Getting an error on execute:

[dafjedavid]

~# flickrbackup.py -f 1978-01-01 -o /share/Photos/
Running backup of images updated since 1978-01-01
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/flickrbackup.py", line 480, in
main()
File "/usr/bin/flickrbackup.py", line 466, in main
verbose=arguments.verbose
File "/usr/bin/flickrbackup.py", line 116, in init
self.flickr_api, self.flickr_usernsid = self.retrieve_flickr_token()
File "/usr/bin/flickrbackup.py", line 301, in retrieve_flickr_token
(token, frob) = flickr_api.get_token_part_one(perms='write')
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/flickrapi/init.py", line 749, in get_token_part_one
rsp = self.auth_getFrob(auth_token=None, format='xmlnode')
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/flickrapi/init.py", line 349, in handler
parse_format=args['format'], *_args)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/flickrapi/init.py", line 427, in __wrap_in_parser
data = wrapped_method(_args, *_kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/flickrapi/init.py", line 402, in __flickr_call
flicksocket = urllib2.urlopen(url, post_data)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 127, in urlopen
return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 410, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 523, in http_response
'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 448, in error
return self._call_chain(_args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 382, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 531, in http_error_default
raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

[dafjedavid]

Found the issue: Flickr API changed. Was enough to change all hardcoded http:// links to https://

After that, flickrbackup worked again.