/flickr-crawler

A java tool for crawling and downloading public images from Flickr by keywords, geo-locations etc.

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Crawl and Download from Flickr

  • This repo includes Flickr image crawler and downloader used in following paper.
  • It does NOT need any Flickr API to work (If requested, use Flickr's public api key). It makes queries and pulls data through Flickr's public website.
  • It ofcourse only crawls publicly shared photos for a given geographical bounding box.

Usage

  • Find appropriate downloader from src folder.
  • Import db template file (e.g. baseDB.sql) in localhost
  • Include necessary lib files into eclipse.
  • Fill bounding box coordinates of the city you want to crawl, then, crawl the users who puplicly share a photo within that bounding box.
  • Once users are crawled, then start downloading photos.
  • Check paper for details to make filtering for your purpose.

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