Introduction
Today, a friend wanted to download all photos of a photograph he likes a lot on Flickr.. but that's a long and a boring task.. especially when the user has many photos.
So, I just asking myself how I can automate this task.. and Python is the answer!
Prerequisite
- Python and Pip (the higher is better!)
- venv : optional, but I advise you to use it.
Let's jump into the code!
- At the root of your working directory run the following command to install
flickr_apias a dependency
pip install flickr_api
- Next you have to create an account on Flickr and log you in to get your
api_keyand yourapi_secretwith the following link - Then use this code and replace
API_KEY,API_SECRETandUSER_NAMEwith your credentials 🙂
import os
import flickr_api
flickr_api.set_keys(api_key = 'API_KEY', api_secret = 'API_SECRET')
os.makedirs(os.path.join(os.getcwd(), "photos"), exist_ok=True)
user = flickr_api.Person.findByUserName("USER_NAME")
pages_nb = user.getPublicPhotos().info.pages
total = user.getPublicPhotos().info.total
current = 0
for page_nb in range(1, pages_nb+1):
for index, photo in enumerate(user.getPublicPhotos(page=page_nb)):
sizes = photo.getSizes()
biggest_size = list(sizes.keys())[-1]
filename = photo.title.replace("/", "-") + "_" + photo.id
current += 1
try:
print(f"{current}/{total}", filename)
photo.save(os.path.join(os.getcwd(), "photos", filename), size_label = biggest_size)
except Exception as e:
print(e)
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