Send Selfie to Flickr or Photobucket

[in_a_days]

I think this module is fun:

https://github.com/alexyak/camera

But e-mailing the selfie image seems kind of clunky. I think it would be great if the “Selfie” image can be automatically (or optionally) uploaded to my account on an online image hosting service.

I can handle a lot of the simple changes to the code. I’m comfortable modifying the socketNotificaiton send and receives, and I think I know what I need to carve out of the original module. But I do not know how to write the script that will communicate with the image hosting servers. Any help will be greatly appreciated!

[alexyak]

You will need to communicate via the API’s that these services provide. For example flickr has this:

https://www.flickr.com/services/api/upload.api.html

[morozgrafix]

@alexyak this flickr-upload npm package https://www.npmjs.com/package/flickr-upload can be utilized for that functionality. (Heh, I just realized it was written by a friend of mine)

[Mykle1]

@alexyak @morozgrafix

Hi,

I have camera installed (and dependencies) working on my MM. The only problem I have is that it doesn’t email the picture. I’m sure I’ve made a mistake somewhere. I was hoping you might help me.

{
			module: 'camera',
    			position: 'top_right',
    			config: {
			selfieInterval: 3,  // Time interval in seconds before the photo will be taken.
        		emailConfig: {
            		service: 'iCloud', // Email provider to use to send email with a photo.
            		auth: {
                	user: 'xxxxxxxx@icloud.com', // Your email account
                	pass: 'xxxxxxxxxx'        // Your password for email account
            	}
        	}
		}
		},

Does it use the same email account to send To: and From: ? If not, how/where do I tell the module the address to send the picture to? Also, can I change the size of the picture being taken from 640x480 to 320x240?

Many thanks ahead of time.