I have a lot of SmugMug albums and sometimes I have a hard time tracking down in which Category and SubCategory one resides or whether I’ve updated all the albums to use square thumbnails – thus was born smugfind.

A question was asked on a dgrin thread about whether the SmugMug API supported building a tag cloud – it doesn’t. A responder suggested it would take far too long to generate one from the API since you’d have to trawl through every photo. This is indeed true, but you don’t have to do it serially. I consider the batchable interface for pysmug to be it’s selling point and building a tag cloud is the perfect demonstration.

I just released version 0.4 of pysmug and I’m pretty happy with the additional functionality.

While I hammer away at erlsmug and try to figure out why it’s so much slower than pysmug and PycURL, I’m ready to release version 0.4 of pysmug.