Introduction

Flickr Schedulr is a Windows desktop application that automatically uploads pictures to Flickr based on a schedule (e.g. to post a new picture every day at a certain time). It allows you to create a queue of pictures to be uploaded, along with their titles, descriptions, tags, and the photoset into which they should end up.

This effectively takes the hassle of uploading pictures at regular intervals away, and allows you to go out and have fun shooting pictures (or drinking beer) while your photoblog is maintained for you.

Features

Easily maintain a queue of pictures to be uploaded to Flickr.
Edit the title, description, tags and visibility settings for each picture, and optionally the photosets and groups to which the picture must be added.
Get a visual overview of the queue through the inline picture previews.
Drag and drop pictures onto the queue from Windows Explorer.
When present in the file, automatically retrieves the title, description and tags from the picture when it is added to the queue.
Warns you if there are pictures in your queue that are larger than the maximum file size you are allowed to upload.
Can be run from the command line with the "/upload" switch to upload the next picture in the queue.
Keeps a history of all pictures that have been uploaded.
Shows you all your important account information, e.g. your remaining upload quota.
Import and export the configuration (containing queued and uploaded pictures).
All settings are automatically saved when you close the application.

If you can think of other great features, please let me know! You can get in touch with me through the dedicated Schedulr Group on Flickr, through FlickrMail if you make me a contact (I'm at http://www.flickr.com/photos/jelledruyts) or through the contact form on my website.

Getting Started

The first time you run the application, you will be asked to authenticate with Flickr and authorize this application to access your account (this is needed to upload pictures). You can then simply add the pictures to be sent to Flickr in the "Queued Pictures" list. You can either use the Add button or drag and drop files onto the grid.

The title, description and tags are automatically filled in if the picture file contained this information, otherwise enter the necessary details for each picture yourself. You can also specify the photoset to which the picture should be added in Flickr. You can change the defaults in the Options screen, e.g. to always use the same photoset for all files that are added.

Then use Windows Tasks Scheduler to run Flickr Schedulr at your desired schedule with the "/upload" command line argument. Every time the task is run, the first item in the queue will then be uploaded and moved to the "Uploaded Pictures" list.

Installation

Before this application can be used, the free Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0 must be installed. Chances are that you already have it (it comes with Windows Vista and you might be using other applications that installed it already) but if not, it is available for free at Microsoft's download page for the .NET Framework. The application can be installed by executing the installer or by just copying it to a destination directory of your choice. Uninstalling can be done through the Windows control panel or (if you simply copied it) is just a matter of deleting the files again.

What's New?

v1.2 (December 4, 2007)

You can now choose Groups and multiple Photosets to associate your pictures with.
I'm also releasing the source code from now on (built on .NET 2.0 with Visual Studio 2008).
I've set up a dedicated Schedulr Group on Flickr, a community site where you can ask questions, give comments, complain about bugs (what, bugs?!) and post pictures - uploaded with Schedulr of course!

v1.1 (November 12, 2007)

You can now move pictures directly to the top or bottom of the upload queue.
You can now shuffle the upload queue to make a randomized list of pictures to upload.
You can now upload all selected pictures in the upload queue with the "Upload Now" button.
You can now get inline previews of the pictures inside the Queued Pictures list.
You can now import and export the current configuration (containing queued and uploaded pictures).
You can now see how many items are in the queue and which one you are editing.
You can now easily navigate up and down in the queue from anywhere with the ALT+UP and ALT+DOWN keys.

v1.0 (October 19, 2007)

Initial release.

License

This software is licensed as freeware.

Copyright (c) 2007, Jelle Druyts (http://jelle.druyts.net/)
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