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I also was surprised, having paid for a pro account, that this is not a basic feature. Order CDs/DVDs may be a great moneymaker for Flickr, but expensive, slow, and unnecessary for users. A reasonable amount of batch download should be available. From the "many closed threads due to lack of responses" I get the feeling Flickr staff is (deliberately?) not touching this sensitive topic? Still, not very nice to advertise yourself with Flickr being a great solution to share photos with friends and family, if in practice this is impossible with any reasonable photo set. I feel a bit cheated...
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There are a few third party programs that will do this for you. Flickr AutoDownloadr is one (that I made... :).
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And of course here's the reminder that always follows topics like this that you should not rely on Flickr as a backup source for your images. You should have several back-up plans if your images are important to you. Hard drives fail, cds get scratched and break, houses burn down, and Flickr could cancel an account (accidentally or on purpose) at any time and lose your images as well.
In fact, in most cases, good old fashioned paper is still much more reliable that digital media.
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I think the idea might also be that your Flickr site may have more information than your negatives or the jpegs sitting on your HD though - descriptions, comments, tags, all that! Ideally there would be a way to batch-download your images with that stuff. I'd be willing to pay a one-time fee each time I did that, too.
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now I'm right there with you on that. There's several past topics on requests to be able to create a backup of the Flickr experience, including comments. There are a couple 3rd party tools that come close, but nothing that does it all that I've yet found.
That's the unique loss if Flickr were to go away tomorrow, especially if you have a lot of descriptions and comments that build on the original image.
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Peonza [deleted] says:
It should be availabe at least one time per year/user.
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Although, "batch downloading" would also be a boon to scam artists who are pinching Flickr images to create their own on-line image libraries.
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yah but they can already do that. There are many 3rd party applications that let this happen. But something like this would only work for the stream owner, so it shouldn't really exacerbate the risk much.
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Ahhhhh.. didn't pick up on the "stream owner only bit". Yeah, that'd work.
Although, I must ask - Christine, why don't you just print the photos yourself from your computer and printer? Please tell me that you didn't upload the photos to Flickr and not keep digital copies on your hard-drive for yourself....
As The Searcher said, it's a big nasty world, and stuff happens. Easiest to just burn them off onto a CD / DVD as back-up. Then if you want prints, just load it up and hit "Print"...
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Dr. Keats - again, the idea is not so much to backup the photos (presumably people are doing that anyway) as to backup the photos with all the supplemental, Flickr-based information: comments, descriptions, and tags.
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I could really do with this feature - for my own photos only though. I'm not bothered about the meta data - I just want copies of photos locally on my PC that I no longer have...long story.
Any response from the Flickr Staff recently on this? I saw one from 2 years ago that said "eventually"...
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This is a key feature and I don't know why they haven't addressed it!
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Peonza [deleted] says:
I do know why , because of bandwidth problem.
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I'd love to see this feature as well.
Even though I have backups on my hard disk and some of you make backups on cd's or dvd's, those can get lost. In such a scenario it would be great if you could recover your collection from flickr.
And as others have also mentioned, I would like to be able to easily share collections of pictures with people. Telling people to click on all sizes, then original and then download the picture and repeat that process 20 times is not so nice.
Anyhow, just wanted to voice my support, but the fact that this feature is still lacking after such a long time probably means it won't be added any time soon as well. :(
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Luchiano [deleted] says:
I'm also looking forward to this too. Many a times there's a party or an event I attend to with friends or relatives and everyone takes pictures with their camera and then upload them to their flickr account. I then ask them for permission to download them and use flickrdown (IMO better than flickr autodownloader) to grab them.
Since people can already downlod the hi-res versions of your pictures if you haven't specified otherwise then it won't be a problem.
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Not being funny, but in a sense you get what you pay for.
At the Kodak ofoto/easyshare/gallery site they collate any images you spec and post them to you on a cd at the original res, for twenty-odd bucks a go.
The Kodak website doesn´t compare to Flickr, but it does do that. Maybe Flickr could offer the archival CD as a product too, as it already offers 4x6 prints etc on the site. Just an idea.
