Tayyab Bin Tariq » Flickr.com http://tayyab.xenoglaux-solutions.com I like sharing what i know Fri, 21 May 2010 20:59:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 How to Easily Download Large Number of Images from Flicker.com http://tayyab.xenoglaux-solutions.com/2010/01/21/how-to-easily-download-large-number-of-images-from-flicker-com/ http://tayyab.xenoglaux-solutions.com/2010/01/21/how-to-easily-download-large-number-of-images-from-flicker-com/#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:24:52 +0000 tayyabtariq http://tayyab.xenoglaux-solutions.com/2010/01/21/how-to-easily-download-large-number-of-images-from-flicker-com/ 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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