Yesterday morning, I was hit by an idea. You see, the current beta of Windows Live Photo Gallery includes support for publishing plugins, so you can quickly and easily upload your pics to, say, Flickr, with metadata intact, simply by selecting the pictures and making a couple mouse clicks. So why not do the same for Drupal?

Well, that’s what I’ve begun to work on. I want to keep 3rd party modules to a minimum, so it would only rely on Drupal’s included BlogAPI module and on the 3rd party Image module pack. So far, the project has nothing but a class that throws NotImplementedException at everything, and a reference to XML-RPC.Net which I’ll be using for accessing Drupal.

I’d love to hear ideas on what approach would be best for creating Image nodes via Drupal’s XML-RPC and BlogAPI facilities, and offers of support on the project would be great, too. If you’re interested, let me know! (Also, are there any changes needed, server-side, to make this work? I’d like to know about those too, so I can pass on patches to Rob Loach and walkah.)

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