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Updated Aug 12, 2008 by mikechambers
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flump  
Simple Flickr image downloader

Introduction

flump is a simple application that allows your to download all of the public photos for a specific Flickr account.

Application built for the Adobe on AIR Bus Tour.

Requirements

Mac and Windows

Adobe AIR 1.1 (Mac and Windows)

Linux

Adobe AIR Linux Alpha (Linux)

Download

Mac and Windows

Download flump (Mac Windows. requires Adobe AIR)

Linux

[ http://code.google.com/p/onairbustour/downloads/list?can=2&q=Flump&colspec=Filename+Summary+Uploaded+Size+DownloadCount Download flump] (Linux)

History

Version .91 (August 12, 2008)

Version .90 (August 11, 2008)

Version .90 (August 7, 2008)

Version .85 (August 9, 2007)

Source

Source is in Flex 3 and ActionScript 3. You can compile it using the Flex SDK or Flex Builder 3. Note, you must use the 3.0.2 version of the Flex SDK in order to compile the application. You can find more information here. You can find information on how to setup your development environment here.

Compiling

Usage

Download and install the application from the AIR file.

Once you have installed and launched the application, enter the flickr account ID or account name of the account that you want to download the images from.

Once you have specified the flickr user id or username, then you can optionally specify the folder that the images will be downloaded into. By default, images will be downloaded into a directory named flump on the desktop.

You can also specify how the downloaded files will be named.

Important

Currently, flump will only download the original image source, and can only do so, if the Flickr account owner has set their account permissions to allow the original images to be downloaded.

You can find more information on this in the Can I access my original Images question on the Flickr FAQ.

Bugs / Feature Requests

Please log any bugs and / or feature requests on the Issues page.

Created by

Lee Brimelow Mike Chambers

todo:


Comment by coderkind, Aug 09, 2007

Nice app!

Comment by harshdeep, Dec 01, 2007

Seems like the compiled .air provided here is not compatible with the latest AIR installation. I'm getting the installation error "This application requires a version of Adobe AIR which is no longer supported. Please contact the application author for an updated version." Would love to get an updated version.

Comment by lawrencejob1, Feb 23, 2008

I get the same..

Comment by outlan2...@woh.rr.com, Mar 09, 2008

Hey Mike,

This application is (was) awesome on Beta 1. Any chance you can put out an update? This is an extremely useful app...

Comment by mikechambers, Aug 07, 2008

I have just updated it for AIR 1.1. Sorry it took so long.

Comment by talkinhonky, Aug 08, 2008

This is a great tool! - Except there doesn't appear to be a way to specify a set of photos or to specify photos with a specific tag or to set a limit, or date uploaded range. I'd love to be able to download a set based on one of those criteria.

Comment by mikechambers, Aug 08, 2008

@talkinhonky

Good suggestion. I think I might be pretty simple to filter by tag as well as the other info. I might already be downloading all of that info anyways.

Ill look into it and see how easy it would be to add.

mike chambers

mesh@adobe.com

Comment by lupinehorror, Aug 09, 2008

hi i've attempted to install this on linux but with no success. i get an error message saying "sorry an error has occured". "the application could not be installed because the air file is damaged. try obtaining a new file from the application author". latest version of adobe air running on xubuntu 8.04. cheers.

Comment by ygallardo, Aug 09, 2008

I have the same problem with Adobe Air for Linux, the same error message, using Ubuntu 8.04.

Thanks.

ygallardo.

Comment by stephan.lamprecht, Aug 09, 2008

same here. seems not wo work with air for linux :-(

Comment by url.linq, Aug 09, 2008

Great tool. Thus far the only working flickr downloading tool I have been able to find.

A filter for downloading specific sets would or by tag would make this app perfect.

Comment by mikechambers, Aug 10, 2008

ill look into the linux issue.

mike

Comment by mikechambers, Aug 10, 2008

I think the linux issue is that I compiled the AIR file for AIR 1.1, but the AIR linux alpha is based on AIR 1.0.

