Nov 2014 update: Yahoo's step to sell the CC-licensed pictures upset a lot of users (who obviously did not understand this license) and may now want to delete their accounts (with up to 10k images each).ĭec 2015 update: Yahoo!'s Action Plan in their 2015 shareholder presentation mentions killing Flickr. May 2013 update: new interface apparently very overloaded and masses of pro users abandoning the place, deleting their profiles and/or wishing to archive it. Seems to be stable, can probably change at any time.

gallery-dl downloads images from many photo galleries, including Flickr, without an API key.

flickr2ia: backup photos (not videos) and metadata (not comments).

If you have your iPhoto connected with your Flickr account, you can back up your pictures on Flickr through iPhoto.

easyflickrbackup backup all your photos from Flickr.

backup-all-my-flickr-photos downloads all your Flickr photos and videos.

Pagination is not handled yet, so if you have any sets with more than 500 photos or comments they won't all be downloaded.

flickr-backup backups Flickr photosets, photos, and JSON metadata.

It also does not preserve order of photos in photostream (though you can emulate it sorting by upload timestamp) and order of albums in collections. It mirrors images, titles, description, tags, albums and collections.

flickrmirrorer is a small command-line python script that creates a local backup of your Flickr data.

Based on flickrtouchr, it also backs up flickr metadata, storing it as EXIF tags within the images.

This blog post documents the flickrbackup tool.

It backs up the full sized versions of your images but it doesn't currently backup metadata. This blog post documents the flickrtouchr Flickr backup tool.

5 2022 Only Pro accounts can create moderate or restricted content.

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