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I would like to be able to dial up Flickr on photo print kiosks like the Kodak Picture maker. These machines are everywhere. They generally do a good job on images in the sRGB color space and they read every known type of digital media. They are already networked into their printers. It wouldn't be a GIANT STEP to add internet picture sites as a media source. This would fix the global print problem once and all.
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Maybe Flickr could offer the archival CD as a product too
They do, through their englaze partner. Do More with your photos
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I agree as well as this would be really great. In addition, I hate the way the ordering prints right now is implemented. Can you do a batch ordering vs. having to go to each picture and clicking on ordering prints and so on?
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crystal, you can do batch ordering... when you're on a main set page, click on 'more stuff' and then order prints... took me awhile to find that one!
but yes... flickr needs the feature to download prints. i do use flickr as one aspect of backing up photos. i have one whole set of photos (about 200 pics) that somehow or another have been deleted off my hard drive (long story). it's too much of a pain to go into each photo just to download it. also my father wanted a set of pics. going pic by pic from his computer is a pain.
flickr JUST got rid of the upload restriction for pro members, and raised the restriction for non-pro members. instead of that, they should have just given us download access. :(
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I reckon anyone who pays to use this service should definately be able to batch download their images.. I have just returned from a year overseas and saw flickr as a great way to store my photos without burning CD after CD..
and now i have returned home and need to download 18,000 photos one by one??
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Would the bandwidth be an issue if they limited batch downloads to once per week/month? Ideally, stream owners would have the ability to download their photos at any time, but if the bandwidth issue could be avoided by placing some kind of limitation on batch downloads, I'd settle for that.
Another idea: Limit batch downloads to a certain number of photos per day, and also provide the ability to download a compressed archive of all photos no more than once per month. This way you could do occasional backups of all photos and also grab a group of photos for direct sharing if needed.
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I am also in favor of being able to batch download my photos.
I am using flickr to share picture of my son with his family and they wold like to be able to download easily whole sets in order to get them printed.
I am also relying on flickr as a remote backup of my pictures (more than 3'300 pictures at the present time). How long would it take to download pictures back to my computer in case of an (unwanted) accident ?
piou-piou
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Hi everyone,
Wll, I didn't expect all those comments to my initial posting.
Since then, I have been using a third party application someone suggested to me :
FlickrDown
greggman.com/pages/flickrdown.htm
It does the job and it is easy to yse. Until Flickr realease a batch download feature, I'll use this.
Ciao!
Christine
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FlickrDown will work for people using Windows, but there's no Mac version. Here's something similar for Mac, which I just found: Flickr Backup. I'll report back once I've tried it, unless someone beats me to it.
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I'd also like to see a batch download of a particular size of photos from a set.
For instance I'd like to be able to download all the 'Small' (say) images from a set so I can create a superlarge collage / poster.
Or is there already a tool for this?
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I would support this feature too, but I'd prefer flickr to work on the subsets rather than anything else right now!
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I've tried FlickrBackup for Mac and it works *okay* (hey, it's free!), but it only seems to allow me to download entire sets, NOT, for instance, all photos tagged with a certain word (which would be much more useful in my case). Furthermore, it does not seem to get all of the photos in a set, but somehow misses downloading 5 to 10% of the total photos, randomly. In other words, I have a set of 600 photos that I try downloading, it gets 540-something and is "done," no idea why about 60 photos didn't make it, no rhyme or reason. So that's frustrating to try to work backwards and figure out which photos *didn't* download and go back and get them, one-by-one.
I will try the FlickrDown PC applet next and see if that gives similar results, hopefully not. Thanks to all for keeping this very important topic alive, it's unbelievable that Flickr hasn't offered this basic service yet.
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Podcasting for photos! Lift the limit from 20 photos to the infinity sign, let your computer suck flickr like a big fat straw (there's the big problem with this), job's a gudun.
In essence, it's what google does to build its cache of image search results, it spiders pages, finds img src= or a href=file.jpg and then downloads the image to the google servers.
I don't think batch downloading is a job for the flickr website as such. However one simple solution would be for flickr to allow a script to output a text file with a lot of hyperlinks in it, you download this text file and run it through wget or a download manager, which you just run when you go to bed, got 18,000 photos, then that's a text file with 18,000 farm1.static.flickr.com links. If flickr won't do it, you could easily download html pages, page 1 page 2 page 3, look for the hyper links and do it yourself.
