Embedded Media Import: Import Playlists & Photosets

Please note that Embedded Media Import has been deprecated in Drupal 6.x in favor of integration with FeedAPI and the FeedAPI Element Mapper. Please see the following handbook page for instructions: http://drupal.org/node/246265

Embedded Media Field now ships with Embedded Media Import, for importing photosets, playlists, and the like. If you install that module, admins will have the ability to import photosets from Flickr as individual nodes. Just make sure the 'Allow import' checkbox on the content type (which must have a field defined with Embedded Media Field) is checked, proper permissions are given to editors, and look at the settings on the new tab at /admin/content/emfield/import.

When importing (at the new menu item: emimport -- 'Import Media Sets'), select the type you want to import content into. On the next page, paste the URL of the photoset you wish to import, click 'Parse', and you will then see thumbnails of all the items from that set. Uncheck any you wish, override titles/body/tags you wish, and click 'Import'. In a bit (which might take some time, depending on the size of the set), you will have some new nodes, complete with descriptions, titles, and tags (if you set a freetag vocabulary on the settings page).

Currently, the module only supports Flickr, but I hope to support other providers in the future. (YouTube will probably be next.) I've only stress tested it to 100 nodes, so I'd love any reports for anyone importing larger photosets. (Flickr allows up to 500 in a photoset.)

Future enhancements: support for more providers (definitely), allow descriptions to be put into something besides node->body (probably), multiple pages for import (to break up large sets) (slightly possibly). It's currently only in the 5.x version -- not sure I'll do 4.7, since I'm pretty sure it would take more work (with CCK differences between 4.7 & 5).