Right Click Upload to Flickr
by Duncan on February 20, 2006
(updated sept 2007)
If you’re using OSX Tiger and Flickr you might be interested in the ability to send images to Flickr by right clicking and hitting send. This is useful if you use Flickr for image hosting for your blog or you just want a really quick way to upload images to Flickr.
- Download this automator action
- Unzip and copy the Flickr.action file into ~/Library/Automator.
- Open Automator (in your applications folder)
- Add the Flickr Action to your workflow (you can search flickr and it should show up if you did #2 correctly)
- Authenticate it
- Click File, Save As Plug-in (name it Save to Flickr or whatever) and choose finder in the drop down menu.
- Now right click on an image(s) anywhere in the finder and choose Automator -> Save to Flickr (whatever you named it) and your images are sent off to Flickr with the tags/privacy settings you chose.
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⌘-shift-3 (whole screen)
⌘-shift-4-drag box (whatever you select)
This automator action can be used in a number of interesting ways. For example I made a timelapse with it. You can combine it with other automator actions to do whatever you need. You could use Automator to crop 100 images and then upload to them all to Flickr at the end. If you want to loop your automator actions you can use this.
If you want to take some screenshots and upload them to Flickr use these shortcuts:
Images are then saved to your desktop as Picture 1, Picture 2… Now its as easy as right clicking them to upload to Flickr…
Technorati Tags: Automator, Flickr
23 comments
this seems like it should work, but i get a “workflow failed” on my menubar and an “applescript error (null)” popup. any suggestions?
by anthony on February 24, 2006 at 3:54 pm #
Try running the flickr uploader from within automator first to make sure it is working for you.
Use get selected finder items + flick upload action to test it…
Make sure you use your entire flickr sign in (your email address)
by Duncan on February 24, 2006 at 4:04 pm #
Hi Duncan. Nice tip/hack. Have you played Flickr TagMan? You could start at the end for you.
by TagMan on February 24, 2006 at 5:44 pm #
Evidently, Frasier’s action doesn’t work on the new Intel Macs.
by Mike Harris on February 24, 2006 at 11:05 pm #
Great! Found more flickr tools
by tim on February 25, 2006 at 3:34 am #
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Whey! This is great, I was initially looking for an applescript that would let me have a dropbox which would upload all my photos to flickr but this is a smarter was of doing it as i dont need lots more folders cluttering up my desktop. Thanks
by Ali on March 28, 2007 at 8:21 am #
Ali,
some have said that this has stopped working
can you let us know if you get it to work?
thanks
by Duncan on March 28, 2007 at 8:43 am #
This one should work on intel macs great – Automator Flickr Uploader
by Jim on May 15, 2007 at 9:08 am #
FYI, I just created a nice and simple cocoa app for uploading screen shots to Flickr on your mac. Its as easy as cmd-shft-3!. Check out http://www.driftinglight.com/flickscreen
Enjoy,
Bryan
by Bryan on November 28, 2007 at 11:10 am #
nice bryan!
thx
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by The Last Minute Blog » links for 2007-11-29 on November 28, 2007 at 8:23 pm #
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce
by Idetrorce on December 15, 2007 at 3:32 am #
you guys are a bunch of maco’s where can i get this for windows or linux?
by WindowsSux on January 23, 2008 at 11:53 am #
plz make it for linux, too
by Garaniq on August 1, 2010 at 2:01 pm #