{"id":238,"date":"2013-07-26T16:45:14","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T16:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebillplease.io\/play\/?p=238"},"modified":"2022-01-19T01:57:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T01:57:50","slug":"automatically-post-photos-from-dslr-to-tumblr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebillplease.io\/play\/2013\/07\/26\/automatically-post-photos-from-dslr-to-tumblr\/","title":{"rendered":"Automatically post photos from DSLR to Tumblr"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve always been frustrated by the painful workflow required to keep loved ones up-to-date with our photos. We have a DSLR and take a ton of pictures, but generally take 6 months to 1 year to cull through and upload them. That is a fail. I wanted to easily be able to select the photos we liked right after shooting and have the upload process magically happen from there without any computers or cables. <\/p>\n

So, I began researching and discovered a product that help me get 90% of the way there – EyeFi Memory cards! They are awesome and somewhat magical – how can a memory card also have WiFi enabled?<\/p>\n

Not only do they have WiFi, but you can have it easily upload to several services (Picassa, Facebook, etc). Unfortunately, I wanted to have the photos be uploaded to Tumblr; an integration they didn’t provide out of the box.<\/p>\n

To solve that, I ended up using their upload to ftp service and created a small php script that ran at a set interval through a cron job.<\/p>\n

The php script basically looks at the photos uploaded and emails the newly uploaded photos. Code is can be found here: https:\/\/github.com\/thebillplease\/tinker\/blob\/master\/listdb.php<\/a><\/p>\n

Setup:
\n– EyeFi 8GB card configured for ftp upload
\n– Camera
\n– Ftp server
\n– Cron Job
\n– Tumblr email address <\/p>\n

Note: There is a weird cap on Tumblr’s side that only accepts the first 4 photos from an email. I have already reached out to them. They have acknowledged the issue, but have not provided a deadline for the fix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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