Download album from Picasa with Python

gistfile1.txt

import urllib
from xml.dom import minidom


'''
Opens an xml and parse it
Could fetch the xml from Picasa instead of fetching from the disk.
'''
print 'Fetching xml...'
sock = open('xml.xml')
xmldoc = minidom.parse(sock).documentElement
sock.close()
print 'Fetched xml.'

'''Parse the xml'''
print 'Parsing xml...'
dataContainer = []
for entry in xmldoc.getElementsByTagName('media:content'): #media:content is the tag that has the url of the photo
    if entry.hasAttribute('url'):
       '''append the url to a list'''
        dataContainer.append(entry.getAttribute('url'))
print 'xml parsed.'

'''Iterate over the url list downloading the files and printing info'''
i = 1;
for entry in dataContainer:
    print "Downloading %s of %s" %(i, len(dataContainer))
    urllib.urlretrieve(entry, "foto%s.jpg"%i) #foto%s is the name i chose...foto1.jpg, foto2.jpg, etc
    i = i+1