Yahoo! Cool Thing of the Day

So, with the impending shutdown of Y!Photos, folks are starting to panic. It's understandable, and while Y!Photos will be offering you options on how to store your photos going forward (Flickr. Seriously. It rules.) there's no reason that you should be limited to just that or clicking and saving hundreds of photos individually.

Be that as it may, intrepid hacker extraordinarre, Kent Brewster, managed to figure out a way to dump your full sized Y!Photos to your local machine using the existing Yahoo! APIs. For the curious ones, this uses BBAuth to access your photos and then includes the full sized files to a page you can save. It's a bit ugly in that it doesn't preserve file names or a lot of the meta-data associated with your images, but it does grab that stuff in an XML block for later fix-ups.

Personally, I'm kinda sad to see Y!Photos go. I think that it actually addressed the need of an audience that just wanted a simple tool to share photos among friends and family, but I understand that sometimes I can't have peanut butter.

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