Back up Flickr photos on Amazon S3
If you choose to use a virtual environment to run your script, here is how you do it.
virtualenv -p python3 venv
Access the virtual env with:
source ./venv/bin/activate
From there you can execute the script.
Leave the virtual env with:
deactivate
From with the virtual env, execute the following to install the dependencies:
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
=== The access key for your AWS account with the S3 bucket (OPTIONAL)
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
=== The secret key for your AWS account (OPTIONAL)
FLICKR_BUCKET
=== Target AWS S3 bucket name
FLICKR_KEY
=== Flickr API key
FLICKR_SECRET
=== Flickr API secret
FLICKR_URL
=== The root Flickr URL to your photos
S3_PATH
=== The path (prefix) for the S3 keys for the photos
S3_REGION
=== AWS region where the S3 bucket resides
S3_STORAGE_CLASS
=== AWS S3 storage class (DEFAULT: STANDARD_IA
; CHOICES: STANDARD
|REDUCED_REDUNDANCY
|STANDARD_IA
|ONEZONE_IA
|INTELLIGENT_TIERING
|GLACIER
|DEEP_ARCHIVE
)
If AWS cli is installed and configured, you may not need to specify the environment variables necessary for your AWS credentials, AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
. See configure credentials in boto3's documentation. There are many ways to specify your AWS credentials. Pick the one that is best for you.