Simple Python3 script to download all your photos from your Flickr profile

flickr_download.py

"""Flickr photo downloader.

Get credentials for the Flickr API from 
https://github.com/alexis-mignon/python-flickr-api/wiki/Flickr-API-Keys-and-Authentication

# a = flickr_api.auth.AuthHandler()
# perms = "read" # set the required permissions
# url = a.get_authorization_url(perms)

# <rsp stat="ok">
# <method>flickr.test.echo</method>
# <api_key>**SECRET**</api_key>
# <oauth_token>**SECRET**</oauth_token>
# <oauth_verifier>**SECRET**</oauth_verifier>
# </rsp>

"""

from pathlib import Path
import json

import flickr_api

auth_handler = flickr_api.auth.AuthHandler(
    key='**SECRET**',
    secret='**SECRET**',
    access_token_key="**SECRET**",
    access_token_secret="**SECRET**")

flickr_api.set_auth_handler(auth_handler)


def get_location(p):
    """Retrieve location info from Photo object"""

    try:
        d = p.getLocation().__dict__
        keys = [
            'region', 'neighbourhood', 'latitude', 'longitude', 'accuracy',
            'country', 'locality', 'county'
        ]
        return {key: d[key] for key in keys}
    except Exception as err:
        # print(err)
        return None


def get_info(p):
    """Retrieve photo info from Photo object"""

    info = p.getInfo()

    return {
        'id': info.get('id', None),
        'description': info.get('description', None),
        'dateuploaded': info.get('dateuploaded', None),
        'taken': info.get('taken', None),
        'url': p.getPhotoUrl()
    }


def get_exif(p):
    """Retrieve EXIF info from Photo object"""

    result = []

    exif = p.getExif()

    for e in exif:
        result.append({'tag': e.tag, 'raw': e.raw})

    return result


user = flickr_api.test.login()
photos = user.getPhotos()

# get an overview of all attributes relevant for the download
# print([m for m in dir(photos[0]) if m.startswith("get")])

counter = 0
errors = []

for p in flickr_api.Walker(user.getPhotos):

    try:
        d = get_info(p)

        Path("photos").mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)

        fp_meta = Path("photos", "{}-{}.json".format(d['dateuploaded'], d['id']))
        if not fp_meta.exists():
            d['location'] = get_location(p)
            d['exif'] = get_exif(p)
            with open(str(fp_meta), 'w') as outfile:
                json.dump(d, outfile)

        fp_photo = Path("photos", "{}-{}.jpeg".format(d['dateuploaded'], d['id']))
        if not fp_photo.exists():
            p.save(str(fp_photo))
            counter += 1
            print(counter)

    except Exception:
        errors.append("{}-{}".format(d['dateuploaded'], d['id']))

print(errors)