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 http://export.goyaka.com/ cf. thenextweb.com kudos and its mention of shutting down
- Social Photos http://social.foamsnet.com/ cf. http://www.redferret.net/?p=31037, http://vignesh.foamsnet.com/2012/02/social-photos-move-photos-between.html
Windows / Mac / Linux
Bulkr http://clipyourphotos.com/bulkr – w/ a paid Pro version for extra features
Windows / Mac
PhotoSync Companion http://www.photosync-app.com/photosync/en/downloads.html
Windows software
- Migratr http://www.callingshotgun.net/migratr/
- Flickr AutoDownloadr http://www.flickr.com/services/apps/7149/
- PicBackMan http://www.picbackman.com/
- FlickrSync http://flickrsync.freehostia.com/
Mac software
Photo Grabbr http://www.malarkeysoftware.com/projects_PhotoGrabbr.html
Java
- FlickrEdit – The Better Way to Backup and Access Your Flickr Photos http://sunkencity.org/flickredit
- FlickrDownload http://code.google.com/p/flickrdownload/
Firefox extension
- Flickr Original https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flickr-original-10049/
- http://smugglr.smugmug.com/ – migrates from Flickr, Zenfolio, Picasa and Phanfare directly to your SmugMug account
Chrome extension
DownFlickr https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/idiemcijhbenngdhkdiipmpkafnkbkeg
scripts
- phpFlickr http://phpflickr.com/
- python: migrate-flickr-to-picasa
- http://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?
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7 responses to “download all your flickr photos or how to migrate them”
download all your flickr photos or how to migrate them http://t.co/MFp1I5o9
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
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@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.