Lightroom to Gallery Export Plugin (Update 4)

Todays post is in English. Please forgive me.

On 16th of November, Lightroom 1.3 has been released. The most important change in this version is the introduction of the Lightroom SDK. Currently it supports the development of Export plugins, which allows sending images directly from Lightroom to other imaging services like online galleries, image communities, remote servers or just the local disc.

Since the very first time I used the Lightroom application, I was longing for a way to export my images directly into the Gallery 2. The new SDK enabled me to do just that. Therefore I needed to accustom myself with the Lightroom SDK, the Lua Scripting Language and the Gallery Remote Protocol. Quite some work. The Lightroom SDK was the most complex part and I also want to thank the people in the #lua IRC channel over at freenode.

The features of the “Lightroom to Gallery Export Plugin” read as follows:

  • Use all the know export options for image resizing, metadata, filename etc.
  • Supports latest Gallery version
  • Manages multiple servers
  • Select appropriate albums as upload target
  • Create gallery albums directly from Lightroom
  • Internationalized (currently only English is supported)

Download the current version: https://sourceforge.net/projects/lr-to-gallery/

Update 1 (v0.1.1):

  • Enabled the plugin to show the target album in the browser after the upload
  • Refined the GUI
  • Added Status messages to the login process

Update 2

  • To strengthen the development of this plugin i have released it as an open source project. The new home of the plugin is therefore: https://sourceforge.net/projects/lr-to-gallery/. This means that everybody is able to participate now. Additional developers are very welcome as are people who are willing to fill bugs or provide general feedback. :)
  • Speaking of feedback. Several people have reported problems when fetching the album list. I wasn’t able to reproduce these problems and therefore i need YOUR help. I’ll send you a special version of the plugin which logs the communication with the remote server. If you are willing to support the development, please contact me on moritzpost [at] gmx [.] de (this might be mac related so mac users… step up. :) )

Update 3 (v0.1.2)

  • The problem when displaying the album list has been solved. Please visit the project website to get the latest version of the plugin.

Update 4 (v0.1.3)
Good news for all you Lightroom 2.x users. We have just released a new version of the Lightroom to Gallery plugin which solves several issues with the new Lightroom version. You are now able to upload you images directly into your Gallery2 installation from within Lightroom 2.x.

Thanks goes out to all the people who have raised issues about the last release and helped us to straighten out any glitches.

Also we have a new developer amongst our ranks. Lars Heller has provided valuable contributions to this release and we are very happy to welcome him as a new committer. Way to go Lars! :)

  • Check album name when creating a new album
  • Cleaned up GalleryRemoteProtocol a bit to remove redundant code
  • Parameters sent to server are url encoded
  • Added support for German and French language

To install the plugin simply place the folder, contained in the zip file, in your Lightroom root directory. To choose the Gallery upload facilities select it from the top right corder of the Export dialog (see screenshot to the right).

Feel free to experiment with the plugin to your likings. Feedback is greatly appreciated in the comments section of this post :)

78 Responses to “Lightroom to Gallery Export Plugin (Update 4)”

  1. good job, if i had lightroom i would love it!!

    räph said this on November 23rd, 2007 at 09:20

  2. Great idea! And it works! I use the plugin for my Gallery.
    Maybe you should explain, how to change the main setting area, to enable the Gallery options.

    goox said this on November 23rd, 2007 at 22:44

  3. Hint: Ampersand (&) produces a transcoded text in the album dropdown box, if the album has one in its name.
    E.g. Motors & Cars -> Motors amp; Cars

    greets
    goox

    goox said this on November 23rd, 2007 at 22:51

  4. [...] Lightroom nach Gallery(2) direkt uploaden [...]

    goox Kolumne » Blog Archi » Lightroom zu Gallery said this on November 24th, 2007 at 02:02

  5. looks very good, though I can’t get it to work. I get “Make sure the login details and the server url are valid”. I use the same url and login details as I use for the Gallery Remote java app.. Any tips?

    eirik said this on November 24th, 2007 at 18:41

  6. @ eirik

    The server url might be the problem. it should be in the form “http://domain.com/gallery”. Other combinations are also possible and the plugin will try to substitute a valid url.

