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Download album from Picasa with Python
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| import urllib | |
| from xml.dom import minidom | |
| ''' | |
| Opens an xml and parse it | |
| Could fetch the xml from Picasa instead of fetching from the disk. | |
| ''' | |
| print 'Fetching xml...' | |
| sock = open('xml.xml') | |
| xmldoc = minidom.parse(sock).documentElement | |
| sock.close() | |
| print 'Fetched xml.' | |
| '''Parse the xml''' | |
| print 'Parsing xml...' | |
| dataContainer = [] | |
| for entry in xmldoc.getElementsByTagName('media:content'): #media:content is the tag that has the url of the photo | |
| if entry.hasAttribute('url'): | |
| '''append the url to a list''' | |
| dataContainer.append(entry.getAttribute('url')) | |
| print 'xml parsed.' | |
| '''Iterate over the url list downloading the files and printing info''' | |
| i = 1; | |
| for entry in dataContainer: | |
| print "Downloading %s of %s" %(i, len(dataContainer)) | |
| urllib.urlretrieve(entry, "foto%s.jpg"%i) #foto%s is the name i chose...foto1.jpg, foto2.jpg, etc | |
| i = i+1 |
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