A script to upload files to Picasa Web Albums
Today I backed up all my family pictures and videos to Picasa Web Albums. For several months I have been thinking of ways to backup my pictures to somewhere outside my house. I wanted something simple, scalable and inexpensive. When I read that Google+ users can store unlimited pictures sized <= 2048 x 2048 and videos <= 15 minutes long , I decided to try using Google+ to back up my media. Full disclosure: I work for Google, which probably predisposes me to like and use Google technologies. Unfortunately I had my pictures in so many folders that it wasn't very convenient to use either Picasa or Picasa Web Albums Uploader to upload them. Luckily, I'm a programmer, and Picasa Web Albums has a public API for uploading images. Over the course of an afternoon, I wrote a Python script to upload my pictures and videos from my home computer to my Picasa Web Album account. I put it up on GitHub: picasawebuploader Good things: The Google Data Protocol is eas...