    Moritz Post said this on November 24th, 2007 at 21:03

  7. This is great stuff! En behalf of the Gallery team, thx for expanding the client base. Feel free to add this to http://codex.gallery2.org/Other_Clients

    Also, send me an email as I have a few questions for you regarding this. ;-)

    Christian Mohn said this on November 24th, 2007 at 22:58

  8. Hi there,

    Just tested your dev, it rocks, I will come back if I notice any glitch and link your page as this piece of software was the last missing part of my workflow.

    Great job and thanks for sharing !

    Boris

    Boris said this on November 25th, 2007 at 01:49

  9. Congratulations to your Lightroom Gallery 2 integration! From what I’ve read in the past, there’s sure a large demand for your plugin.

    Don’t forget to add the Lightroom G2 client integration at:
    http://codex.gallery2.org/Other_Clients

    Andy Staudacher said this on November 25th, 2007 at 16:25

  10. Like a lot from what I see here :) But I can’t get it to work :( It tells me it is logged in but I don’t get a list of my albums. Tried another similar plug-in and there it works. But I would love this one to work as it supports several galleries from one plug-in. Thanks for the efforts!

    Bob van Ooik said this on November 27th, 2007 at 19:05

  11. [...] 4. Export per Gallery, script per creare una galleria fotografica sul proprio sito (thanks to moritzpost) [...]

    Lightroom SDK - plugin per l'export | Freedreamer said this on November 28th, 2007 at 11:30

  12. @ Bob van Ooik

    I get the feeling that there might really be a problem, if you would like to eliminate this bug plz contact me directly. See the Update 2 of this post. :)

    Moritz Post said this on November 28th, 2007 at 14:35

  13. As I didnt figure it out immediatly: on a Mac install by dragging the .lrdevplugin folder into lightroom and the plugin will install automatically and resart lightroom.

    Great work! except for this little bug ;-)

    vagabond said this on November 28th, 2007 at 15:19

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    Meine del.icio.us bookmarks vom December 3rd bis December 3rd — servus.blog said this on December 4th, 2007 at 20:32

  15. nice plugin. do you think you’ll get title/caption exporting working anytime soon? that would be a real handy feature.

    peppy said this on December 7th, 2007 at 19:01

  16. This looks great – only problem is that it won’t log on to my Gallery2 install. I can login fine using Gallery Remote, or with the other uploader, but yours just gives me the ‘make sure the logon details and server url are correct’ message. Any thoughts?

    Rob said this on December 7th, 2007 at 21:57

  17. Nice tool! It just worked at the first instant with no hitches! Great! and it really rocks, Thanks a lot. But will it be possible to Syn the meta data in LR database and G2 database with out re-exporting the entire image. Suppose if add /change some EXIF/keyword tag etc, in LR after exporting to G2, now I want this, to be reflected at G2 with out exporting the whole image again.Any thoughts….

    KVS Setty said this on December 22nd, 2007 at 10:08

  18. @ Setty

    I am happy you like the plugin. For any feature requests it would be great to use the facilities on the sourceforge website. :) For this special item…

    Because of the limitations of the gallery remote protocol it is not possible to set any data on an image once it is placed on the server. So it is not possible to implement this feature although it would definitely label it as useful.

    Moritz Post said this on December 26th, 2007 at 13:47

  19. I had tried an earlier version of this plugin and it worked just fine. I installed the latest version and I get an error on upload saying. “postMultipart: chunk must contain either value or filePath” Any ideas? I know its not lightroom as another version worked fine.

    Paul Gardner said this on January 3rd, 2008 at 04:37

  20. Hi! great plugin but I have a big issue, I don’t know if it’s my fault or something else: I’ve installed in the correct folder your plugin and then when I try to upload a photo, lr give me back this bug:

    An internal error has occurred: Win32 API error (unknown error – - FormatMessageW failed) when calling HttpSendRequest from private_AgHttpClient_post_L

    I’m able to upload to my gallery only one pic per time, because if I send more then one image, plugin stops to function after the first upload.

