Import Flickr images from one account to another based on text files links.

f2f.py

#!/usr/bin/python

FILES_READ_PATH = '/path/to/txt/files'
FILES_WRITE_PATH = '/where/to/save/images'

FROM_USER = 'you_username'
FROM_FLICKR_API_KEY = 'some_key'
FROM_FLICKR_API_SECRET = 'some_secret'

TO_USER = 'your_username'
TO_FLICKR_API_KEY = 'some_key'
TO_FLICKR_API_SECRET = 'some_secret'

import sys
import os
import re
import flickrapi
import urllib2

def get_files(initial):
    paths = (os.path.join(root, f) for root, dirs, files in os.walk(initial)
        for f in files)
    return (path for path in paths)

# Objects
from_flickr = flickrapi.FlickrAPI(FROM_FLICKR_API_KEY, FROM_FLICKR_API_SECRET)
to_flickr = flickrapi.FlickrAPI(TO_FLICKR_API_KEY, TO_FLICKR_API_SECRET)

# Tokens
(to_token, to_frob) = to_flickr.get_token_part_one(perms='write')
if not to_token: raw_input("Press ENTER after you authorize")
to_flickr.get_token_part_two((to_token, to_frob))

for f_path in get_files(FILES_READ_PATH):

    print 'Scanning ', f_path

    f_handler = open(f_path, 'r')
    f_content = f_handler.read().decode('utf-8')
    f_regex = '(http[s]?://(www\.)?flickr\.com/photos/' + FROM_USER + '/([0-9]+))'
    f_urls = re.findall(f_regex, f_content)
    flickr_urls = []
    for f_url in f_urls:

        url = f_url[2]

        # File info
        fileinfo = False
        while not fileinfo:
            try:
                f = from_flickr.photos_getInfo(photo_id=url).find('photo')
            except:
                # Invalid photo
                continue
            fileinfo = True

        t = f.find('title').text
        d = f.find('description').text
        d = d if d else ''
        p = f.attrib

        # File names
        p_filename = '%s_%s_o.%s' %  (p['id'], p['originalsecret'], p['originalformat'])
        p_base = 'http://farm%s.staticflickr.com/%s/%s'
        p_url = p_base % (p['farm'], p['server'], p_filename)
        p_filepath = FILES_WRITE_PATH + p_filename

        # Download
        print '  Downloading ', p_url
        if not os.path.exists(p_filepath):
            download = False
            while not download:
                try:
                    p_bin = urllib2.urlopen(p_url)
                except:
                    continue
                download = True

            output = open(p_filepath, 'wb')
            output.write(p_bin.read())
            output.close()

        # Upload
        print '  Uploading ', p_filepath
        upload = False
        while not upload:
            try:
                u = to_flickr.upload(
                    filename = p_filepath,
                    title = t,
                    description = d,
                    format = 'etree')
            except:
                continue
            upload = True


        u_id = u.find('photoid').text

        # Uploaded file info
        fileinfo = False
        while not fileinfo:
            try:
                f = from_flickr.photos_getInfo(photo_id=u_id).find('photo')
            except:
                continue
            fileinfo = True

        u_t = f.find('title').text
        u_d = f.find('description').text
        u_d = u_d if u_d else u_t
        u = f.attrib
        u_url = 'http://farm%s.staticflickr.com/%s/%s_%s.jpg' % \
            (u['farm'], u['server'], u['id'], u['secret'])
        u_img = '<a title="%s" href="http://flickr.com/%s/%s/"><img alt="%s" src="%s" /></a>' % \
            (u_d, TO_USER, u_id, u_d, u_url)

        match = re.compile(ur'<.*%s.*>' % url, re.UNICODE)
        new_content = match.sub(u_img, f_content)
        f = open(f_path, 'wb')
        f.write(new_content.encode('utf-8'))
        f.close()