Work smarter, not harder!
You could say hey flickr you've found all my photos tagged with the word "cat" could you now give me a text file with the links to the large versions of those pictures please? A webpage is a text file .... so it's no big deal to output a text file in a different format. They could append format=wget or something to the web address.
Put another way it's a style of downloading which is familiar to linux fans .... "apt-get install myphotostream" Ta-da! *jazz hands*
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I agree. Definitely a feature request!!
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batch downloads would rule planets. I left my christmas photos at my home/family computer, now I'm miles away on my computer and forgot to bring them on the thumb drive. atleast I uploaded to flickr, but now I wish I could DL them all to my comp in a fast easy way. rather than one by one.
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Well jamor, check out flickrdown ?
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While Flickr is without a doubt my favorite photo community, lack of batch downloads is preventing me to switch to a pro account with them.
Flickr people (if you read): what about a "download album as zip", the way 23hq.com does it (and not just for pro accounts but for everyone, including visitors - great to send pictures to family; they can browse photos online and download album if they want to print more than one photo at home).
Come on - Flickr used to always be one step ahead of the rest of the pack. Don't lose that edge.
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There are applications around to do just that...stop complaining and search!
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Well I don't agree with the stop complaining comment. It would be better if Flickr offered it themselves.
But for now the other apps will have to do.
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I agree. Definitely.
I use a set for backup, and have thousands of private pictures there until that day my PC crash.. And than i realy need batch downloading!
What is Flickr afraid of?
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Sure would be nice to allow friends and family to batch download a given private set whether or not they have a flickr account.
Does anyone know if FlickrDown will do this?
I've gotten into the habit of sharing a set with a small email list. Much easier and secure than the formal invitation with Flickr signon.
Thx,
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yes, yes, yes.
I am also looking for that feature. Download a set or mark some pics and download them with one click.
Otherwise this site still isn't usefull for sharing pics with friends, because they'll have to download all pics one by one, which sucks.
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creativexpert [deleted] says:
Flickr down rocks! Thanks for that.
It looks like the only way to download private photos is on your own account. There's an authenticate button that takes you to your login page, where you confirm that "it's you that pushed the authenticate button".
On giving your friends access to download ony some sets:
Not sure if there's multiple rss feeds per account? If so, you could give your friends JUST the feed for the one group they would care about. Stick that feed in any feed reader like Netvibes. Of course, this is the Geek2.0 way to do it.
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this tool is excellent for scraping all your images offa Flickr. however, one thing that would make it a killer app would be the ability for it also scrape any/all comments that have been added to each image. perhaps a .txt file with same filename as image.
and why stop there? it might also scrape the flickr metrics/details for each image:
- tag-stack,
- geotag coordinates,
- # of views,
- # of favs,
- (original) flickr upload date, etc.
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Count my vote in for batch downloading
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Batch downloading is the only important thing I miss from Flickr. However, its VERY important!
I really think that atleast all Pro users should be able to batch download their photos.
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i agree, batch downloading should be an option for pro users
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To the "stop complaining" people, there is NO good software for this on the Mac platform, FlickrBackup is as good as useless. I've tried numerous times to download sets with it (with terrible results, always a bunch of randomly missing photos); I tried again last night to download a set of 1,000 images (once individually and once as .zip) and both times it reported "success! all of your photos have been downloaded!" and gave me only 461 of the 1,000 photos...not even CLOSE! So frustrating! Please Flickr, FFS, make batch downloads by set, tag or date an option for Pro users.
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Buy a proper computer!
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Just putting in my vote for this feature. It's my one big gripe about Flickr - not only does it keep me from having my own copy of the information I input on the site (tags, descriptions, etc.) but it also means that Flickr is only half of my process for sharing photos with family and friends. I put them up so people can view them and search them, but they also want copies of my photos, so I wind up burning CDs or posting zip files to my website.
This feature would really make Flickr a full-service photo site. That, and having more control over sets - such as, being able to assign a date or keyword to a set, and then grouping and sorting your sets by the date or keyword.