    What can I do? thanks alot!

    mauro said this on January 4th, 2008 at 20:42

  21. @ mauro

    hello. this is something which happens to me too. I don’t know why that is, but i have reported it to the adobe people and they acknowledged it as a bug in the Lr HTTP client.

    The problem is that images with a size larger than 1.4 MB do cause this error stopping any other uploads.

    Moritz Post said this on January 5th, 2008 at 01:18

  22. ok got it! thanks, so all we have to do is just wait…

    mauro said this on January 8th, 2008 at 01:07

  23. I am having the same problem as Paul above – getting the error “postMultipart: chunk must contain either value or filePath” Any ideas? Thanks!!!

    John Ernest said this on January 12th, 2008 at 17:21

  24. Hey man,

    very nice work!!
    But I’m struggeling with a strange problem:
    Every time I hit Login, LR tells me that everything is fine except, that there were ‘No Albums Fetched’. I searched a little bit in the code, but could not figure out, why it won’t give me the album listing. I’m using LR 1.3.1 and gallery2.2.4 with lr-to-g2 v0.1.2. Does somebody have some experience with that kind of problem?

    Thanks
    - Henning

    Chillkroete said this on January 14th, 2008 at 09:13

  25. Hey again …

    ok, after enabling cookies in the Internet Explorer, it worked … thought, they use their own http engine – guess not ;)

    Thanks anyway
    - Henning

    Chillkroete said this on January 14th, 2008 at 09:22

  26. [...] und danach noch ein bischen mit Lightroom gebastelt und dann mit einem Lightroom to Gallery2 Plugin ins Netz synchronisiert. Hier könnt ihr euch das “Ehlend” mal anschauen: Ich [...]

    Bytes-Delivery » Photosafari quer durch Darmstadt said this on February 2nd, 2008 at 23:24

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    Bytes-Delivery » Photo Workflow said this on February 3rd, 2008 at 02:03

  28. This doesn’t work for me in LR v1.3.1 on Mac OSX 10.4.11. Lightroom tells me that it will install the plugin and restart, but when it has restarted the option is not available in the ‘Export’ menu. Has anyone got any ideas?

    Haydn said this on February 8th, 2008 at 13:18

  29. Thanks for the cool plugin. @Haydn: I did not found it on the first try either. It is in in the upper *right* corner of the export dialog.

    Arne said this on February 11th, 2008 at 02:57

  30. Hi Moritz
    Thanks a lot for this great plugin, I’ve been hoping to find such plugin for quite a while now. I’ve just tested it and it works just great! Thanks a lot, you’ve got yourself a HUGE fan!
    Cheers,
    Tomi

    Tomi said this on February 13th, 2008 at 12:26

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    Lightroom To Gallery Export Plugin » …hermes… said this on February 26th, 2008 at 21:11

  32. @Arne – thanks! Can’t believe I missed that! :) This is a brilliant plugin…

    Haydn said this on February 28th, 2008 at 16:41

  33. Driving me crazy here!

    At one point I believe the plugin did work, however for as long as I can remember when I try to connect, I get,

    “An internal error has occured: bad URL”

    I’ve tried deleting the plugin and starting fresh, however I get the same problem every time. I’m assuming settings are being saved elsewhere but I’m not sure where these settings might be. LrPrefs seems to be a good bet, but I can’t edit that with a plain text editor I don’t think, and deleting it is bad.

    Thoughts?
    (this is in Lightroom 1.3.1, thoguh it happened it 1.3 as well. Leopard 10.5.2)

    Thanks!

    shoelessone said this on March 6th, 2008 at 08:57

  34. Can’t get it to work. Put the “gallery_upload.lrplugin” directory from the archive in Lightroom’s root-directory. Doesn’t show up in Export. Moved it to my Lightroom’s application data directory. Doesn’t show up. Move it to Export Presets in the application data directory. Show’s up in Export, but greyed out. That’s as far as I can get it to work. Where do I extract the archive to?
    OS: Windows XP Pro
    LR Version: 1.3.1
    App. data directory: c:\documents and settings\administrator\application data\adobe\lightroom
    LR root directory: c:\program files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.3

    SwitchBL8 said this on March 19th, 2008 at 01:27

  35. Nevermind, it works. Because it didn’t work, I changed Info.lua to have SDK version 1.3.1, but that’s wrong.
    gallery_upload.lrplugin in LR root directory, click export and select the Gallery Upload from the dropdown. Simple.

