Matt MacKenzie's blog

October 30, 2005

Flickr API for Java

I recently decided that I would like to have some kind of tool that I could run to backup all of my photos on Flickr. I basically wanted a directory containing a bunch of subfolders representing sets, with the original photos placed within. I also wanted all of the photos that I had not placed into a set to be downloaded.

Solution: flickrj.

Over the course of the weekend, I've become a developer on the flickrj "team". You gotta love open source :-) "Hey, maintainer. Are you going to fix bug x?" "No, user, I'm busy. Do you want to do it?".

So...if you are a Java coder, and want to do neat stuff with Flickr, do check out FlickrJ. My backup program is also up there, checked into flickrj's CVS repository.


Update: The actual backup application is here: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/flickrj/api/src/flickrj/samples/

Posted by Matt MacKenzie at 08:42 AM on October 30, 2005

Comments

Abhijit — 02:57 PM on December 13, 2005

Hello Matt,

Your nifty little program can be useful to me too.
I could not find it under flickrj's CVS - can you please let me know the path to it or the name? - I will check the CVS again.
Thanks a lot
Abhijit

Rutger — 03:59 AM on April 10, 2006

Is it me or does the latest flickrj download points to the wrong image server?

Matt: Seems ok to me...

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