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i agree, batch downloading should be an option for all users up to 200 files limit
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Yeah, this makes me nervous. I'm sure their fear is that allowing batch downloading will make it easier for people to switch to another photo service.
In the last couple of years, Flickr has emphasized how it is a safe and permanent place to store your photos, and that there was no fear of them being deleted. If Flickr is promoting itself as a "storage" service, shouldn;t we be able to get our property out whenever we want?
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Well, I don't think Flickr ever promoted itself as the place to send your valuable posessions and delete all other personal copies with no fears. That's a little short-sighted.
Plus if all you want are your photos, they do offer a cd or dvd option that does that, Zazzle or something?
Otherwise, for backing up the entire content of a photostream, comments, everything, considering there's no 3rd party tool that does it either, it could be that that's just a difficult thing to pull off.
still would very cool, tho.
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I totally agree!
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Peonza [deleted] says:
I agree, it can be done so that you can only download each individual sets one time per year as zip file. I hope this will be made in the future. I dont know why flickr cant be seen as a photo storage center. I already see flickr as a complete photo app to see, share and organize all my photos (original photos)
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My hard drive decided to die (even Drive Savers couldn't recover the data) in the process of backing it up.... so I'd REALLY like a batch download feature that works on the Mac, even if it was only a pro feature and only worked for our own photos.
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One solution for getting comment and caption data, is to go to the sets you want to save, display the comments, and then save the webpage, using your internet browser. Then save this with your backups so that if you had to, you could recover. Also if you can get a CD from flickr, it should save all the captions and such in the picture using the IPTC standard. When you view the pictures with any device that complies with that standard, including Flickr, you should be able to see the embedded caption.
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Problem with that is the comments happen per photo page. So even with only a few hundred photos, going to each one to save the web page would be excruciatingly time consuming. Not to mention each page saved that way creates its own folders for all the graphics and crap, so forget about navigation between images.
Some sort of self-contained navigatable web page of an entire photostream would be ideal, but I'm not holding my breath. Some sort of text dump with links to the images, like a long log file (standard format, readable in anything), would be better than nothing.
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Look... I am a pro user and I have a lot of private albums that I share with my friends. My friend recently told me about www.bubbleshare.com, and I feel as though I will start using this site instead because it is simply more practical than flickr for sharing pictures and downloading entire albums as zips.
I can't understand why no Flickr staff has ever responded to any of these batch download threads. Please tell us why!
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I use Picasa Web Albums (paid version) and even in its primitive state it already allows batch downloads. I'm tempted to move to Flickr, but without this I'm not sure it's worth it. I take a ton of pictures of friends and I want my friends to easily be able to view and download the pictures (as sets) without a Flickr account.
Now that Flickr supports sharing without an account I'm half way there, but I need for them to be able to batch download a set (or ideally also a subset in one zip file). One by one is just too cumbersome and most of the people I want to have to do this aren't sophisticated enough to want to deal with a 3rd party tool. They are also highly unlikely to register under Flickr (if I didn't want to store photos, I wouldn't - it's too much effort and risks SPAM).
I see a post 14 months ago from someone claiming to represent Flickr saying they were working on it, but it still seems to be nowhere.
Flickr???
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I second the idea of batch downloading.
It should be available free and unlimited for at least all pro users.
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I'm new to Flickr and had mistakenly assumed that batch downloading would be available; clearly it's not. What a disappointment.
I do hope this issue is addressed.
In the meantime I will look into suggested alternatives - thanks to those who've done so! :-)
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I got nothing to add except that Flickr staff told me I should post here if I think this is a feature worth having. I do think so, so I want to cast my vote! In the meantime, yeah, FlickrDown sounds like it should be fine, but still... :P
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Ditto what nyphot said.
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I too agree with nyphot said. Hopefully more and more comments will lead to an integrated batch download feature!
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I would love to see a batch download feature even if it's only for my own photos, which is what I want it for. I take a lot of pictures from my phone, and upload them and then delete them because of space constraints. Going through and downloading all my photos to my computer is going to be a pain.
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yes! pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaase, flickr! i would use the program way more if this were possible. if this does not become an option, i will switch to the first program i find that offers this feature. it really is a glaring oversight...
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Its not an oversight. Its been explicitly left out. Flickr doesn't bill itself as a backup service, although some say they once mentioned that.
