Post archive for October, 2008

Django-Picasso

Posted by on October 22, 2008.

I love Google's Picasa desktop application, and the ability to upload photos to the Picasa Web Albums site using the app is extremely useful. When I built my personal website using Django, I wanted a way to use Picasa Web Albums as a backend for my photos section so that I could take advantage of the easy uploads. I couldn't find a Django pluggable app that fit what I was looking for, so I decided to go ahead and make one using the Picasa Web Albums API and the GData Python client. Django-Picasso is a relatively simply way to synchronize data from the Picasa Web Albums API into your local database and use it in your web application. It does this using a script that integrates the GData Python client and a set of Django models. This script can be called from the custom management command that I built and ...

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