Download all your images from Flickr. (Does not work for videos)

flickrExport.js

const Flickr = require('flickrapi');
const Bluebird = require('bluebird');
const request = require('request');
const fs = require('fs');
const path = require('path');

const DOWNLOAD_PATH = path.resolve(process.env.HOME, 'Downloads/flickr');

const flickrOptions = {
  api_key: process.env.FLICKR_API_KEY,
  secret: process.env.FLICKR_API_SECRET
};

function getPhotoUrl({ farm, server, id, originalsecret, originalformat }) {
  return `https://farm${farm}.staticflickr.com/${server}/${id}_${originalsecret}_o.${originalformat}`;
}

async function main() {
  const flickr = await Bluebird.fromCallback(callback => Flickr.authenticate(flickrOptions, callback));

  const getPhotos = Bluebird.promisify(flickr.people.getPhotos);

  let currentPage = 1;
  let totalPages = 1;
  let results = [];

  for (currentPage = 1; currentPage <= totalPages; currentPage++) {
    const result = await getPhotos({
      user_id: flickr.options.user_id,
      authenticated: true,
      extras: 'original_format',
      page: currentPage
    });

    totalPages = result.photos.pages;
    results = results.concat(result.photos.photo);
  }
  
  await Bluebird.map(results, photo => new Bluebird((resolve, reject) => {
      const url = getPhotoUrl(photo);
      const fileName = url.substr(url.lastIndexOf('/') + 1);
      const filePath = path.resolve(DOWNLOAD_PATH, fileName);
      console.log(`Downloading ${url} to ${filePath}`);
      request
        .get(url)
        .on('error', reject)
        .pipe(fs.createWriteStream(filePath))
        .on('finish', () => {
          console.log(`Downloaded ${filePath}`);
          resolve();
        });
  }), { concurrency: 5 });

  console.log('All Photos Downloaded!');
}

main().catch(err => console.error(err));

init.sh

npm install bluebird flickrapi request