Niels

We don’t yet have a proper 23 API ready yet, but there are a few ways to automate uploading many files to 23, especially on Mac OS X. We’ll have actual script examples up later, but here are a few pointers for the über-geeks out there:

You can create an Automator script in Mac OS X to select photos from your iPhoto Library, loop through the photos, and send each of them as an attachment to your 23 mail upload address.

You can also use AppleScript and the curl program, which is pre-installed on Mac, to log in and upload the photos. Here is an example of someone who did something similar for moving photos from iPhoto to Drupal.

Finally, until we have an API or a desktop application, we have a “simple upload interface”. The URL is http://www.23hq.com/23/extupload/simple-upload which takes these arguments:

• username (required)
• password (required)
• file (required): Image file to upload
• private_p: 1 for a private photo, 0 for a public one (defaults to private)
• tags: Space-separated list of tags to apply
• album_id: Numeric album ID

Here’s an example of how to upload, again using curl:

curl -F file=@image.jpg -F username=myuser -F password=secret -F private_p=0 http://www.23hq.com/23/extupload/simple-upload

Warning: This interface may disappear at any time.

Q: Are you called 23 or 23 people??

A: We’re called 23!

Q: Why, then, is your homepage 23people.com? That’s kinda confusing, isn’t it?

A: Mmm, a very good question…let me get back to you…

(several moments later)

23’s new home and headquarter is 23hq.com.

We’re currently rolling out a new feature for 23: Stories. The basic idea is to make it possible to create new and different presentations of your photos.

To make a story works basically the same way as organizing photos. You start out browsing and selecting any number of photos, then you go on adding some text on the story page. If you want the photos organized in a different order, simply move the photos up and down until you are satisfied. You can create as many stories you like, and any one photo can, of course, be used in several stories.

We’re still working on this feature and brushing up things here and there, but why not follow Thomas’ example and go ahead and give it a try already?

By anarchichi

By shabab

Due to some server problems the website was down for 16 minutes from approximately 11:00 UTC this morning, and upload via email was down for at least two hours. We apologize for the inconvenience.