#script to download pile of flickr images and make a montage #needs montage command which comes with imagemagick I install that with homebrew #some notes at the end of the file

flickr-montage.sh

#!/bin/bash

#script to download pile of flickr images and make a montage
 
#needs montage command which comes with imagemagick I install that with homebrew
#some notes at the end of the file

#Fill in the params any except the APIKEY can be empty
# this will take some time!
APIKEY='FILL-IN_API_KEY'

#this is my flickr user id you probably want to change that.
USERID='71428177%40N00'

SINCEDATE='2022-01-01'
#unix timestamp or mysql datetime
TAGS=''
NUMPHOTOS='500'
#max photos 500
#Need to know how many pages there are if you want more that the first 500 images 
PAGES='1'
PHOTOSORT='date-taken-desc' 
#date-posted-desc
#date-posted-asc
#date-posted-desc
#date-taken-asc
#date-taken-desc
#interestingness-desc
#interestingness-asc
#relevance


#### END OF SETTINGS ####

#Make a temp directory to work in 
TEMPDIR=$(mktemp -d -t 'mytmpdir')
open $TEMPDIR
HERE=$( pwd )
trap "{ cd $HERE ; rm -rf $TEMPDIR; exit 255; }" SIGINT
cd $TEMPDIR

ALLFILELIST=""
for counter in `seq 1 $PAGES`;
do
searchurl="https://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.photos.search&api_key=${APIKEY}&user_id=${USERID}&media=photos&min_taken_date=${SINCEDATE}&text=${TAGS}&extras=url_q&sort=${PHOTOSORT}&per_page=${NUMPHOTOS}&page=${counter}&format=rest"
 
#url_q is small square 

FILELIST=$(curl "$searchurl"  |  sed -ne 's/.*\(http[^"]*\).*/\1/p')

ALLFILELIST="$ALLFILELIST $FILELIST"
done
echo $ALLFILELIST

a=`echo $ALLFILELIST  | wc -w`

	
for i in $ALLFILELIST ; 
do
let a=a-1
new=$(printf "%04d.jpg" "$a")
curl -o $new $i 
done;



/usr/local/bin/montage *.jpg montage.jpeg

##this seems to give a squarish image, so I often cd into the directory and us:
#montage -mode concatenate -tile 30x *.jpg montage.jpeg
# to make a landscape montage You can also use -background black 
#I use .jpeg for the output so I don't get a montage mixed in to the next montage'