Archiving flickr
January 1, 2010 1:16 PM Subscribe
A friend of mine died about a year ago and I would like to archive his flickr photostream (along with comments) before it is taken offline. There are a lot of photos on there so is there an easy way to do this other than saving each page individually?
(Those are for archiving all his photos, but I don't think they archive the comments)
posted by sharkfu at 1:38 PM on January 1, 2010
posted by sharkfu at 1:38 PM on January 1, 2010
I'd ask someone on the flickr team.
Actually, I'd ask specifically, since I know she is (or was) important in their community relations department and she's a good soul. I bet they'll be happy to help with something like this.
It's a good thing you're doing. I sometimes wonder, when I die, who if anyone will reclaim all of my online works and preserve them for me. Good on you for doing this for your friend.
posted by gauche at 4:18 PM on January 1, 2010
Actually, I'd ask specifically, since I know she is (or was) important in their community relations department and she's a good soul. I bet they'll be happy to help with something like this.
It's a good thing you're doing. I sometimes wonder, when I die, who if anyone will reclaim all of my online works and preserve them for me. Good on you for doing this for your friend.
posted by gauche at 4:18 PM on January 1, 2010
Ahem. Forgot to close the tag, apparently.
I'd ask Heather Champ, specifically, is what I meant to say.
posted by gauche at 4:19 PM on January 1, 2010
I'd ask Heather Champ, specifically, is what I meant to say.
posted by gauche at 4:19 PM on January 1, 2010
A big question on which the answers depend: can you login to his Flickr account? If not, you won't be able to give any of these backup tools API access. Most tools are probably using the API rather than screen scraping.
If you can login to his account, do you need/want to save the structure of the pages, or just the data itself (all photo versions, comments, tags, etc)? There's a nice tool to grab all the data from an account, but it requires a little programming fu (and a few patches I have to work correctly). I could certainly help you with if you wanted. You'd need to be able to login to his Flickr account though in order to give the tool API access.
posted by thebabelfish at 6:37 PM on January 1, 2010
If you can login to his account, do you need/want to save the structure of the pages, or just the data itself (all photo versions, comments, tags, etc)? There's a nice tool to grab all the data from an account, but it requires a little programming fu (and a few patches I have to work correctly). I could certainly help you with if you wanted. You'd need to be able to login to his Flickr account though in order to give the tool API access.
posted by thebabelfish at 6:37 PM on January 1, 2010
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