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title: "PhotoBucketGrabber"
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summary: "Download all your photos from PhotoBucket using this Python script."
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author: "Abdullah Tarawneh"
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date: "2019-03-17"
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tags: ["python", "photobucket", "automation", "scripting", "archive", "export", "download"]
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category: "Code"
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cover: "/images/photobucketgrabber.jpg"
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## The problem
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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.
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## The research
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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.
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Additionally, direct URLs maintain the folder and file names, so the path structure can be saved directly using Python's Path library.
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## The solution
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See my source code here: https://github.com/trwnh/PhotoBucketGrabber
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Limitations:
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- The prefix to be stripped is hardcoded, because it will always be the same for an account.
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- 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. |