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Flickr Tools

A set of tools for interacting with the Flickr photo sharing service.

Tools

Random Favorite

flickr-random-fav accepts a Flickr user name and downloads a random image from the favorites chosen by that user.

Usage:

  • -dir string Directory of the downloaded image (default ".")
  • -env string Name of an environment file that contains the FLICKR_API_KEY value. If omitted and no "key" argument specified, uses "./.env" for enviroment file.
  • -key string Flickr API Key. May be specified in an evironment file (see 'env' option)
  • -minsize int Minimum acceptable long edge size if desired size is not available (default 2000)
  • -size int Desired size of the long edge of the image. Resultant image may be larger if size does not exist. (default 2048)
  • -user string Name of user for which to load favorites
  • -v Verbose

Download All Favorites

flickr-download-all-favs accepts a Flickr user name and downloads all images from the favorites chosen by that user.

Usage:

  • -dir string Directory of the downloaded image (default ".")
  • -env string Name of an environment file that contains the FLICKR_API_KEY value. If omitted and no "key" argument specified, uses "./.env" for enviroment file.
  • -fail Fails if min desired size not available. Default is false
  • -key string Flickr API Key. May be specified in an evironment file (see 'env' option)
  • -minsize int Minimum acceptable long edge size if desired size is not available (default 2000)
  • -size int Desired size of the long edge of the image. Resultant image may be larger if size does not exist. (default 2048)
  • -user string Name of user for which to load favorites
  • -v Verbose

Flickr API Key (Required)

In order to access the Flickr API, you must obtain a Flickr API Key. This key has to be know by all of the tools in this package.

Setting the API key can be done in a number of ways and is checked in this order:

  1. Specifying with the -key command line parameter.
  2. Specifying a file with the -env command line parameter. This file should contain the key specification in the form FLICKR_API_KEY=XXXXXXX.
  3. A file in the current directory named .env that contains the key as above.
  4. An existing environment variable that contains the key as above. Note that this overrides any env file specified above.