There are plenty of online data services people can use to back up data, I agree that it would be a great feature, it would simplify things immensely, but lets not pretend that if Flickr doesn't provide the service we can't all find places to back up our data.
Besides for many of us who shoot RAW sometimes, backing up the jpegs we post to Flickr wouldn't be ideal. Better than nothing of course, but a backup should preserve the original.
If Flickr are going to offer a backup service they should do it right, allow attachment of RAW or DNG files to the jpegs and implement a "Backup Only" option for images I want to upload but not deal with viewing in my Flickr account.
Oh wait that's confusing. Maybe just a big "Gimme My Photos!" button instead? :D
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Come on Yahoo, batch multiple image download is the most important new feature you need to add next!!! We need to download by set or collection. because....
1. Flickr is no good as an archive, unless multiple images can be downloaded. Archiving is definitely a draw for pro users. Backup, backup backup elsewhere if batch download is not possible.
2. We cannot expect our family and friends to go through all the mouse clicks needed to download a set of images. If we only put up our best images, it is likely all would be downloaded.
p.s.
Having a separate utility program from Flickr, like the complement to uploadr, would be go a long way to improving batch download. problem.
thanks,
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javamind edited this topic 71 months ago.
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Batch downloading, and having all included and added metadata would be an AWESOME feature.
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Flickrdownloader works great for batch downloading (windows and mac) of your own pictures:
sunkencity.org/flickrbackup/
(if you download the most current mac version, you'll need Stuffit Expander to open it)
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The fireuplaoder plugin for mozilla 2 works great.
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fernemer [deleted] says:
The idea of a feature for burning photos with flickr was mentioned about two years ago - and still this feature doesn't exist. Even a batch download feature would be better than nothing.
When will flickr come up with such a feature?
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Batch downloading wouldn't be too bad,but it would take a while,because it's a lot of files to be uploaded.I mean,uless you have Cox or Comcast,it'll take a while.
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Bumb. Im looking for a batch downloading option aswell. Any official answers to this question?
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um, gang... flickr backup is a standalone program that will d/l defined batches, from one set to all, say, family pics... whatever you authorize.
sourceforge.net/projects/flickrbackup
and a discussion about it on flickr:
flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/44792/
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I really miss batch downloading. For example when I upload my photos from vacation and I want to share it with my friends and they want to download them and print them or backup. They have to click to one by one photo and save it. I already tryed it and afer third photo I had to put these photos to ftp. So for this purpose is Flickr uselesss.
I don't think that it is a good idea to use third party tool for downloading - it is very hard to describe the people how to use it and so on. The best way (from my point of view) is to enable to download either whole set or enable to choose which photo I want to download and after that by one button download one zip file.
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back to the beginning, QOOP should let you order prints from outside of the US too...
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What is the response as to why you cannot batch downlaod? I would not be surprised if it is deliberate, now that i've been moved from yahoo and would have to pay to access all my photos i want to download them all, but would take about 24 hours to do this. I feel cheated because it would not be difficult at all to add a batch downlaod feature and that should be the least they do now that they are charging for us to have access to more than 200 photos. The service should maybe be boycotted if they do not make this service available?
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FFS - Did you read this thread? Do any research at all? There are 3rd party download tools available (FlickrDown, FlickrBackup). If all you want is a once only 'get your photos back from Flickr' these tools are more than adequate. I believe you can also use some of the partner sites to get you photos onto CD / DVD.
How many options do you want?
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They're not "now" charging you. They've always charged to have access to all your photos. The free account limit was in place well before Yahoo photos was closed down.
There are, however, third party tools that will allow you to batch download all your photos if you want to do so. If you do a google search for Flickr Down or Flickr Backup, you'll find two such tools.
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psjt2 use one of the free standalone apps and life is good. unless you just like to complain that a solution already exists and it's not branded right...
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I have just lost a couple of months of folders. Fortunately the weren't too important but I had uploaded them to my pro account and it would have been great to have been able to download the set.
Come on Yahoo............... Flickr
Lets see some action
Peter
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Just a quick comment to say to Flickr, I'm one more person who would like a Mac friendly downloader with good options, that will download the largest size images with no loss of quality.
