Do you need a whole bunch of stock photos for your latest project? Or maybe some images to flesh out a prototype? This command line tool fetches photos with a Creative Commons licence using the flickr API.
pip install flickrstock
You will need a flickr API
key. It takes
about 30 seconds to get one. Set it as the FLICKR_API_KEY
environment variable or pass it on the command line.
usage: flickrstock [-h] [-s {sq,t,s,q,m,n,z,c,l,o}] [-n NUMBER] [-o OUTPUT]
[-k KEY]
term [term ...]
Download stock photos from flickr
positional arguments:
term search terms
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-s {sq,t,s,q,m,n,z,c,l,o}, --size {sq,t,s,q,m,n,z,c,l,o}
photo size
-n NUMBER, --number NUMBER
how many photos
-o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
output directory
-k KEY, --key KEY flickr api key
Fetch some medium-sized pictures of pandas:
$ flickrstock --size m panda
Download 5 original-size photos of hotel rooms, saving the original urls in a separate file for attribution purposes:
$ flickrstock -n 5 --size o --output ./hotel-rooms hotel room > urls.txt
MIT.