[Digikam-users] Importing captions + comments from Web-Gallery

[Renchi Raju]

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Felix Eckhofer <felix at tribut.de>
> Is there any way to import pictures (more importantly descriptions and
> comments) from a gallery on the web?
> While I was travelling I used to upload my pictures using
> http://gallery.sf.net and now I'm looking for some way to get those
> pictures into my favourite KDE photo management software.
> 
> If there is no such solution yet - is a KIPI plugin the right way to
> cope with something like this?

No solution yet. KIPI plugin would be one way of doing it. How are you
planning on retrieving the metadata? Web access and screen scraping or
direct filesystem level read (assuming that  you are on the server)?

Another possibility is to use some scripts and use jhead to embed the
comments into the image files. And then ask digikam to import these
files. In the upcoming 0.8, the comments will be extracted from images
at the import stage.