CLDownload

Overview

SmugMug is a great place to post pictures so that others can view them online. Personally, I have spent a lot of time organizing and tagging my SmugMug galleries and photos. Sometimes I want to create a video or slideshow, a season ending CD for the team, or load the pictures on my phone or IPAD. For these tasks, I download the SmugMug pictures to my PC for processing. CLDownload is a Windows (.net framework), command line, utility that can be used to download all the pictures from one or more SmugMug galleries to a PC's hard drive. Once on the hard drive, you can create a video, make a CD, copy the pictures to your phone, etc. For a Windows Forms experience click here.

Example

An example download command is illustrated below, where, from a "Command Prompt" window, CLDownload.exe was instructed to download "Large" size pictures, resize and compress them, and save them to an existing folder called "c:\MySmugMugPictures". The albums list was contained in a file called "TestDownloadList.txt". Although the command line syntax seems a bit of a bother at first, it provides a flexible way to control the batch processing. If you are new to the Command Prompt, there is plenty of information on the web.