    SwitchBL8 said this on March 19th, 2008 at 01:46

  36. Is it possible to add a feature so that you can export with previous settings? Meaning if you export images and forgot some you can simply re upload with logging all over again it remember what you did before

    jphilbert said this on March 21st, 2008 at 12:57

  37. @ jphilbert

    sorry this is not possible due to the gallery protocol restrictions. you would need to delete the image on the server first.

    Moritz Post said this on March 21st, 2008 at 23:46

  38. Hi….

    “An internal error has occurred: Win32 API error (unknown error – - FormatMessageW failed) when calling HttpSendRequest from private_AgHttpClient_post_L”

    I know you posted that this was an Adobe error with images greater than 1.4mb. However, I get the error trying to login.

    I am trying to log in to Gallery1, which I am not sure works, but do not think (???) it would case this error.

    Thanks…John

    jrsforums said this on March 23rd, 2008 at 01:05

  39. Ooops….I was using an incorrect url. I am now getting a message about “….making sure the remote module is enabled…” which I assume is a G2 interface you are looking for.

    If this is the case, would it be possible for you to look into adding support for G1….which, of course, works OK with ‘Gallery Remote’

    Thanks, again, John

    jrsforums said this on March 23rd, 2008 at 01:26

  40. I now have the same error as Paul and John Ernest. I can define my server, login, it shows the albums, I can create new albums, but export will give the error “An internal error occurred: postMultipart: chunk must contain either value or FilePath”.

    SwitchBL8 said this on March 23rd, 2008 at 16:29

  41. Hi,
    I do like the script alot and would really like to get it working!
    I have installed and logged into the remote gallery but when i upload it fails to put the picture there. It has put the EXIF data but not the picture….
    Any ideas?

    Culture said this on March 24th, 2008 at 20:05

  42. @ Culture
    It might be Imagemajic settings .. try GD.

    jphilbert said this on April 3rd, 2008 at 17:35

  43. This is a feature I would like to see… is it possible for there to be a setting on the plugin so that it remmbers the last login and album that you used before. So if I dont have to click on login all the time if all I want to do is upload to the same album as I did before.

    jphilbert said this on April 3rd, 2008 at 17:35

  44. [...] 4. Export per Gallery, script per creare una galleria fotografica sul proprio sito (thanks to moritzpost) [...]

    Plugin Photoshop Lightroom | Maxfear.it - Not Just A Website said this on July 11th, 2008 at 16:03

  45. hi,

    great work, thanks

    can i use this plugin with lightroom 2?

    stephan said this on August 3rd, 2008 at 21:22

  46. Yes. It does work. I got some glitches though which might require some tuning. But in general it works.

    Moritz Post said this on August 3rd, 2008 at 21:26

  47. i have tested, but it doesnt work

    please tell me, how i must configure/ install plugin

    stephan said this on August 3rd, 2008 at 21:58

  48. In the Plugin Manger (bottom left of export dialog) one is able to enable/disable and to restart the plugin. After playing around with these things a few times it worked all of a sudden. But this is not really a reliable mechanism. A more robust upgrade to the plugin should be made.

    Moritz Post said this on August 4th, 2008 at 12:17

  49. ok, thanks

    i get one error:

    **** Error 1

    Beim Öffnen des Export-Dialogfelds ist ein interner Fehler im Zusatzmodul aufgetreten.
    GalleryUploadExportDialogSections.lua:38: attempt to index field ‘?’ (a nil value)

    stephan said this on August 4th, 2008 at 15:10

  50. Hi

    Superb plugin – used for long time with LR1.X and LR2beta
    Seems Adobe changed something in the final LR2 thou…
    Now it’s not working at all – any plans for update?

