pwad

I'm not very fond of services like picasa, but some of my friends use that to share pictures with me. Unfortunately, retrieving pictures from a friend's picasa web album is a pain. I have tried to find how to do that and usually the tips I found were not so great and softwares were outdated/not maintained anymore.

Being a software developer, I decided to write a small software to do that, so I created "pwad" (aka Picasa Web Album Downloader). Yes, I know, I'm bad at finding names.

You just have to copy the link provided in the picasa email you receive when a friend shares an album with you, paste it in pwad and click on the download button.

It's open source (Apache License 2.0), it's written in Java, so you need Java (at least version 6) installed on your computer. I haven't packaged the application with an installer yet, double-clicking on it should be enough to launch it, but first you have to download it from: http://pwad.desgrange.net/wiki/download (current version is 0.3).

If you find this application useful, bugged, etc. you can leave feedback and comments on this post.

UPDATE: pwad has moved to GitHub http://github.com/ldesgrange/pwad.