What's the simplest way to download all of my photos off of Flickr?
August 5, 2018 12:34 PM
I'm trying to find a way to batch download all of the photos I've uploaded to Flickr in the original quality that I uploaded them to the site. Is there a way to do this?
When evaluating solutions, decide whether you just need the photos or if you care about getting all the extra data like photo title, description, comments, map location, etc. All that metadata is harder to capture and I'm not aware of any solution that then lets you re-import it to some other photo hosting site intact.
posted by Nelson at 2:17 PM on August 5, 2018
posted by Nelson at 2:17 PM on August 5, 2018
You can download your original photos directly on Flickr either via Albums or Flickr's Camera Roll. Camera Roll has a limit of 500 photos/download while Albums have a 5000/download limit. In Camera Roll just highlight the photos you want to download and a dialogue box will appear with several options, one of which is downloading. To download by Album click on the downward facing arrow in the Album header.
Either way, Flickr will then build a zip file of all the photos you've chosen. That sometimes takes a while if you've chosen many photos, if you have large originals, or if downloading is busy across the site. Note that if you put photos in multiple albums you will get multiple downloads of those photos. If that's the case you might want to make unique albums just for downloading purposes. And as Nelson said, this will only give you the original file that you uploaded, not any of the associated metadata. Official info here.
Bulkr, mentioned above, is the third party downloader that is most frequently recommended on the Flickr Help Forum.
posted by plastic_animals at 4:48 PM on August 5, 2018
Either way, Flickr will then build a zip file of all the photos you've chosen. That sometimes takes a while if you've chosen many photos, if you have large originals, or if downloading is busy across the site. Note that if you put photos in multiple albums you will get multiple downloads of those photos. If that's the case you might want to make unique albums just for downloading purposes. And as Nelson said, this will only give you the original file that you uploaded, not any of the associated metadata. Official info here.
Bulkr, mentioned above, is the third party downloader that is most frequently recommended on the Flickr Help Forum.
posted by plastic_animals at 4:48 PM on August 5, 2018
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posted by jessamyn at 1:30 PM on August 5, 2018