The
Public
Library
of Chez Luc
Call Number
323.0. LC-4

Title
Batch Downloading

Author
Luke Carter

Category
Professional

While at
Airbnb

Type
Automation

Tags
AppleScript, Airbnb Plus

About
For Airbnb's new Plus product, all listing photos were color corrected according to the Plus photo style guidelines. Airbnb created a media tool to manage all of the photography. To update a photo, it was downloaded, retouched and then replaced.

There was no way to download all of the images from a listing - the download button had to be clicked manually for each photo. Some listings contained up to 80 photos.

The AppleScript I developed takes a set of listing IDs from a spreadsheet and downloads all of the images into folders on the desktop. This can be done while the retoucher is at lunch or in a meeting. When they returned the desired number of listings would be batch downloaded to their desktop.