breeze and uploading to Facebook

[joeyphotobooths]

I have a client that is looking to upload photos from the photo booth "on the fly" to their business facebook page . Is it possible to do this or do the photos have to be uploaded to a personal facebook page?

Thanks in advance.

Joe

[LorneChesal]

I have a client that is looking to upload photos from the photo booth "on the fly" to their business facebook page . Is it possible to do this or do the photos have to be uploaded to a personal facebook page?

Thanks in advance.

Joe

it can be done using a wifi connection, Dropbox and ifttt.com

PM me for the details if you wish.

[jayredliner]

it can be done using a wifi connection, Dropbox and ifttt.com

PM me for the details if you wish.

Lorne, I'd like to know the answer as well. Perhaps you could post it?

Thanks!

[joeyphotobooths]

thanks i pm'ed you. I have no issue getting the photos to a personal facebook page, just tested out the way that chris breeze suggested. but can not get these photos uploaded on the fly to the business facebook page.

cheers

jd

[LorneChesal]

Sorry to have sounded secretive...


it sounds more cumbersome than it is.. but here's how I do it. it seems kinda rube-goldberg-machine-ish, but once set up... it's effortless.


You'll need a dropbox account. The free one is fine as you're only uploading the final JPEGs.

You'll need an account at ifttt.com. Set up the channels for DROPBOX and FACEBOOK PAGES (this allows business pages). That's not the FACEBOOK channel which is personal pages.

You'll need an app to copy files from point A to point B on a schedule. I use Allways Sync, but there others, free and paid.

You also need an Internet connection during the event. I use a USB modem-stick.



On your PC running Breeze set your copying app to copy the contents of your PRINTS folder every minute. The destination folder where the final JPEGs are copied must be inside a folder called PUBLIC which is inside your dropbox folder. (this is because IFTTT only recognizes the PUBLIC folder of your dropbox.) You CAN avoid this step IF you locate your final outputted JPEG file to Dropbox. I do not recommend this, as that place the feeder files there and that will clog up your Dropbox folder, as they will be uploaded as well. No need for this.

That folder of final JPEGs is then synced up to your dropbox every few minutes.

Go to IFTTT and set up those 2 channels. One gets your dropbox credentials, the other your facebook business page credentials.

Now set up a new task. In IFTTT terms, a task has a trigger and an action. The trigger is every time a new JPEG is found in that hot folder, upload it to your facebook page.

The End.

It's now automagic. IFTTT runs every 15 minutes by default. There is no way to hurry this at the moment. You can also trigger it manually, but I don't. I now tell the guest... "wait 15-20 minutes and the image should be there then.

So the path a JPEG follows from Breeze to facebook is...

*created by Breeze and placed in \PRINTS
*Copied by from \PRINTS to DROPBOX\PUBLIC\
*Uploaded by Dropbox to the cloud
*Detected by IFTTT, uploaded to Facebook

You can get more fancy, by adding watermarks, resizing etc. somewhere along the line, but this is the simplest way I know of.


I'd be glad to help you set it up if you need.

[anders]

Hi Lorne

Thanks for the details, very handy going to try this out this weekend

[BrianS]

Well, here is what I did. I went to ifttt and created an account. I created a recipe there that looked at a Facebook folder withing the Dropbox Public folder. IFTTT gave me a "public folder" URL. The recipe shows the following ingredients:

Trigger:
"new photo in your Public folder/Subfolder name

Action:
Photo URL BOX:

{{PHOTOURL}} and then my dropbox supplied link

Message BOX:
{{FilenemeNoExt}}

Album name BOX:
empty

___________

So, I then open my FB page, and the image placeholders are there but no image. just a blank box that says " file not found" any thoughts?

[BrianS]

I now use WappWolf and Hotfolder prints to do this. It works flawlessly!