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FlickrDown: bulk photostream downloader
My wife takes a lot of photos of the jewelry she creates, and she uses Flickr to store and share them. Recently, however, she was shooting out of town and ran out of room on her SD card. Her solution: plug in to a friend's PC and upload them to her photostream.When she got home, she wanted a quick way to download all 300+ images for editing. That would have been a pretty tedious chore, were it not for FlickrDown.
You can search by username, e-mail address, tags, or groups. Results display quickly, and downloading is as simple as checking a few boxes, browsing for your destination folder, and clicking download. Authorization is supported - and necessary if you're going to download private photos.
FlickrDown will automatically create a new folder inside your destination to make sure your selected photos are stored neatly. Folders are named based on your search text or the group name. You also don't have to worry about it overwriting existing files - it will automatically append -fd to the new ones.
My only minor gripe is that the download progress shows in a separate window (and adds another button to the taskbar). It's easy to overlook since FlickrDown so good at what it does.
FlickrDown is freeware for Windows only, and the .Net 2.0 runtimes are required.
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Butters said 2:15PM on 10-27-2008
Great app Lee. Thanks for letting us know about it. This is just the thing I need to download my own photos from Flickr.
One question: What size photo does it download? Is it the size of the originally uploaded photo or is it a set size that may be of a lower quality? I couldn't find the answer on the greegman site either but I thought you may know.
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Lee Mathews said 2:35PM on 10-27-2008
All the photos I grabbed were the original size, but you'll have to experiment and see - can't say for certain!
LADYHUZTLE=JOEY said 7:17PM on 10-27-2008
we're looking for new updates for our sidekick LX
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Matt said 7:40PM on 10-27-2008
I've tried on and off for months to get this and other apps like it to download my entire stream (about 5,500 photos) but they always have an error and stop somewhere random
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Nuclear Fire said 12:22AM on 10-28-2008
It will download the original files, even from other users who have not authorized you to do so.
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Victory said 10:54AM on 10-28-2008
Another choice is PicaLoader, a powerful picture downloader, Not only download from Flickr.
Here is an article about download from filckr:
http://www.picaloader.com/forum/howto-download-original-size-pics-from-flickr-t2118.html
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