    Patrick said this on August 4th, 2008 at 20:21

  51. Yes, there are plans to update the plugin to be fully compatible with LR2. It is pretty close to be functional, as it has worked for me with LR2 once. But i can’t reproduce what i did so the project will release an updated version.

    Moritz Post said this on August 4th, 2008 at 22:48

  52. This is super!

    Any chance of getting an e-mail or something when working?

    /patrick

    Patrick said this on August 4th, 2008 at 23:31

  53. Nope *g*

    Maybe you can rss bookmark/subscribe to the download page of the sf.net project or something.

    Moritz Post said this on August 4th, 2008 at 23:32

  54. I’ll find a way :)

    thanks anyway, and THANKS for a extremly useful plugin!

    Patrick said this on August 4th, 2008 at 23:35

  55. From my research there is a quick way to bringt the plugin back to work by simply commenting out line 38 in the file GalleryUploadExportDialogSections.lua. Comment out by adding two “-” (without the “) in the first column. This line is there to manage the synopsis of the gallery section (the text you see when a section is collapsed).

    Until i will be able to bring the feature back to life and release a new version i hope this helps. Let me know if any other problems arise.

    Thanks

    Moritz Post said this on August 11th, 2008 at 22:57

  56. Thanks for a great plug-in!

    I’m using LR 2.0 and Gallery 2.1 (from Debian 4.0), and I ran into the “postMultipart: chunk must contain either value or filePath” problem. Based on some experimentation, it seems that it is caused by an older Gallery2 version that doesn’t yet use the authorization token in the http post request. To circumvent this, I added a simple check to add the token into the request only if the server has provided it. However, I have only tested it with G2.1 (i.e. without the auth token), but hopefully it works also with a version that uses the token.

    As far as I know, the plug-in didn’t support exporting the LR title or caption fields, so I added support for them (translated to Gallery’s caption and description respectively). This feature only works with LR 2.0, but I didn’t bump up the minimum SDK version, so one will probably run into run-time problems if trying to use the plug-in with older LR versions.

    I tried to submit the hacked plug-in to Sourceforge as a patch, but I wasn’t able to add an attachment for some reason. Thus the whole plug-in is not available anywhere at this time, but I submitted the patch (output of diff –rupN) as a comment to the entry called “Gallery 2.1, LR title and caption support” in the project’s patch tracker at Sourceforge. (To apply the patch to a vanilla 0.1.2, just copy-paste the contents to a file (e.g. patch.txt) in the plug-in’s directory and run “patch –p0 < patch.txt”.)

    BR,

    Hannu said this on August 24th, 2008 at 16:24

  57. Hi,
    I can login to gallery 2.2, list all albums.
    At the end I get error “file failed to upload correctly”
    Any clues where I can start looking for error??
    Done with Lightroom 1.4

    Misch said this on August 25th, 2008 at 10:09

  58. Hi,
    I found that by adding a –include(“javascript_login.php”);–at end of main.php gives the problem.
    Inserting it at start of main.php solves lr to gall. problem, but all CSS are not shown anymore.
    Without script all works fine, and have to say this plugin is one of the finest and most useful available.

    Cheers

    Misch

    Misch said this on August 25th, 2008 at 16:30

  59. Hi,

    I got the plugin to work in LR2 by commenting out line 38 as described earlier. However I’m not able to use non ascii character in album name when creating new albums through the plugin. This worked in LR1.3. Is this something that anyone alse has been dealing with?

    but what a great plugin.

    Kron

    Kron said this on September 27th, 2008 at 03:29

  60. Hi dear

    firstly fantastic plugin ! but after some uploads I get now the following message

    The plug-in had an internal error while opening the Export dialog.
    GalleryUploadExportDialogSections.lua:39: attempt to index field ‘?’ (a nil value)

    can you help me please :´-( It would just be beautiful if this would work again…I also tried to re install the plug in but nothing did help

    thx for your support

    Reto said this on October 16th, 2008 at 22:10

  61. Plugin is working fantastic, and has been flawless for a few months in LR2.

    I just have one question – is it possible to change the DPI settings of the upload? I can resize by DPI and drop the quality down, but the DPI is set to 240.

