Using an exported art list
Yesterday I finally got around to using my little tool for exporting my RedBubble art list to build a quick and dirty site that acts as a simple “front door” into my works here.
Given that I’ve had the domain davep.co.uk hanging around not doing anything useful for a while I’ve placed it over there. At the moment it’s a quick and dirty hack, more of a proof of concept than anything else, I’ll probably expand it into something more at some point in the future.
But, for now, here’s the first version of Photography by Dave Pearson.
Linda Syms
Looks fantastic
dinghysailor1
wow dave you’ve cracked it! – and it works well – clever stuff!
Christina Martin
very cool Dave.
Faizan Qureshi
Awesome work Dave. Really useful!
littleredplanet
great use of that little tool. I’m curious how you pulled in the thumbnail images and urls. Was this a manual addition or did you automate the process via an updated version of your getrbart script?
Dave Pearson
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Thanks all.
The heart of those pages is just a text file that is exactly what is emitted by getrbart. I’ve then done a little bit of php that loads up the text file and generates the HTML for the pages on the fly. The URLs for the thumbnails are “made up” as I go along (I vary the host name for the images based on the numeric ID of the image modulo 4).
To update the content of the site I need only re-export my art list with getrbart (I’ve also got a subsequent script that filters out a handful of images that I don’t want to appear on the site, that’s nothing more than a ‘grep -Ev’ on a list of image IDs).