I'm a software developer and interested in using lightroom to develop raw images, but would like to use LR programatically, as opposed to working via the LR user-interface. I understand there's no command line interface -- is there any other way to utilitze LR from other programs?  I see there's an SDK, but it seems to just be for developing plug-ins, which wouldn't seem to help.

Thanks for the info.

Steve

Have you tried writing a Photoshop Plugin that works with Adobe Camera RAW?  The underlying RAW-engine is basically the same between Camera RAW and Lightroom so depending on what you want to do you would probably get further going that route. 

LR and Photoshop are about a human adjusting or at least approving the settings based on what they see on screen, which is the opposite of what you're trying to achieve, it sounds.

If you're interest is merely to create JPGs from RAW files without any human ever being involved, then it is a requirement that Adobe products be used?  There are other RAW conversion engines that might lend themselves to programming, such as DCRAW which I believe is open source.

Would the publish feature do it for you? - trigger being that you have to push the publish button... hot folder being publish collections......

I think this may be a case where a plugin could come to the rescue.

I wouldn't know what to do just yet because I don't really understand the requirements.

But some brainstorming:

- Make a plugin with a daemon that polls a folder or collection and automatically initiates an export when new or changed photos present themselves.

Well, kind-of a short brainstorm but - your turn.

PS - This post probably should have been targeted at the original poster - You need to give us a better idea of what you are trying to accomplish - I mean, no: Lr does not have command line support, but yes: there are all kinds of things you can do with plugins. So what exactly do you want, and why?

Rob

Thats exactly what I was thinking.

I just found this site.

www.ps-scripts.com