Hi

 

Have been tasked with finding a solution to a particular requirement;

 

Am involved with a group that will be allowing uploaded to a Flickr account by several people. We want to find a way to (automatically) pull down/syncronise the Flickr account to local storage as a backup. Of course I'm thinking unRAID for the local storage solution but wondering if anyone has any ideas on how the content could be pulled down from Flickr?

 

Thanks

 

Peter

 

 

wget has crawling options.... and its included in unraid afaik.  Wouldn't like to comment on wether using it for what you want is feasible however.

Also i see a few people have written python scripts that do what you want eg :- https://github.com/dan/hivelogic-flickrtouchr

 

You are always going to be at the mercy of yahoo changing the website and breaking whatever you setup.

 

 

There's a perfect tool for that :

 

http://clipyourphotos.com/bulkr

 

For bulk downloading photo's from Flickr

Great

 

Thanks all for the tips.

 

I was hoping for something that could be automated but the Flickr application authentication requirements kind of prevents that.

 

Peter

 

Does flicker allow ftp access or is it some kind of web view only?

Have you considered using Picasa Web Albums instead of flikr?  They allow syncing with the local copy of Picasa, and that copy could be pulling photos off the unRAID server.  I'm not sure if the syncing works both ways, though...I don't know if you can automatically pull photos from the Picasa cloud storage onto the unRAID server.  You can do them one at a time, of course.

 

Still, I've found Picasa Web Albums to be more versatile than flikr.  All the photos on the Greenleaf site are hosted by Picasa Web Albums.

Great

 

Thanks all for the tips.

 

I was hoping for something that could be automated but the Flickr application authentication requirements kind of prevents that.

 

Peter

 

 

you only need to authorize Bulkr once IIRC