picasa upload directory of images

#!/bin/bash
# Usage $1 path to folder
 
#functions
 
capitalize_ichar ()         
{                            
 
  string0="$@"               
  firstchar=${string0:0:1}  
  string1=${string0:1}       
  FirstChar=`echo "$firstchar" | tr a-z A-Z`
 
  echo "$FirstChar$string1"  
 
}
 
full_path=$1
album_name=`basename $full_path`
 
### Your google account and password
username=
password=
 
 
cd $full_path
 
 
auth_key=$( curl -s https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin -d Email="$username"@gmail.com -d Passwd="$password" -d accountType=GOOGLE -d source=Google-cURL-Example -d service=lh2 | awk -F\= '/^Auth=/{print $2}' )
 
picasa_default_out="picasa_default.tmp"
picasa_album_addrs="picasa_album_addrs.tmp"
picasa_album_names="picasa_album_names.tmp"
picasa_result="picasa_result.tmp"
picasa_new_album="picasa_new_album.tmp"
picasa_result_upload="picasa_result_upload.tmp"
 
 
curl -s --header "Authorization: GoogleLogin auth=$auth_key" "http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/default" > "$picasa_default_out"
 
idx=1
cat "$picasa_default_out" | tr '>' '\n' | grep "</gphoto:name" | cut -d'<' -f 1 > "$picasa_album_names"
 
 
cap_album_name=`capitalize_ichar $album_name`
 
if grep -q $cap_album_name $picasa_album_names
then
    echo "Album already exists"
else  
    echo "<entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:gphoto='http://schemas.google.com/photos/2007'>" >> album.xml
    echo "<category scheme='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind' term='http://schemas.google.com/photos/2007#album' />" >> album.xml
    echo "<title type='text'>$album_name</title>" >> album.xml
    echo "<summary type='text'></summary>" >> album.xml
    echo "<gphoto:location></gphoto:location>" >> album.xml
    echo "<gphoto:access>public</gphoto:access>" >> album.xml
    echo "<gphoto:commentingEnabled>true</gphoto:commentingEnabled>" >> album.xml
    echo "</entry>" >> album.xml
    curl --silent --request POST --data "@album.xml" --header "Content-Type: application/atom+xml" --header "Authorization: GoogleLogin auth=$auth_key" "http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/$username" > "$picasa_result"
    cat "$picasa_result" | tr '>' '\n' | grep "</gphoto:id" | cut -d'<' -f 1  > "$picasa_new_album" 
    album_addr=$( head -1  "$picasa_new_album" )
    echo "---------------------------"
    echo "Album $album_name added"
    echo "---------------------------"
    num_images=0
    for f in *.JPG
    do
      echo "Processing $f file..."
 
       mime_type=$( file -ib "$f" )
 
      curl -s --request POST --data-binary "@$f" --header "Slug: $f" --header "Content-Type: $mime_type" --header "Authorization: GoogleLogin auth=$auth_key" "http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/$username/albumid/$album_addr" >> "$picasa_result_upload"
      echo "Uploaded $f file..."
      num_images=`expr $num_images + 1`;
    done
    echo "---------------------------"
    echo "Uploaded $num_images file/s"
    echo "---------------------------"
 
fi
 
#tidy up
files=$(ls $full_path/*.tm 2> /dev/null | wc -l)
if [ $files ]
then
  rm *.tmp
fi
if [ -f album.xml ]
then
  rm album.xml
fi