Python script to download entire photosets (original quality) on Flickr. #flickr

fr-set-down.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import subprocess
import sys

# pip install flickrapi
# project home: http://stuvel.eu/flickrapi
import flickrapi

api_key = '00000000000000000000000000000000' # obtain your api key at http://www.flickr.com/services
fr = flickrapi.FlickrAPI(api_key)

photoset_id = sys.argv[1]

photoset = fr.photosets_getInfo(photoset_id=photoset_id).find('photoset')
owner_nsid = photoset.attrib['owner']
count = photoset.attrib['photos']
index_len = len(count)

print '%s photos in total' % count

processes = []
counter = 0
for photo in fr.walk_set(photoset_id):
    counter += 1
    label = 'flickr.com_' + owner_nsid + '-' + photoset_id + '-' + str(counter).zfill(index_len)
    photo_id = photo.get('id')
    sizes = fr.photos_getSizes(photo_id=photo_id)
    photo_uri = sizes.find('sizes').findall('size')[-1].attrib['source'] # 'Original' is alwasy the last size
    extension = photo_uri.split('.')[-1]
    filename = label + '.' + extension
    print 'wget -q %s -O %s' % (photo_uri, filename)
    processes.append(subprocess.Popen(['wget', '-q', photo_uri, '-O', filename]))

returncode = 0
for i in range(0, counter):
    p = processes[i]
    if p.wait() != 0:
        returncode = 1
        label = str(i + 1).zfill(index_len)
        print 'fr-set-down error: download # %s failed' % label
exit(returncode)