Saturday, November 15, 2008

A Bash script to download the picasa albums

Google restricts the download of picasa web albums to the users with Picasa software only. Google released their Picasa version for linux - Redhat and Ubuntu sometime back. Today i installed the Picasa2.7 version in ubuntu. It is working fine. But the download feature is not working in picasa web link. I think it is a known issue with Firefox, in linux or some add-ons might be required.

So, i started googling. I ended up in this link - http://blue-gnu.biz/content/bash_script_quickly_download_entire_picasaweb_albums

Thanks for the problem. ..:) This bash script is working very fine in linux. I should say it is faster than download with picasa software. Anyway i started learning more about bash scripting. In my last article, i wrote about scripting using Python - Scripting is very powerful tool for most of the linux users.