download all your flickr photos or how to migrate them
Once popular photo-sharing social-network site flickr hasn’t kept up with the latest developing innovations where the pace is set by the likes of instagram, Google+ photos, Facebook, even with Flickr’s past 3 months of upgrades. I will say this: Flickr is still the most fertile place to find Creative Commons photos. (Any contenders?)
How can you download your Flickr photos for both backup and migrating them for sharing elsewhere? Here’s a list of web apps and client softwares I’d found that can download flickr photos in bulk:
web app
- UnifyPhotos export.goyaka.com/ cf. thenextweb.com kudos and its mention of shutting down
- Social Photos social.foamsnet.com/ cf. www.redferret.net/?p=31037, vignesh.foamsnet.com/2012/02/social-photos-move-photos-between.html
Windows / Mac / Linux
Bulkr clipyourphotos.com/bulkr – w/ a paid Pro version for extra features
Windows / Mac
PhotoSync Companion www.photosync-app.com/photosync/en/downloads.html
Windows software
- Migratr www.callingshotgun.net/migratr/
- Flickr AutoDownloadr www.flickr.com/services/apps/7149/
- PicBackMan www.picbackman.com/
- FlickrSync flickrsync.freehostia.com/
Mac software
Photo Grabbr www.malarkeysoftware.com/projects_PhotoGrabbr.html
Java
- FlickrEdit – The Better Way to Backup and Access Your Flickr Photos sunkencity.org/flickredit
- FlickrDownload code.google.com/p/flickrdownload/
Firefox extension
- Flickr Original addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flickr-original-10049/
- smugglr.smugmug.com/ – migrates from Flickr, Zenfolio, Picasa and Phanfare directly to your SmugMug account
Chrome extension
DownFlickr chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/idiemcijhbenngdhkdiipmpkafnkbkeg
scripts
- phpFlickr phpflickr.com/
- python: migrate-flickr-to-picasa
- www.edparsons.com/2011/06/migrating-from-flickr-to-picasaweb/
other references
- instructions for using iPhoto ’11 http://jeradbitner.com/blog/2012/02/14/migrate-flickr-to-picasa-easily/
- Migrating 21k Pictures and Videos from Flickr to Picasa http://john.do/blog/migrating-21k-pictures-and-videos-from-flickr-to-picasa/
Any others to add?
Just this week I used flump (an adobe air app: http://code.google.com/p/onairbustour/wiki/flump) to download my flickr photos. My flickr pro is due for renewal next month and I’m not renewing… Currently trying out 500px.com and so far so good!
Awesome, that’s a great find – thanks for the link to Flump
@djchuang, thanks for adding PicBackMan. Just wanted to let you know that we recently release 3.0.0.0 version which adds multi threading to further improve the upload speed for simultaneous backup to multiple online services.