I have a cool idea, instead of individually dragging and dropping pictures, if you highlight a group of pics they get uploaded into your blank templates however you choose.
example you have 100 pictures for 100 templates (1 for each)… just drag the folder of pics or highlight pics into your group of templates and they are placed individually into folders. 100 pics could go automatically into 100 blank templates… maybe you have 200 pics for 100 templates and you want 2 to go into each, you could select you want 2 for each template. 300 pics for 100 auctions… select you want 3 each template.
this would save a ton of time instead of dragging and dropping each pic. you could use this fuction, upload pics first and build your listings from there. right now i do titles first then drag and drop pics… this way i could upload all the pics with 1 shot and add titles after. would save a lot of time
i guess this would not work if you have a folder where some listings have 1 pic and some have 3 but if you had a folder of templates where each template requires the same number of pics this is a great idea.
would basically add pics in the order they are in your photo library into your templates.
How would GS determine which picture went with which template? Ebay also doesn’t allow duplicate titles so you would have to make 100 titles up first each one different and then GS would have to correctly place a photo to each of the 100 titles. Personally no 2 of my listings have the same number of photos. Some have 4, some with 10, and some 15 or more depending on the item.
It depends on what you sell. Books, postcards, photos, … always have the same number of photos. What @miamiwax was saying, if I correctly understood, is GS automatically generating a bunch of new listings with empty title and automatically adding one/two/three photos in each new listings from a folder, in the same order as photos included in that folder. That would be genial, because this is exactly what I manually do, loosing a huge part of employees’ time (and money). Anyway you have to fill title one by one, at least GS won’t develop any AI solution! Each item is different that any other.
yes i was saying that if you don’t have a consistent amount of photos per template then it would not work but if you always have a set number this would be ideal.
would drag highligted pics (or folder of pics) into a group of templates that have no pics. in the order the pics are arranged in photo folder, gs would enter the pics into the templates, top to bottom the same way skus are generated
if you have 1 pic per ebay listing you should also have 1 pic in your photo folder per for each listing. so with 1 click you can now have all the pics uploaded into your templates and then you can work on doing the titles and adding any details from there… instead of dragging and dropping each pic to each template.
I think this should be possible already via Automator and/or Apple Script. Can you send me a fraction (about 20 folders/images are enough) of such a folder structure (maybe of-list in a private message)? I will try to come up with a solution via the mentioned tools above.
Or dozen of thousands postcard and photographs! @Paul , my folder structure is very easy. A unique scanner folder containing all images named like image00001, image00002, image00003, … Let me know if you need anything else. I am not expert at all of Automator and/or Apple Script, but I will do anything to come up with such a feature!!
I looked at this, thinking it would be easy to do with a couple of AppleScript files. It turned, we needed to patch GarageSale to cope with tightened macOS sandbox restrictions.
It lets you pick a folder, and every JPEG image at the top level of this folder will get turned into a listing in GarageSale with that image.
Every subfolder in the folder you picked will get turned into a listing, too, having all images it contains added.
Confusingly, GarageSale might ask you to pick that folder once again, that work around sandbox reading restrictions.
Paste this into Script Editor:
use AppleScript version "2.4" -- Yosemite (10.10) or later
use scripting additions
tell application "Finder"
set theFolder to (choose folder)
set theFiles to (name of every file in theFolder)
try
set theFolders to (name of every folder in theFolder)
on error
display alert "No folders were found in the selected folder"
error number -128
end try
end tell
set theFolderPath to theFolder as string
repeat with theFile in theFiles
if the theFile ends with ".jpeg" or theFile ends with ".jpg" then
set fileAlias to (theFolderPath & theFile) as alias
createListing(theFile as string, {fileAlias})
end if
end repeat
repeat with aFolder in theFolders
set folderAlias to (theFolderPath & aFolder) as alias
set imageFileAliases to {}
tell application "Finder"
set imageFiles to (name of every file in folderAlias)
repeat with imageFileName in imageFiles
set imageAlias to ((folderAlias as string) & imageFileName) as alias
set imageFileAliases to imageFileAliases & imageAlias
end repeat
end tell
createListing(aFolder as string, imageFileAliases)
end repeat
on createListing(listingName, images)
tell application "GarageSale"
set theListing to make ebay listing
tell theListing
set title to listingName
repeat with theImageFile in images
if (the theImageFile as string) ends with ".jpeg" or (the theImageFile as string) ends with ".jpg" then
set imagePath to POSIX path of theImageFile
set theImage to make listing image file imagePath
end if
end repeat
end tell
end tell
end createListing
Hi Ilja,
I just tried it here and yes, it worked! This is a very nice step. Now, let me explain you some situations that I usually meet:
let’s say I have 10 photos into the same folder and I want GS to add 2 photos into each listing. So GS should create 5 listings instead of 10 with photos 1+2, 3+4, 5+6 and so on. How is that possibile? Creating sub folder with thousands photos will waste the time I saved with this new feature.
second situation, I need GS to pick the first image from one folder and second and third images to another folder. So each listing contains 3 images, Image A from folder 1 and images B and C (subsequently) from folder 2. Is this something possible?
Then, I noticed that GS uses image’s title as listing’s title. This sounds to be something to invest on… is it somehow possible to use image’s title as SKU instead of title?
Last, I noticed that GS creates new listings with a design automatically applied. I need to create new listings without any design. How can I disable it into the apple script? And without the “lorem ipsum” text? If I bulk select new listings and mark “do not use design”, the “lorem ipsum” text stays there!
