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SmugMug

Syncs your photo galleries with client delivery pipelines, automates album organization based on metadata, and manages public sharing links for your photography business.

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Why use Ceven?

  1. AI native SmugMug integration

    • Describe the outcome and Ceven picks the right SmugMug calls, fills the parameters, and checks the result.
    • Structured, agent friendly tool schemas so each call runs reliably instead of by guesswork.
    • Rich coverage for reading, writing, and querying your SmugMug data, across all 25 of its actions.

  2. Managed auth

    • Built in OAuth with automatic token refresh and rotation.
    • One place to manage, scope, and revoke SmugMug access.
    • Per user and per environment credentials instead of shared keys.

  3. Agent optimized design

    • Actions are tuned from real success and error rates so reliability climbs over time.
    • Full execution logs so you always know what ran in SmugMug, when, and on whose behalf.
    • The agent pauses and asks when SmugMug is unclear instead of plowing ahead.

  4. Enterprise grade security

    • Fine grained access so you control which agents and people can reach SmugMug.
    • Least privilege by default, read scopes first and only the writes a workflow needs.
    • A full audit trail of every SmugMug action to support review and sign off.

Supported tools

Every action Ceven's agents can run on SmugMug, and when to use it.

Get folder details
Use this to pull creation dates, node IDs, and metadata for a specific folder.
Get node details
Pull the URI, name, and ID for any specific album, folder, or page.
Get user profile
Retrieve public profile information for a SmugMug user to verify account status.
List albums in folder
Pull a paginated list of all albums stored within a specific folder.
List child nodes
Retrieve all nested albums or folders under a parent node.
Create album
Use this to start a new gallery for a client or a specific project.
Update node name
Rename a folder or album to match a client project code or date.
Set node privacy
Change an album from public to private or add password protection.
Search nodes
Query for specific albums or folders by name or keyword.
Delete node
Remove an empty folder or a deprecated album from the account.
Get image list
Pull all images within a specific album for auditing or syncing.
Move node
Reorganize your portfolio by moving an album into a different parent folder.

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Frequently asked questions

Ceven uses paginated requests to ensure that large galleries do not time out or crash the workflow. When the agent calls a list images or list albums function, it processes the data in chunks. This means if you have ten thousand photos in a single node, Ceven will walk through the pages of results sequentially. You will see the agent progress through these pages in the execution log. This approach prevents memory overflows and ensures that every single asset is accounted for when syncing to a downstream database or CRM.
Yes. The agent can access the node management tools to toggle between public, private, and password protected states. You can build a workflow where a gallery remains private until a payment is confirmed in Stripe, at which point Ceven automatically updates the SmugMug node privacy to public and emails the link to the client. This creates a seamless payment and delivery pipeline without any manual intervention from the photographer.
Ceven is built specifically on the SmugMug API v2. This allows the agent to interact with the most current node based architecture of the platform. By using v2, the agent can precisely target folders, albums, and individual images using their unique node IDs. This ensures that updates to gallery names or privacy settings happen instantly and reliably across your entire portfolio without affecting unrelated nodes.
Yes. SmugMug enforces strict API rate limits to ensure platform stability. If a workflow attempts to update hundreds of albums in a very short window, SmugMug may return a 429 too many requests error. Ceven handles this by implementing an automatic exponential backoff strategy. The agent will pause for a few seconds and then retry the request. For extremely large migrations, we recommend scheduling the workflow to run in smaller batches over several hours.
Ceven manages the organization and metadata of your photos but it does not act as a primary file uploader for raw binaries. You should upload your images via the SmugMug desktop uploader or mobile app to ensure full resolution and metadata preservation. Once the files are on the platform, Ceven takes over to organize them into folders, rename the albums, set the privacy levels, and handle the distribution of links to your clients.
Absolutely. You can create a workflow that recursively lists all child nodes and folders in your account. Ceven can then write this hierarchy into a CSV file or a Notion database. This provides you with a searchable index of every album and folder you own, including the unique node IDs and creation dates. If you ever need to reorganize your account, you have a perfect map of where everything was located.
The agent uses a combination of search and filter actions. It typically starts by searching for a node name that matches the client name or project code from your CRM. Once it finds a potential match, it verifies the node type to ensure it is an album and not a folder. If multiple matches exist, the agent can cross reference the creation date with the project start date to ensure it is interacting with the correct version of the gallery.
Ceven uses secure OAuth tokens to interact with the SmugMug API. We never store your SmugMug password. During the connection process, you are redirected to SmugMug to authorize the specific permissions Ceven needs. These tokens are encrypted at rest. You can revoke access at any time through your SmugMug account settings, which immediately kills the token and prevents the agent from making further calls to your galleries.

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