How To Download Pictures From Flickr
Dominque Janoff
The winter has come to paint some pictures. There's a plenty of colors on her palette, her canvas is the whole shire. Even her brothers and sisters paints too, it is the winter, who can express herself the best. The mood of her pictures is the deepest.
2023 Photo 82/283: Maple seeds (those "helicpters" you see twirling in the breeze) and leaves begin to emerge from a branch of a tree in our yard. 2023 John M. Hudson jmhudson1.com
2023 Photo 126/239: Waiting for dinner at The Patron Cantina in Sandston, Va., across from the Richmond International Airport. Good Mexican food. Tomorrow morning early, I will be joining some friends to float down the James River for three hours to photograph bald eagles, ospreys, prothonotary warblers and other birds along the waterway. c.2023 John M. Hudson jmhu...@mindspring.com
2023 Photo 124/241: Over the years, the columbine we planted along a garden wall has spread as cover all around the yard in colors ranging from white to pink to purple to blue. c.2023 John M. Hudson jmhu...@mindspring.com
It was also the first time that I had stayed so long in the same Indian city. I knew all the beggars on the main ghats. As I was offered all the photos, I began to "steal" them so as not to make the same images again. With this technique, which is not one, of taking pictures without aiming, the waste rate is close to 100%.
The new "recent activities" (or at least new to me, as I'm not very perceptive of such things), informs when someone has left a comment or note or responded to your comment[s], but it doesn't update you when someone looks at your pictures.
If you go to "my photostream" you see above your first couple of pictures the number of how many pictures you have and how many views you've gotten. For example, mine says 759 pictures / 1,553 views. A few days ago it was at 1,444 views. So that's 9 views in a few days. I'm curious as to know a) which pictures were viewed and, if possible, b) who's looking at my pictures?
As someone who once wrote a blog, I know that certain counters will tell you how many visits you get in a day and how many pages viewed by each visit for free--to find out which pages were viewed you usually have to pay--I was just wondering, as someone who pays the Flickr pro rate, if I could get information like which pictures were viewed or if another member, pro or not, viewed them.
I find myself browsing plenty of other people's accounts and wouldn't mind them looking at my stuff--I've probably found their account by searching interests we may have in common (eg.: polar bears, Sisyphus, bicycles, Photoshop), so it might be nice if they were to see that I searched their stuff, looked at whatever specific picture, and they were able to determine some things about our connections.
I can understand that this might sound stalkerish, but I'd at least like to know what picture or pictures increased my viewership by 9 in as many days or less. I don't need to know who, but that would like icing on the cake that is which pictures, you know?
Anyway, I've searched the forum and haven't been able to find an answer so maybe I'm just blindly missing something, or maybe I found a flaw Flickr could update.
If anyone has any information, it'd be much appreciated.
Posted at 11:47PM, 14 December 2008 PST(permalink)
Since Flickr is a community photo sharing site, and not a private personal blog or web site, they have to weigh the value of info to show each of us about our photostream's activity, with the privacy of the members as well. They don't want members feeling that their every action is being monitored, probably because it might change the behavior of us in a negative way. Some anonymity is precious to many of us. That's why Flickr makes actions such as commenting or favoriting an image, a measurable thing. So it's our choice if we want to be "seen".
So Flickr lets you look at the stats for your images on the "stats", as far as views and where they came from (what pages the traffic to your pages came from). But that's it.
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With a Pro account you get access to some stats...under the "you" menu option at the top of the page there's an option called "Your stats". Click on that and there's info about referrers, which pictures have been viewed and other stuff.
It won't tell you who has been looking, but it will give you the URL they came from.
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Bear in mind also that if your photos are public they can be seen by anyone regardless of whether they are a flickr member or not.
So your 9 views could have come from 9 strangers that flickr couldn't identify if it wanted to. There's no reason why non-members should be afforded a degree of anonymity that members are denied.
