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Feature Request: Multi-threaded uploader #22

Open haridsv opened 10 years ago

haridsv commented 10 years ago

I just got the uploader to work and I can see the pictures appearing on my Flickr account, so this is great. However, I noticed that it is taking a very long time to upload each picture. Based on my ISP and the time it usually takes with other uploads, this is very unusual, and perhaps a problem with the Flickr service itself. However, it made me wonder if using multiple threads to upload could effectively improve the bandwidth utilization. Perhaps a simple change could be to allow a thread count to be specified and divide the image set among these threads. Is there something from the API side that would make this difficult or impossible?

richq commented 10 years ago

It's a good idea, I might have to see if it's possible. Some things do seem hellishly slow on Flickr's end too - creating the sets takes minutes occasionally, and there you are only uploading a smallish amount of text.

thomascobb commented 10 years ago

It would appear that someone has committed something that looks like this to the old google code version of this...

https://code.google.com/p/folders2flickr/source/detail?r=14

richq commented 10 years ago

Nice. I wasn't expect that. I'll see if I can integrate that change :-)