Flickrapi and photos of a specific user with Python

Question

Hey, guys, all right?

I need to get some pictures of a specific FLICKR user and with a specific description for a college job. I’m still learning how to program, so I don’t really know how to do it, I tried to read the API guidelines, but I didn’t get it right. The most I could download were some photos with a specific "keyword", but the content doesn’t exactly match what I need. I tried to put several Keywords or try to add the photographer’s name, but I could not download any photo. I believe it would solve the problem if I pulled only the photos of a specific user with the description I need, it is possible to do this with the flickrapi or other api?

#id of the marcozeroconteudo: 152991702@N05

Here send an example photo I need to download. And the descriptions of the text are these:

Marco Zero Content Suape,16 August 2018. Atlantico Shipyard South. Credit: Keila Castro/MZ Content

Her tags are: Suape, Estaleiro, Atlantico Sul

import flickrapi
import urllib
import urllib.request
from PIL import Image
from tqdm import tqdm
from keras.preprocessing.image import ImageDataGenerator

# image.load_img()
#id da marcozeroconteudo: 152991702@N05

# Flickr api access key 
flickr=flickrapi.FlickrAPI('MINHA_API_KEY', 'MINHA_API_SECRET', cache=True)


N_MAX = 500
keyword = 'Estaleiro Altantico Sul'


PHOTOs = flickr.walk(text=keyword,
                     tag_mode='all',
                     tags=keyword,
                     extras='url_c',
                     per_page=108,           # may be you can try different numbers..
                     sort='relevance')

urls = []
for N, PHOTO in tqdm(enumerate(PHOTOs)):
    
    url = PHOTO.get('url_c')
    urls.append(url)
    
    # get 50 urls
    if N > N_MAX:
      break
print (urls)


# Download image from the url and save it to '00001.jpg'
#urllib.request.urlretrieve(urls[0], '00001.jpg')
RESIZE_OPTION = Image.ANTIALIAS #Image.NEAREST, Image.BICUBIC

for i in range(N_MAX):
  fname = f'img_{keyword}{i}.jpg'
  urllib.request.urlretrieve(urls[i], f'img{keyword}_{i}.jpg')
# Resize the image and overwrite it

image = image.open(fname) 
image = image.resize((256, 256), RESIZE_OPTION)
image.save(fname)

Thanks in advance for the help,

Answer 1

Repurposing your code

Importing the necessary libraries:

import flickrapi
import urllib.request
from PIL import Image

Authentication:

api_key = u'API_KEY' # passando em formato unicode
api_secret = u'API_SECRET' # passando em formato unicode
flickr = flickrapi.FlickrAPI(api_key, api_secret, cache = True)

Tags that will be searched:

tags = ['Suape', 'Estaleiro', 'Atlântico Sul'] 
photos = flickr.walk(tag_mode='all',
                     tags = tags,
                     extras='url_c',
                     per_page=100)

Taking the urls, in this case I only insert the 65535, which is a default of the url of the user you want to grab the images:

urls = []
for i, photo in enumerate(photos):
    user = '65535'
    try:
        url = photo.get('url_c')
        if user in url:
            urls.append(url)
    except:
        pass

Downloading the images and saving in the directory where the script is running:

for i, url in enumerate(urls):
    try:
        name = str(i) + '.jpg'
        urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, name)
        image = Image.open(name) 
        image = image.resize((256, 256), Image.ANTIALIAS)
        image.save(name)
    except:
        pass

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I have removed api_key and secret since the question has been updated so as not to harm the questioner.