Sorry but I am not able to work on apple script. But I would be happy to hire someone to do it for me
Hi @kristian, thank you as always for your help!
I gave it a try. Concerning the template matter, it partially worked (still keep image setting differently). Anyway I found a quicker and easier workaround. I keep a “master” template, then I simply copy and past components in bulk to new listings. In a second it is done.
Concerning the SKU matter, it is a good solution but I agree that the .jpeg at the end is a bit ugly and it might give me some troubles. To avoid it, I think I will keep on automatically generating SKUs, that’s not a waste of time. But most of all, now I really need to find a way to let apple script add two consecutive images into the same new listings. This would change my woking life! Have you got any idea about it?
I tweaked the AppleScript, so it now adds a pair of two images to each listing:
use AppleScript version "2.4" -- Yosemite (10.10) or later
use scripting additions
tell application "Finder"
set theFolder to (choose folder)
set theFiles to (name of every file in theFolder)
try
set theFolders to (name of every folder in theFolder)
on error
display alert "No folders were found in the selected folder"
error number -128
end try
end tell
set theFolderPath to theFolder as string
repeat while the (count of theFiles) is not 0
set listingName to the first item of theFiles
set imagesForThisListing to {}
set {theFiles, imagesForThisListing} to addFirstImageFromFilesToList(theFiles, imagesForThisListing, theFolderPath)
set {theFiles, imagesForThisListing} to addFirstImageFromFilesToList(theFiles, imagesForThisListing, theFolderPath)
if the (count of imagesForThisListing) is not 0 then
createListing(listingName, imagesForThisListing)
end if
end repeat
repeat with aFolder in theFolders
set folderAlias to (theFolderPath & aFolder) as alias
set imageFileAliases to {}
tell application "Finder"
set imageFiles to (name of every file in folderAlias)
repeat with imageFileName in imageFiles
set imageAlias to ((folderAlias as string) & imageFileName) as alias
set imageFileAliases to imageFileAliases & imageAlias
end repeat
end tell
createListing(aFolder as string, imageFileAliases)
end repeat
on createListing(listingName, images)
tell application "GarageSale"
set theListing to make ebay listing
tell theListing
set title to listingName
repeat with theImageFile in images
if (the theImageFile as string) ends with ".jpeg" or (the theImageFile as string) ends with ".jpg" then
set imagePath to POSIX path of theImageFile
set theImage to make listing image file imagePath
end if
end repeat
end tell
end tell
end createListing
on addFirstImageFromFilesToList(inFiles, outImages, inFolderPath)
if the (count of inFiles) is 0 then
return {inFiles, outImages}
end if
set theFile to first item of inFiles
if the theFile ends with ".jpeg" or theFile ends with ".jpg" then
set fileAlias to (inFolderPath & theFile) as alias
set outImages to outImages & fileAlias
end if
if (count of inFiles) is 1 then
set inFiles to {}
else
set inFiles to items 2 thru -1 of inFiles
end if
return {inFiles, outImages}
end addFirstImageFromFilesToList
Super @ilja ! I will try it asap. Just to know, is there anything to change in that code to let GS add 3, 4 or 5 photos? Is there just a single word or code to change or is it more complicated to do?
I tweaked the script once again. Look for repeat 2 times and change it to the number of images you want for each listing.
use AppleScript version "2.4" -- Yosemite (10.10) or later
use scripting additions
tell application "Finder"
set theFolder to (choose folder)
set theFiles to (name of every file in theFolder)
try
set theFolders to (name of every folder in theFolder)
on error
display alert "No folders were found in the selected folder"
error number -128
end try
end tell
set theFolderPath to theFolder as string
repeat while the (count of theFiles) is not 0
set listingName to the first item of theFiles
set imagesForThisListing to {}
repeat 2 times
set {theFiles, imagesForThisListing} to addFirstImageFromFilesToList(theFiles, imagesForThisListing, theFolderPath)
end repeat
if the (count of imagesForThisListing) is not 0 then
createListing(listingName, imagesForThisListing)
end if
end repeat
repeat with aFolder in theFolders
set folderAlias to (theFolderPath & aFolder) as alias
set imageFileAliases to {}
tell application "Finder"
set imageFiles to (name of every file in folderAlias)
repeat with imageFileName in imageFiles
set imageAlias to ((folderAlias as string) & imageFileName) as alias
set imageFileAliases to imageFileAliases & imageAlias
end repeat
end tell
createListing(aFolder as string, imageFileAliases)
end repeat
on createListing(listingName, images)
tell application "GarageSale"
set theListing to make ebay listing
tell theListing
set title to listingName
repeat with theImageFile in images
if (the theImageFile as string) ends with ".jpeg" or (the theImageFile as string) ends with ".jpg" then
set imagePath to POSIX path of theImageFile
set theImage to make listing image file imagePath
end if
end repeat
end tell
end tell
end createListing
on addFirstImageFromFilesToList(inFiles, outImages, inFolderPath)
if the (count of inFiles) is 0 then
return {inFiles, outImages}
end if
set theFile to first item of inFiles
if the theFile ends with ".jpeg" or theFile ends with ".jpg" then
set fileAlias to (inFolderPath & theFile) as alias
set outImages to outImages & fileAlias
end if
if (count of inFiles) is 1 then
set inFiles to {}
else
set inFiles to items 2 thru -1 of inFiles
end if
return {inFiles, outImages}
end addFirstImageFromFilesToList
and would bring GS closer to perfection.
