Script to scrape images from a flickr account.

flickr-scraper.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
""" Script to scrape images from a flickr account.

Author: Ralph Bean <rbean@redhat.com>
"""

import ConfigParser
import urllib
import requests

# Get config secrets from a file
config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
config.read(['flickr.ini', '/etc/flickr.ini'])
flickr_api_key = config.get('general', 'flickr_api_key')

# API urls
flickr_url = 'https://api.flickr.com/services/rest/'


def flickr_request(**kwargs):
    response = requests.get(flickr_url, params=dict(
        api_key=flickr_api_key,
        format='json',
        nojsoncallback=1,
        **kwargs))
    return response.json()


def get_flickr_page(nsid, page=1):
    return flickr_request(
        method='flickr.people.getPhotos',
        user_id=nsid,
        content_type=1,  # photos only
        page=page,
    )


def get_photos_for_person(nsid):
    pages = get_flickr_page(nsid)['photos']['pages']

    seen = {}
    # Step backwards through the pictures
    for page in range(pages, 1, -1):
        d = get_flickr_page(nsid, page=page)
        for photo in d['photos']['photo']:
            yield photo


def main():

    nsid = raw_input("NSID of the flickr user you want to scrape: ")

    # First get all photos
    # https://secure.flickr.com/services/api/flickr.people.getPhotos.html
    photos = get_photos_for_person(nsid)

    # Then, with photo objects, get the images
    # https://secure.flickr.com/services/api/misc.urls.html
    # Each of these photo objects looks something like this
    # {u'farm': 8,
    #  u'id': u'13606821584',
    #  u'isfamily': 0,
    #  u'isfriend': 0,
    #  u'ispublic': 1,
    #  u'owner': u'65490292@N04',
    #  u'secret': u'c5bfa5eb3e',
    #  u'server': u'7171',
    #  u'title': u''}

    output = 'flickr/'
    prefix = "http://farm{farm}.staticflickr.com/{server}/"
    suffix = "{id}_{secret}_b.jpg"
    template = prefix + suffix

    for i, photo in enumerate(photos):
        url = template.format(**photo)
        index = "%0.6i" % i
        local = output + index + "-" + suffix.format(**photo)
        print "* saving", url
        urllib.urlretrieve(url, local)
        print "      as", local


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

flickr.ini

[general]

flickr_api_key = put-your-api-key-here

Saved me a bunch of work, thank you