Introduction

This directory contains Flickr image-scraping software developed by Ultralytics LLC, and is freely available for redistribution under the GPL-3.0 license. For more information please visit https://www.ultralytics.com.

Requirements

Python 3.7 or later with all of the pip install -U -r requirements.txt packages including:

• flickrapi

Install

git clone https://github.com/ultralytics/flickr_scraper
cd flickr_scraper
pip install -U -r requirements.txt

Use

1. Request a Flickr API key: https://www.flickr.com/services/apps/create/apply

2. Write your API key and secret in flickr_scraper.py L9-L10:

key = ''
secret = ''

3. Search for up to n images, and optionally --download. URLs are printed to screen and downloaded images are saved in flickr_scraper/images. Note that image downloads may be subject to Flickr rate limits and other limitations. See https://www.flickr.com/services/developer/api/ for full information.

$ python3 flickr_scraper.py --search 'honeybees on flowers' --n 10 --download

0/10 https://live.staticflickr.com/21/38596887_40df118fd9_o.jpg
1/10 https://live.staticflickr.com/4800/40729137901_5dafdc039f_o.jpg
2/10 https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7428/27138770446_6618c10ffb_b.jpg
3/10 https://live.staticflickr.com/925/29647053658_728134f6ca_o.jpg
4/10 https://live.staticflickr.com/1732/27535176747_78b83536af_o.jpg
5/10 https://live.staticflickr.com/7850/47160160332_6b0c88e207_o.jpg
6/10 https://live.staticflickr.com/1919/44312457665_6f7b6c2c42_o.jpg
7/10 https://live.staticflickr.com/7922/46297818725_21c13a3629_o.jpg
8/10 https://live.staticflickr.com/8045/29760999676_e71c938283_o.jpg
9/10 https://live.staticflickr.com/1770/43276172331_e779b8c161_o.jpg
Done. (4.1s)
All images saved to /Users/glennjocher/PycharmProjects/flickr_scraper/images/honeybees_on_flowers/

Cite

Contact

Issues should be raised directly in the repository. For additional questions or comments please email Glenn Jocher at glenn.jocher@ultralytics.com or visit us at https://contact.ultralytics.com.