I've been a Flickr pro user for 4 years, but the pro account costs 24,95$/year and I was looking for something cheaper. Anyway I was thinking that after all, even if I don't renew my account, I can always access to all my pictures.... wrong! If you don't renew your pro Flickr account you can only access to the low resolution version of your own pictures. That's not acceptable for me, so I decided to download all my pictures and upload them somewhere else. Here comes the second disappointment: there is no automatic way to download all your pictures.
I simply had no time to write an application by myself, so I started searching on Google to see if there was something available to do this simple task. At the beginning I only found abandoned tools (closed source, the API was expired ecc...), paid tools, Windows only tools ecc... but finally I found this post http://hivelogic.com/articles/backing-up-flickr/
There is a Python script that automatically downloads all your Flickr pictures getting the highest resolution available, you can download the script from here https://github.com/dan/hivelogic-flickrtouchr
The usage is very simple
mkdir FlickrBackupFolder python flickrtouchr.py FlickrBackupFolder
A browser's window will be opened and you'll be prompted for authorization. After that, all you pictures will be downloaded.
January 5th, 2012 at 8:08 pm
Looks interesting, but I get the following error:
File “flickrtouchr.py”, line 4
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
I’m using:
Xubuntu 11.10
Python 2.7.2+ (default, Oct 4 2011, 20:03:08)
[GCC 4.6.1] on linux2
Any thoughts?
Thank you,
Tom Gosse
January 5th, 2012 at 9:55 pm
I’ve used those programs before but my non-pro account photos do not get downloaded. Are you saying it worked on your non-pro account?
January 5th, 2012 at 9:58 pm
My pro account expires in 10 days, so it was still active when I used the script.
January 5th, 2012 at 11:27 pm
Hi Andrea,
I don’t like also services like that, that don’t give us, the copyrighters, the freedom of doing what we want to do and ask us so much money for so simple things.
Many photographers are using Google Plus, and I recommend it! It’s free and give us the possibility of choosing who can download it! And the best thing is that allow people to download with the best quality!
If you want to add me: http://gplus.to/claudio
Regards,
Claudio Novais.
January 6th, 2012 at 9:53 am
But I thought even non-pro accounts had the option of downloading pictures in hi-res??
Anyway, for future´s sake, keep your pictures in your HD so you won´t have to go through this again