Post #980682
2026-04-02 07:09 UTC
@occult Hey, I was just thinking that it might be useful for people if I added a way to easily migrate an existing gallery to ocular so they don't have to start from scratch or re-add all images manually. It's simple for images, as long as they are all in one directory. Captions and tags are a bit trickier though. I am pondering how I would build it. Since you already have your gallery in place, what would you need ocular to be able to parse and easily migrate the text data? A simple text file? Some json structure?
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@occult@vox.ominous.net 2026-04-02 13:49
@rostiger@merveilles.town Mine is all custom, so it’s not going to be applicable to anybody else. I think you need some sort of initialization setup mode that is semi-automated. Essentially, explicit documentation on how to import photos in bulk while saving the state along the way, so you can come back to it and resume the import. Switching galleries like this is going to require manual intervention and time. I need to get around to doing this myself and I was just going to do it one photo at a time.