Best way to download all my Flickr photos?

September 15, 2017 6:24 AM

Is there a good tool these days that will let me do a full dump of all my Flickr content, including my non-public pics, at full resolution? What's the best way to do this, and are the new owners likely to change it any time soon? Thanks!
posted by rmd1023 to Computers & Internet (5 answers total)

I think there are a couple of ways to do bulk downloads. The one I'm familiar with is by album. Open up an album and look for the downward pointing arrow. That will create a zip file all your originals in the album. Note that mixing videos and photos may cause the zip file to fail and some people have reported problems with large zip files. Since albums are just links to original photos it may be quicker to create temporary albums with 100-200 photos in them just for downloading rather than to download each of the smaller albums that I see in your account.

You may be able to do something similar via Camera Roll but I've not tried it. There are also a couple of third-party tools like Bulkr and Flickandsave (not sure of the name of the latter) that I've also not tried.

There has been no indication as to what Verizon/Oath is going to do with Flickr.
posted by plastic_animals at 6:59 AM on September 15, 2017

Flickr does let you download all of them in bulk through Camera Roll, but I ran into trouble doing all mine in one go, so I just broke it up by year (but depending on how many you have, you may want smaller increments). I found that to be easier than any 3rd party service.

I can't provide better instructions because I delete my Flickr account after doing this, but I remember it being pretty straightforward and surprisingly easy.
posted by darksong at 7:20 AM on September 15, 2017

This Help page talks about how to use Camera Roll to download pictures in bulk. There is a derail in the middle, but it gets back on topic towards the end.
posted by soelo at 7:22 AM on September 15, 2017

I've had some success in the past with flickredit - it can take a while, but last time I used it it worked pretty well
posted by motdiem2 at 1:26 PM on September 15, 2017

Here's a recent answer from mzarquon that worked for me.
posted by bendy at 8:32 PM on September 15, 2017