Development of Offlickr has moved. Please see Offlickr's Google Code page. Information below is here for archival purposes.
Offlickr is a command-line backup tool for Flickr. It allows to download photos, photo metadata (title, tags, description, notes), and photosets.
It is written in Python and uses Beej's Python Flickr API.
Version 0.10 (2008-03-28) (and its documentation) is available for download. In addition to the geo-location of the photo, it downloads privacy information with regards to it.
The usage is as follows:
Usage: Offlickr.py -i <flickr Id>
Backs up Flickr photos and metadata
Options:
-f <date> beginning of the date range
(default: since you started using Flickr)
-t <date> end of the date range
(default: until now)
-d <dir> directory for saving files (default: ./dst)
-l <level> levels of directory hashes (default: 0)
-p back up photos in addition to photo metadata
-n do not redownload anything which has already been downloaded (only jpg checked)
-o overwrite photo, even if it already exists
-L back up photo locations
-s back up all photosets (time range is ignored)
-w use wget instead of internal Python HTTP library
-c <threads> number of threads to run to backup photos (default: 1)
-N dry run
-v verbose output
-h this help message
Dates are specified in seconds since the Epoch (00:00:00 UTC, January 1, 1970).
Version 0.11 - 2008-10-26
Here is an example of use from version 0.3:
hugo@jibboom ~/Offlickr% python Offlickr.py -i 79818469@N00 -f 1135639025 -t 1135640025 Backing up 4 photos 1/4: 77756911: Driving down to Thonon Saved as dst/77756911.xml 2/4: 77756772: Weird vehicle Saved as dst/77756772.xml 3/4: 77756643: Blue dog Saved as dst/77756643.xml 4/4: 77756495: Vishal sleeping Saved as dst/77756495.xml
Old versions: