vdesouza / auto-upload

A ruby script utilizing APIs from 500px to automate multiple photo uploads to a 500px account.

Auto upload tool for 500px

A ruby script to automate photo uploads to a personal account on 500px.com.

generateauth.rb will generate a yaml file with oauth credentials that the script will use. Requires a user's consumer_key and consumer_secret.

autoupload.rb uses the generated yaml file to authenticate user using API calls from 500px.com. Script takes in as arguments file paths to images wanting to be uploaded. Script also requires mini_exiftool ruby gem installed.

Script uses mini_exiftool to generate:

• photo name
• photo description
• camera settings such as shutter speed, focal length, aperture, iso, camera model, camera make, and lens used
• tags

The information should be saved in the metadata of the photograph.

Future todos:

• add error handling for when upload cannot be completed such as reaching weekly upload limit.