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A Bash Script to Download Entire PicasaWeb Albums

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 15, 2008

[ Thanks to Loïc
Cerf
for this link. ]

“Google restricts the download of entire PicasaWeb albums to
users of its proprietary (and Windows only) software Picasa. A
fairly simple Bash script can do that and even more.

“<mylife>
I finally succeeded in making my mother understand that there
exists cleaner ways to share her Christmas pictures than filling up
her contacts’ mail boxes. Thus, she has got a PicasaWeb ‘gallery’
she feeds via F-Spot. She had such a success with her ‘novel’
approach that the rest of the family now does the same. Now, she
wants to download a whole album without having to visualize the
pictures one by one.
</mylife>


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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