Flickr Video Downloader

readme.md

$ pip install requests flickrapi lxml requests-cache

main.py

from flickrapi import FlickrAPI
from lxml import etree
import requests
import shutil
import requests_cache

requests_cache.install_cache("flickr_cache")


key = "<key>"
secret = "<secret>"
user = "<user id>"


api = FlickrAPI(key, secret, cache=True)


def download_file(url, name):
    local_filename = "out/" + name + ".mp4"
    with requests.get(url, stream=True) as r:
        with open(local_filename, "wb") as f:
            shutil.copyfileobj(r.raw, f)

    return local_filename


def get(id_, name):
    print(f"Downloading {id_} as {name}.mp4")
    url = f"https://www.flickr.com/video_download.gne?id={id_}"
    download_file(url, name)


for thing in api.walk_user(user):
    id_ = thing.attrib["id"]
    rsp = api.photos.getSizes(photo_id=thing.attrib["id"])
    xml = etree.tostring(rsp).decode("utf-8")

    if "video" in xml:
        info_rsp = api.photos.getInfo(photo_id=thing.attrib["id"])
        date_str = "unknown-date"
        for photo in info_rsp:
            for info_blob in photo:
                if "taken" in info_blob.attrib:
                    splt = info_blob.attrib["taken"].split(" ")
                    date_str = splt[0] + "_" + splt[1].replace(":", "-")

        get(thing.attrib["id"], date_str + "_" + thing.attrib["title"] + "_" + id_)
    else:
        print(f"    Skipped {id_}")