About

I wrote flickr_email because I couldn't find a way to notify friends and family members that new (private) pictures had been posted to my Flickr.

Install

Install the dependencies with pip or easy_install:

• Jinja2
• flickr_api
• var_dump

Clone the project: git clone http://www.github.com/paour/flickr_email

Run

Authorize the app

• Create a new app on Flickr

• Run python flickr_email.py once without arguments, which will create a file called state.ini

• Edit state.ini to provide your API_KEY and API_SECRET

• To add a user

  • Run python flickr_email.py --user_add, which provides a URL
  • Open the URL (you can send it to another user), and authorize the app, this will provide a result containing an oauth_verifier
  • Run python flickr_email.py --user_auth_verifier <oauth_verifier> to finalize authorizing the user

• You can also use an interactive authorization system or use an existing old (pre-OAuth) token (but be warned Flickr will then disable that token for other apps), see the help for more info

Configure email parameters

• Edit state.ini and set the smtp_from and smtp_to parameters (if you're not using the local sendmail, you can set the smtp_server, smtp_port, smtp_tls, smtp_user and smtp_password); smtp_to, smtp_cc and smtp_bcc are comma-separated lists of bare email addresses

• You can customize the email.jinja2 file, which is a Jinga2 template and receives the user_photos (a dict of username: flickr.photos.recentlyUpdated associations), user_photos_by_taken (sorted by capture date rather than latest update) and users (a dict of username: flickr.people.getInfo associations)

Run the script

• Just run python flickr_email.py to cause emails to be sent; on first run, it will select photos from the last day and on subsequent runs, new photos since the last run (delete last_date in state.ini to reset)

Run in Docker

• docker run paour/flickr_email -v config:/app/config