Quick hack to get your original images back from your Flickr photostream, if you're lucky.
python flickrgrabr.py <URI of first page of stream>
For example:
python flickrgrab.py http://www.flickr.com/photos/homatthew/12267802976
... if you were homatthew
I found out I have an old Flickr photostream that contains some photos that I took long ago with my BlackBerry Pearl. I didn't have copies anywhere else, so I wanted to download them.
I didn't look too hard, but it seems that you can't get your originals back out of Flickr in bulk via the Flickr web UI. My searches turned up some binary apps that will download the originals for you, but being the skeptical sort that I am, I figured I would just write a Python script to do it.
This script works for me, but it's brittle. I tested it out on some of the top Flickr photostreams and it didn't work. Maybe premium accounts' pages are formatted differently. Once it worked for my photo streams, I stopped working on it :)
Use at your own risk. I take no responsibility for how you use this script. This script was honestly designed to help me, a Flickr user whose copywrighted photos are stuck on Flickr servers, and maybe other folks in my situation. If by some miracle these folks come across this project when googling for solutions. Please don't use it to steal others' photos without permission.
Jonathan Foote
jmfoote@loyola.edu
18 Feb 2014