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Image status updates not working?

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notaslave:

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--- Quote from: notaslave on July 27, 2020, 05:39 ---Appreciate for your reply! Do you plan on adding this functionality in the future? Automatically marking files as pending /accepted / rejected? Shouldn't be hard to fetch this info from the API and it would be really useful to know which files require further editing and which are 100% accepted (without the need to manually check and update the status), unless this is this intentional, so that your cloud program has more features? Thanks

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Even with Alamy, after files are accepted, it's smart to go back in, choose super-tags and fill in all the optional infomation - most of that is actually important! (Apologies if you can already do all that in MicrostockSubmitter.)

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Thanks Sue, I should probably do a manual check on all agencies every so often to fill in any agency specific information that might help with SEO etc. As long as I can do it after acceptance, so that I don't have to do it for every photo right away, which would kind of defeat the purpose of the StockSubmitter.

notaslave:

--- Quote from: Niakris on July 27, 2020, 06:57 ---Also, it's not just using some API, we have to actually imitate the real browser and parse the raw pages of the websites to determine the statuses.

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That sounds so backwards and an unnecessary waste of bandwidth and server resources, it's amazing that they don't provide the status info through a simple API call...

I will look into your other suggestion, although if it ever becomes possible to implement straight into the StockSubmitter, do keep this request in mind ;)

Thank you.

Niakris:

--- Quote from: notaslave on July 27, 2020, 08:51 ---That sounds so backwards and an unnecessary waste of bandwidth and server resources, it's amazing that they don't provide the status info through a simple API call...
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Exactly! Very few agencies realize that and have implemented some kind of an API for us.
Even though we represent a solid 10-20% of their contributions inflow.

Implementing this feature purely in StockSubmitter is just plain impossible in the current architecture.
I will of course keep that in mind (in fact, I was keeping that in mind for a long time already) but for now I'd recommend either using Microstock+ directly or in integration with StockSubmitter to achieve that.
M+ would also make uploading and submission more stable and reliable in general as it's performed on our servers and doesn't depend on the end user's connection, software and hardware.

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