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URLs & licenses on downloaded images
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2006-02-13 20:59:56
Thanks for the feedback Donovan,

My concern is that Automator let's users chain actions
together - so  
my little piece will download and then basically pass them
on to the  
next link - which could do anything with them. They're
effectively  
detached from my main app at that point and I want to try
and make  
sure some link back to the original, and the license,
exists.

-Blake

On Feb 13, 2006, at 12:49 PM, dpeastman wrote:

> Blake,
>
> Here's one idea:
>
> There is a little known (and sadly, little used) EXIF
tag for "unique
> image ID."  After you download the image you
could set the value for
> this EXIF tag to the Flickr photo ID.  This would alter
the image
> file, but not in a way that your users would ever
notice.  Given how
> rarely this tag is assigned, it is unlikely that you
would ever
> overwrite another value (and it wouldn't really matter
if you did).
>
> You would need a library for reading and writing EXIF
data.  I have
> such a library for Python, which may or may not be
useful for you.
>
> Of course, this is only going to be useful if someone
opens the file
> using your app.  If they open the file directly, they
will never see
> (or understand) this data.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Donovan



 
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