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> I can understand that this might sound stalkerish
Hence a possible answer to the question, why doesn't flickr do this? I know some sites tell you who has viewed your photos (I think iPernity does, for example), but I don't think they're in the majority. Smugmug tells me how many views my photos get, but not from whom. With my page running under TextPattern, I get the dotted quad of viewers, but not specifics on who it was, but that's my personal domain.
Your question is fair, but the problem is that the various hosting sites get to make the decision. If you think flickr should provide that information (and others have posted that request, too), then maybe it's an idea and should be posted there in one of the threads already requesting it. It's up to you.
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I am a new learner of python, recently want to create a small python application that can collect photos from flickr based on different search input. (eg: if i input "dog", it will download all dog images from flickr)
I have applied my key and secret for flickr API, I just don't know what to do next with flickr.photos.getSizes in python to download photos. Like, how to call this method in python? (and I noticed required arguments for this method are keys and photo_id, how to get photo_ids based on search input "dog")
I have some photographs of 50 megapixel size saved as 16-bit-per-channel PNG. The file size is between 150 megabytes and 200 megabytes. If the size is greater than 200 megs then I shrink the photo to get it under that limit. I upload using the "new" Uploadr page at www.flickr.com/photos/upload/
Normally uploading such files is slow, but works. My Internet connection has a theoretical speed of one gigabit per second and in practice the photo is transferred to Flickr's servers in about ten seconds. That's the time it takes for the little circle to move round and become "full" in the Uploadr page. On a slow connection you can see time-outs before the file has uploaded, but that's not what happens here.
Instead, the circle completes and changes to the Flickr red and blue dots moving from side to side. I believe this indicates the file has been uploaded and is now being processed on Flickr's servers. But it doesn't complete; after about thirty seconds it changes to "This file failed to upload".
I can retry and retry -- each retry uploads the file again (which succeeds, at least according to the circle progress indicator) but then times out on the red and blue dots. Perhaps with a lot of luck I might get one image to be processed after retrying several times, but most of the larger ones are simply stuck. Smaller images (say 50 to 100 megabytes) work a bit better, and might require only one or two retries.
I can't help feeling that this behaviour is not helping Flickr any more than it helps me. By having to retry and retry I am uploading the image again and again, eating bandwidth, and also putting extra load on the servers as they try to process the upload before getting timed out.
Please could you increase the timeout period? It ought to be enough time to upload and process a large (nearly 200 megabyte) image.
(I have also tried the Windows Uploadr application, but that didn't work any better. Larger photos simply failed without trace and it managed to upload only the smaller ones.)
Edit: Resolved as of 22:45 UTC - October 3rd, 2023.
Posted at 12:13PM, 2 October 2023 PST(permalink)
Wilson Lam WLQ (staff) edited this topic 3 months ago.
If you do reproduce one of our images, we would appreciate your crediting the National Archives and Records Administration as the original source. For information about how to cite archival materials from the National Archives' holdings, please refer to Citing Records in the National Archives of the United States.
To download the high-res image from Flickr, visit one of the photos on our photostream: When viewing the photo you'd like to download, click on the "Action" dropdown menu above the top left corner of the photo.
Each photo uploaded to the US National Archives Flickr account is added with a machine tag. Machine tags provide information about images in a specific way, which allows programmers (and computers) to communicate with Flickr and access the information using APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). With an API, programmers can use this data to create mashups (i.e. combinations of different types of data and/or of data from different sources). For example, programmers can combine the data about our images on Flickr with our ARC datasets on data.gov to visualize our holdings in new and exciting ways.
Our machine tags follow the formula nara:arcid=[actual ARC id number]. The first part means it's from us (NARA), the second part means that we are providing the ARC ID number, and the third part is the unique ARC ID number itself.
Hi, I have BIG problem and nobody is responding from last week. I find out that there are really old pictures that are PUBLIC. I didn't used my profile for so many years. Now I logged in, I changed the Privacy ( I think) and than I deleted the profile. My pictures are still available and everyone can see them. I tried to sign up again with my yahoo email, but now it does not allow me. Now I made new account in order to ask you for help.
Thank you
Posted at 3:53AM, 19 March 2019 PST(permalink)