="Enter a description for the album (optional):\nLeave blank if you don't want to set a descroption")
 location=$(zenity --entry --title="Location?" \
  --text="Enter a location for the album (optional):\nLeave blank if you don't want to set a location")
 privacyOpt=$(zenity --entry --title="Privacy?" \
  --text="Who can see this album? (default:everyone)\n1.friends\n2.friends-of-friends\n3.networks\n4.everyone")
 
  case $privacyOpt in
   1) privacy="friends"
    ;;
   2) privacy="friends-of-friends"
    ;;
   3) privacy="networks"
    ;;
   4) privacy="everyone"
    ;;
   *) privacy="everyone"
    ;;
  esac
 notify "creating album $title"
 $fbcmdl addalbum "${title}" "${desc}" "${location}" $privacy
}
 
function getaid() {
 
 aid=$(zenity --entry --title="Album?" \
   --text="Enter AlbumID or #\n\nenter:\n  0 for list\n  l (low L) for latest\n a for new")
  
 if [ -z $aid ];
 then
  echo "null value for aid - quiting"
  notify "upload cancelled"
  exit
 else
  case $aid in
   0) echo "please wait, fetching album data"
    $fbcmdl albums | zenity --text-info \
       --title "album names and stuff" --width=600
    getaid
    ;;
   l) aid="latest"
    ;;
   a) makealbum
    echo "created album.."
    aid="latest"
    ;;
  esac
 fi
}
 
getaid
notify "uploading photos"
  
for arg 
do
 if [ -f $arg ]
 then
  echo "adding regular file ${arg}"
  convert -auto-orient -resize '604>' "$arg" /tmp/fbuplpictmpxx.jpg
  $fbcmdl addpic /tmp/fbuplpictmpxx.jpg $aid
 elif [ -d $arg ]
 then
  echo "uploading directory ${arg}"
  $fbcmdl addpicd $arg $aid
 fi
done
 
notify "upload finished"
exit