Hi all,
Not sure if the question has been asked. Here is my scenario:
I have hundreds of thousands photo in the process of uploading to
Picasa (just paid $5 for 20G last week). Have successfully written a
PHP script to upload images and create albums automatically. But the
biggest problem now is the high failure rate.
About 20%-25% of the images upload failed. The error messages are
"Read timed out after 10 seconds", "Expected response code 200, got
500", or "STORAGE_UNAVAIL". In order to push the speed, I even have
multiple windows uploading the photos into different albums. The more
windows I used (i.e., the more simultaneously uploading), the higher
the failure rate is. Currently, I can upload about 1000 photos in
about 1.5 hour. To me, that is very slow The image size of the photo
is about 200 kb in average.
I want to know if there is any way to reduce the upload failure. What
about:
1. use multiple uplink paths (i.e. using multiple ISPs)?
2. create another picasa account?
3. using Java, instead of Zend?
4. am I asking too much as I have already reached the limit of Picasa?
Any help is appreciated!
Here is the code for uploading the images:
$fd = $gp->newMediaFileSource($file);
$fd->setContentType("image/jpeg");
$photoEntry = $gp->newPhotoEntry();
$photoEntry->setMediaSource($fd);
$photoEntry->setTitle("sometitle");
$photoEntry->setSummary("somesummary");
// add some tags
$keywords = new Zend_Gdata_Media_Extension_MediaKeywords();
$keywords->setText("sometag");
$photoEntry->mediaGroup = new Zend_Gdata_Media_Extension_MediaGroup();
$photoEntry->mediaGroup->keywords = $keywords;
// We insert the photo, and the server returns the entry representing
// that photo after it is uploaded
$insertedEntry = $gp->insertPhotoEntry($photoEntry, $albumQuery-
>getQueryUrl());
$mediaContentArray = $insertedEntry->getMediaGroup()->getContent();
$contentUrl = $mediaContentArray[0]->getUrl();
Thanks
Kenneth
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