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title = "PhotoBucketGrabber"
summary = "Download all your photos from PhotoBucket using this Python script."
author = "Abdullah Tarawneh"
date = "2019-03-17"
tags = ["python", "photobucket", "automation", "scripting", "archive", "export", "download"]
categories = ["Code"]
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## The problem

I had an old PhotoBucket account that I wanted to archive and delete. However, it would take an extremely long time to manually save each photo and recreate any albums' folder structure.

## The research

PhotoBucket allows copying direct image links, and it also allows copying multiple links at the same time. This is used to obtain a list of all photo direct URLs, which can be saved in a text file and read by a script.

Additionally, direct URLs maintain the folder and file names, so the path structure can be saved directly using Python's Path library.

## The solution

See my source code here: https://github.com/trwnh/PhotoBucketGrabber

Limitations:

- The prefix to be stripped is hardcoded, because it will always be the same for an account.
- There is no way to programmatically obtain a list of all photos or albums from Photobucket, as far as I know, so the selection step is still manual. I think for a one-time task, this is probably not an issue, as it would take more time to attempt to code a solution than it would to simply select all photos from the web dashboard.
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			`title = "PhotoBucketGrabber"`
			`summary = "Download all your photos from PhotoBucket using this Python script."`
			`author = "Abdullah Tarawneh"`
			`date = "2019-03-17"`
			`tags = ["python", "photobucket", "automation", "scripting", "archive", "export", "download"]`
			`categories = ["Code"]`
			`+++`
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			`## The problem`

			`I had an old PhotoBucket account that I wanted to archive and delete. However, it would take an extremely long time to manually save each photo and recreate any albums' folder structure.`

			`## The research`

			`PhotoBucket allows copying direct image links, and it also allows copying multiple links at the same time. This is used to obtain a list of all photo direct URLs, which can be saved in a text file and read by a script.`

			`Additionally, direct URLs maintain the folder and file names, so the path structure can be saved directly using Python's Path library.`

			`## The solution`

			`See my source code here: https://github.com/trwnh/PhotoBucketGrabber`

			`Limitations:`

			`- The prefix to be stripped is hardcoded, because it will always be the same for an account.`
			`- There is no way to programmatically obtain a list of all photos or albums from Photobucket, as far as I know, so the selection step is still manual. I think for a one-time task, this is probably not an issue, as it would take more time to attempt to code a solution than it would to simply select all photos from the web dashboard.`