Download flickr favorites

readme.md

First, get python 3

create virtual environment

python3 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate

install packages

pip install -r requirements.txt

update API key and secret in getFavorites.py

api_key = u'API_KEY'
api_secret = u'API_SECRET'

Run

python3 getFavorites.py

Photos will be downloaded into ./photos directory and photoData.json will have all the information on the photos.

getFavorites.py

import flickrapi
import urllib.request
import os.path
import json

# Make it work for Python 2+3 and with Unicode
import io
try:
    to_unicode = unicode
except NameError:
    to_unicode = str

api_key = u'API_KEY' # CHANGE THIS
api_secret = u'API_SECRET' # AND THIS
directory = './photos' # change if you need

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

def downloadPhoto(p, file_name):
    if 'url_o' in p:
        url = p['url_o']
    else:
        url = "https://farm{farm}.staticflickr.com/{server}/{id}_{secret}_b.jpg".format(**p) # use large size
        print("using fallback url {url}".format(url=url))

    try:
        urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, file_name)
        return True
    except Exception as inst:
        print(type(inst))
        print(inst)
        return False


# TODO - favorite getList pagination
favs = flickr.favorites.getList(per_page=500,extras="url_o")

photosInfo = {}
counter = 0

# ensure photos directory exists
if not os.path.exists(directory):
    os.makedirs(directory)

for p in favs['photos']['photo']:
    counter = counter + 1
    # print(p)
    file_name = "{directory}/{title}.jpg".format(directory=directory, title=p['title'])
    
    if not os.path.exists(file_name):
        print("{counter} - attempting to download {title}".format(counter=counter, title=p['title']))
        downloadSuccessful = downloadPhoto(p, file_name)
        info = flickr.photos.getInfo(photo_id=p['id'], secret=p['secret'])
            
        if downloadSuccessful:
            photosInfo[file_name] = info['photo']
        else:
            print("unable to download image {id}".format(id=p['id']))

    break          

# Write JSON file
with io.open('photoData.json', 'w', encoding='utf8') as outfile:
    str_ = json.dumps(photosInfo,
                      indent=4, sort_keys=True,
                      separators=(',', ': '), ensure_ascii=False)
    outfile.write(to_unicode(str_))

requirements.txt

flickrapi==2.4.0