Erinqi / flickr-scrape

Scrape flickr

Installation

1. Clone the repo

2. Create a virtualenvironment

virtualenv env
source env/bin/activate

3. Install requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

Get an API key from Flickr and make a file called credentials.json which has the following text in it (replace the credentials with your own):

{"KEY":"YOUR_API_KEY", "SECRET":"YOUR_API_SECRET"}

To scrape for a particular search term:

python scraper.py --search "SEARCH TERM" --bbox minimum_longitude,minimum_latitude,maximum_longitude,maximum_latitude

To scrape for a particular group:

python scraper.py --group "GROUP URL" --bbox minimum_longitude,minimum_latitude,maximum_longitude,maximum_latitude

Where GROUP URL is something like https://www.flickr.com/groups/scenery/pool/

Large-sized (1024px width) will be downloaded by default. You can download the original images by passing the flag --original.

Limit the number of pages of results downloaded by passing --max-pages N where N is pages of 500 results each.