Flickr Downloader
April 27th, 2008
Yesterday, a friend of mine was looking for a way to download original photos from one of his sets on flickr. Since we could not find any flickr downloader which can run on Linux, (for windows you can try : http://flickrslideshow.fateback.com/), I quickly wrote a script using flickr APIS. The sed and awk power made it v. easy 
Below is the script:
SET=”<Set - id >” # Enter SET ID here from which photos have to be downloaded, for eg. SET=”72157604130281022″
APPKEY=”" #Your APP key here, get one from http://www.flickr.com/services/api/keys/
curl “http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.photosets.getPhotos&
api_key=$APPKEY&photoset_id=$SET&extras=original_format&per_page=500″ | sed ‘~s/title=”[a-zA-Z0-9_ :)?(.]*//g’ | awk ‘/id=/ {print “http://farm3.static.flickr.com/”$4″/”$2″_”$8″_o.jpg” }’ | sed ‘~s/\(server=\|originalsecret=\|id=\|”\)//g’ > p
wget -i p
rm p
You can also download this script by clicking here
Update: Script does not work for video download.
