Get Flickr content and dump to JSON

flickrapi_get.py

import yaml
import requests
import json
import flickrapi
import webbrowser
from pprint import pprint as pp

config_file = 'auth.yaml'
with open(config_file, 'r') as config_file:
    config = yaml.safe_load(config_file)
    api_key = config['flickr']['consumer_key']
    api_secret = config['flickr']['consumer_secret']

flickr = flickrapi.FlickrAPI(api_key, api_secret, format='parsed-json')

# Authentication. Only do this if we don't have a valid token already
if not flickr.token_valid(perms='read'):

    # Get a request token
    flickr.get_request_token(oauth_callback='oob')

    # Open a browser at the authentication URL. Do this however
    # you want, as long as the user visits that URL.
    authorize_url = flickr.auth_url(perms='read')
    webbrowser.open_new_tab(authorize_url)
    print (authorize_url)

    # Get the verifier code from the user. Do this however you
    # want, as long as the user gives the application the code.
    verifier = str(input('Verifier code: '))

    # Trade the request token for an access token
    flickr.get_access_token(verifier)

# Get all data
# data = 'description, license, date_upload, date_taken, owner_name, icon_server, original_format, last_update, geo, tags, machine_tags, o_dims, views, media, path_alias, url_sq, url_t, url_s, url_q, url_m, url_n, url_z, url_c, url_l, url_o'

# Just get desc, _o URL, and tags
data = 'description, tags, url_o'

# Just desc
# data = 'description'

resp = flickr.photos.search(user_id='182826961@N04',per_page=500,page=5,privacy_filter=1,extras=data)
# pp (resp)

# resp = flickr.photos.getInfo(photo_id='48753450128')

with open ('output.json','w') as outfile:
    json.dump(resp, outfile)