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Another vote for Batch Downloading. Being able to easily download selected members of a set, tag, or other search result would be fantastic!
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Read the thread. There are batch download tools available. If Flickr decided to provide this function, chances are they would create a standalone download tool, like the standalone uploader. They might choose to call it FlickrDown or FlickrBack. So after years of waiting, you'd find nothing had actually changed.
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another one for batch downloading!!!please yahoo, insert this option!!!after this operation, flicrk will be perfect!!
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No point in Flickr devs wasting hours coding. Just use Flickr Edit.
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I actually support a native batch downloader. I've heard of too many people having problems with the 3rd party apps. Besides it's the sort of option that make sense on a photo sharing site. If I want my mom to have an entire batch of photos, I'm not going to bother her emailing her the link to a batch downloader and explaining to her how to use it. That isn't convenient or simple.
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I'd love a batch downloader tool, hopefully with some limits as to who can download your stuff. I'd probably set it so that only family and friends can do batch downloads, but it would be very convenient for someone like my mom to save photos she likes from my sets.
What's the easiest 3rd party app to use to do that now? (for a mac)
Originally posted 49 months ago.
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(Jessica) edited this topic 49 months ago.
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Flickr Edit
There's a way to use iPhoto (the most recent version), too.
Posted 49 months ago.
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I thought Flickr Edit only let you download your OWN sets. Will it let you download sets from friends?
No one in my family has the newest iPhoto yet, but that's good to know.
Posted 49 months ago.
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>>I've heard of too many people having problems with the 3rd party apps.
Do you really expect a native downloader to be trouble free?
Have you by any chance heard of anyone having trouble with the Flickr uploader? ;-)
Posted 49 months ago.
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No, I don't think so. You know, Googling "Mac Flickr batch downloader" might expedite your search for such an app. ;-)
Yea, I know. But I think downloading is an easier best to tackle than uploading. ;-)
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I did try google, but since people are talking about it here its more useful to get a recommendation from someone who's actually used one of these. For example, that google search did NOT turn up anything about iPhoto 9 (probably because its only a small part of what it does), but it was very useful in this thread to find out it has that feature.
Posted 49 months ago.
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Flickr Edit on XP was useless for me. Good ability to select photos, which download OK, but sometimes omits tags from the IPTC data and always omits the photo description.
Originally posted 49 months ago.
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Buckeye. edited this topic 49 months ago.
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I agree that this feature should be added. I'd like family to be able to batch download a set I send them a guest pass for. No one wants to download each image one by one.
Posted 45 months ago.
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I'm amazed that Flickr hasn't done anything about batch/set downloading given the number of people who have asked for it. Particularly since most of the people who are asking have paid Pro accounts.
Posted 45 months ago.
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Having a Pro account doesn't give you any more influence on this site than having a free account. The benefits of being a pro are simply in the features accessible to you.
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Isn't this is a case of damned if they do / damned if they don't ? There are already third-party applications to download everything in your account, and Flickr provides an API to make it easy for programmers to make third-party application to do this.
So lets say Flickr spends the time and money to develop their own batch download program, duplicating whats already out there, and using tools they already give away. Lets say they charge $25 per set on CD.
Do you honestly think that people are going to pay for something they already can get for free. On the off chance that people actually did pay for the service, the third party tools that are already out there are going to evolve to do what Flickr is doing and undercut them. They can do this because Flickr has already given them the API for free.
Originally posted 45 months ago.
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SteelToad edited this topic 45 months ago.
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Id like a batch option also, paying for a pro account you can treat this as a storage facility as well as a community and showcase website
If I'm storing my images here Id like easy access to them also please
Posted 45 months ago.
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I agree, even offering a once-per-year only batch download or "mail me a tape" feature would be huge vs. potentially losing what could be 10, 20 or more years worth of data.
Posted 42 months ago.
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there are standalone desktop miniapps you can get for free that do full or partial backups, mass downloading YOUR content only.
simply google "flickr backup" and "flickr bulk download" and you will be surprised what's available for both pc and mac. i've used a couple on both platforms. they work and are free. flickr doesn't need to duplicate this dev effort already done by others and donated.
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+1 for batch downloading!
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