    George said this on October 27th, 2008 at 04:23

  62. **Meant to say I can resize by Pixel, not by DPI as well.

    George said this on October 27th, 2008 at 04:24

  63. I’m getting the same error as Reto having upgraded lightroom to the new 2.1 version.

    gary said this on October 29th, 2008 at 11:13

  64. getting same error as reto and gary

    david said this on November 2nd, 2008 at 16:52

  65. We have just released a new version 0.1.3 which should solve several of the issues you people have mentioned. Please feel free to try it out. :)

    https://sourceforge.net/projects/lr-to-gallery/

    Moritz Post said this on November 9th, 2008 at 14:27

  66. I get the same “File failed to upload” message but I did not understand the response of what to correct. can anyone give explain it for the internet-challenged? I’m using 0.1.3

    Nick Peluffo said this on November 14th, 2008 at 17:30

  67. Sorry, to add to previous message:

    I am using the latest version of lightroom and I am able to upload pictures through the webserver, in case this helps.

    Thanks!

    Nick Peluffo said this on November 14th, 2008 at 17:34

  68. Sorry again, It was my mistake. I was uploading files that were a tad large. I downsized and it worked like a charm.

    Excellent plugin despite my ineptitude! Perhaps a better error message (something that includes the word idiot) would help people like me.

    Thanks again…

    Nick Peluffo said this on November 14th, 2008 at 22:59

  69. Hi Nick
    glad your problems were solved. In fact i think the problem originates from the max upload size allowed by php. you should check your php.ini what the max_upload_size (not sure if that is the correct var name) is set to.

    Moritz Post said this on November 23rd, 2008 at 17:25

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    klein-gedruckt.de » Lightroom: Plugins (updated) said this on January 11th, 2009 at 22:46

  71. I have problems with accented characters, which seems to be in ISO in one place and UTF8 in the other..
    A text in Lightroom 2.4 like this:
    “Peter och Elliot!
(undras om Peter också har blöjan på)”
    will be inserted in Gallery2 like this:
    “Peter och Elliot!
(undras om Peter ocksÃ¥ har blöjan pÃ¥)”

    This goes for any text, regardless if it’s keywords, descriiption or other..

    Patrick said this on July 13th, 2009 at 23:39

  72. Hi Patrick. Thanks for pointing this out. We will try to find a solution here.

    Moritz Post said this on July 14th, 2009 at 16:14

  73. Great Plug-In! If you want to use it with https, you just need to change line 73 in GalleryREmoteProtocol.lua (v0.1.3) from:

    if string.sub(server, 1, 7) ~= ‘http://’ then

    to

    if (string.sub(server, 1, 7) ~= ‘http://’) and (string.sub(server, 1, 8) ~= ‘https://’) then

    From there, refer to your secure gallery site with https URL, where http remains default if protocol is omitted.

    Gernot Fuchs said this on October 27th, 2009 at 21:40

  74. That is a good hint. https support should be added in future versions. I am looking forward to the new publishing features in lightroom3 that should also add some more flexibility. Maybe in conjunction with gallery3? Does anybody know how external tools are supposed to access the g3?

    Moritz Post said this on October 31st, 2009 at 16:20

  75. You plugin works wonderfully with Gallery 2 and Lightroom 2. Thank you so much!!!

    Nik said this on February 4th, 2010 at 05:02

  76. I am not having much success with the LR plugin. I do not see the export to Gallery availability anywhere. I am running LR 2.6. I do see the plugin under the Plugin Manager. I just can’t get it to run. Any thoughts or suggestions?

    todd said this on February 21st, 2010 at 04:00

  77. I was able to get the plugin to work only after rebooting my computer. Like the plugin. Thanks

    todd said this on February 21st, 2010 at 18:04

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