Hi everyone,
Recently, a colleague asked for a hand downloading a batch of photos directly from Wildbook. I reached for WildbookExport (WildEx) to handle the bulk download, but ran into a quick blocker: there wasn’t a native build available for Linux, which is my daily driver.
After tweaking the environment, I got it running cleanly on Linux. While testing, I also noticed the original tool expected Excel spreadsheets, whereas current Wildbook exports output in .csv by default. Rather than manually converting files to .xlsx every time, I “patched” the parser so it now directly accepts .csv files out of the box (in addition to standard spreadsheets).
With a bit of packaging help from Claude, I bundled these updates into standalone executables across Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Rather than pushing this upstream via a pull request to the core repository right away, I wanted to keep this as an open community drop.
You can grab the binaries and check the release notes here:
GitHub Release: https://github.com/antonalvarezbc/WildbookExport/releases/tag/v1.0.1
Feel free to test it with your exports and let me know if you run into any quirks or edge cases!