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Clone the repo
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Create a virtualenvironment
virtualenv env
source env/bin/activate
- Install requirements
pip install -r requirements.txt
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"
Where GROUP URL is something like https://www.flickr.com/groups/scenery/pool/
You can also add a lat/lng coordinates to specify a geographic bounding box:
python scraper.py --search "SEARCH TERM" --bbox "minimum_longitude minimum_latitude maximum_longitude maximum_latitude"
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. Specify the start page with --start-page M.