How to Easily Download Large Number of Images from Flicker.com

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Recently I needed some images to create a dataset for a project I am doing. While Flickr.com seemed to be the best source. All i needed to do was to put in a query and a large number of relevant images would show up. But downloading original images from Flickr.com can be bit of a mess, let alone a large number of images.

So I came up with a simple three step process to download all the images on a given page easily.

1. Save the html source of the Flickr.com page.

2. Give the source to this C++ code and get download links to all images.

3. Download all the images using FlashGet.

PS: If someone could write a Java script of this C++ code and write a wrapper to automatically get the HTML source, the above can be reduced to just one step.

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4 Responses to “How to Easily Download Large Number of Images from Flicker.com”

  1. Zaki shaheen says:

    Should be fairly easy to write it in python using PyUrl.. don’t have time right now but will see if i get any time might try.

  2. Zaki shaheen says:

    Since powershell comes with win7, you can look into the following to write a small executable script

    http://community.bartdesmet.net/blogs/bart/archive/2006/11/25/PowerShell-_2D00_-How-to-download-a-file_3F00_.aspx

  3. Zarya says:

    Whoa, whoa, get out the way with that good inforamiotn.

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