- 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.
- 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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Please cite to following paper(s) if you use this crawler for academic purpose;
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E. Uzun and H. T. Sencar, “JpgScraper: An Advanced Carver for JPEG Files”, IEEETransactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2019.
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E. Uzun and H. T. Sencar, “Carving orphaned jpeg file fragments”, IEEETransactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 10, no. 8, pp.1549–1563, 2015.