Facebook Aperture Exporter

About

This is a simple exporter plugin for Apple's Aperture. I wasn't happy with the built-in syncing Aperture 3 has, and the existing export plugin for Facebook wouldn't work for me. Plus, that author wasn't returning my emails to try and get it to work. So I wrote my own.

This repository hosts the source code, documentation and is the place to report issues. The downloads are located at Bitbucket

Current Features

• Logging in and out of a Facebook account
• Album creation with privacy and selection (where to upload the photos to)
• High resolution photo uploads to Facebook
• Enabled by uploading large versions to Facebook (choose an export preset that will create 2048 pixels along the largest side)
• Option to use IPTC headline instead of caption as photo title (Issue #9)
• Sparkle updating
• Growl notifications

Known Limitations and Issues

• The export progress information in the Activity panel is pretty much broken. At least you know it is still exporting.
• The caption for a created Facebook album is not set. Still figuring out why that is the case.

Nice Features to Have

• Choose whether to use the Title or Description from each photo to use as the photo's caption on Facebook (currently uses the title).
• Add a tag to all uploaded photos

Usage and Installation

1. You need OS X 10.7 (Lion) to use the latest plugin.
2. Download the plugin from the downloads page.
3. After downloading, put the plugin in the directory ~/Library/Application Support/Aperture/Plug-Ins/Export. If the Plug-Ins and / or Export directories do not exist, create them.
4. If Aperture is running, restart it.
5. Select the versions to export, choose File -> Export -> FacebookExporter...

Screenshot

License

Uses the MIT license.

Authors

• Chris Streeter
• Alex Brand (contributor)
• Some code is taken from Facebook's iOS Library (why don't they have a desktop SDK!)
• Inspiration from the Aperture to Picasa Plugin