Ill compile a 1.0 version of the AIR file and see if that fixes it.

mike

Comment by mikechambers, Aug 11, 2008

I just uploaded a version of Flump that will run on the Adobe AIR Linux alpha:

http://code.google.com/p/onairbustour/downloads/list

mike chambers

mesh@adobe.com

Comment by kimsmith, Aug 11, 2008

This was EXACTLY what I needed! My hard drive crashed last week and I lost everything. Thankfully, I had uploaded most, if not all, of my pictures to Flickr. It took a few hours, but I think I have my pictures back...it's not that it's slow...I just had over 2,000 pics! Thanks for creating this!!!!

Comment by hadto.net, Aug 12, 2008

the new linux version works great for me on xubuntu 8.04. thanks how difficult would it be to add account authentication for downloading pictures that are not public?

Comment by mikechambers, Aug 12, 2008

I am going to post a version with auth support very, very soon.

mike chambers

mesh@adobe.com

Comment by mikechambers, Aug 12, 2008

New version is posted (.91) with account authentication.

Comment by hadto.net, Aug 12, 2008

great! I spent the day trying to implement account authentication with only half way succeeding. Then without seeing this update in the comments I checked out a fresh code base for reference and started seeing all the new code. I was so tired by then I thought it was stuff I had written somehow but didn't remember writing. haha. Then I realized it must have been updated since the last time I checked out. this is a good lesson for me though, even though I failed at finding the solution, now I can compare where I fell short with a working copy

Comment by hadto.net, Aug 12, 2008

In trying to export a release build I get an error:

Error creating AIR file: 303: ERROR, flump.png

If take out the icon it builds just fine.

This is on OS X 10.5.4 with Flexbuilder3 and SDK 3.0

Comment by jmikuta, Aug 16, 2008

What should I do-- I type the name of my friend's Flickr account, identify it as first Username, second try with ID when Username doesn't work, and in both cases I get the message that it's an unknown user. I know I've got the name of the account accurate, that it is a Pro account, and that the person has marked their photos as public. Thanks.

Comment by mikechambers, Aug 16, 2008

@jmikuta

Make sure it is the correct username. The user name is not necessarily the name in the URL. If that doesnt work, email the username to me, and I will look into it.

mike chambers

mikechambers@gmail.com

Comment by cityparrots, Aug 18, 2008

I would like to back-up a Pool. Hope that will be possible

Comment by ehcloninger, Aug 20, 2008

I know this was a proof of concept, but are you open to feature suggestions? I've pulled down the code and looked at it, but I'm not sure I have the AIR and Web skills to pull off making the change myself.

I'd like to also pull down the data that I've associated with the image (i.e. title, description, tags, etc.). Not necessarily comments. Put the results in a single CSV or XML file or one file per image. Doesn't really matter. Once I have the image and data back on my local drive, I can run Perl or a custom C app on it.

Thanks for a cool app

Comment by mographer, Aug 22, 2008

wow was REALLY excited to find this after hours of searching for something like this for mac os...

Installs fine - runs - but when I instruct it to work - it only downloads ONE image?

gives me this notice: "Downloads complete. 1 of 988 images downloaded from Flickr." What about the other 987 images?

any suggestions? thanks!

Comment by gabriel.herrera, Aug 25, 2008

Great app! Does just what I needed.

thanks!

Comment by manleyaudio, Sep 01, 2008

This is exactly what I was looking for! It downloaded all my images in one fowl swoop!

Works Great on: Max os X 10.5.3 intel Air Ver 1.1 Flump .91

Thanks for a great resource!

Comment by siris603, Sep 03, 2008

Good Morning. I have a problem downloading. I click "start flump" and I get for example "Downloads complete. 0 of 147 images downloaded from Flickr". I tried with several usernames.

Any suggestions?? Thanks!

Comment by sush...@gmail.com, Sep 13, 2008

works great.

but i wish it would pick up the file names for images... that would really work very nicely.

Comment by boss...@fuaim.com, Sep 27, 2008

i have the same issue as siris603; no error messages, just "Downloads complete. 0 of <foo> images downloaded from Flickr". The value of "foo" seems correct, so it is connecting but not downloading anything... Suggestions?

Comment by skonovski, Oct 02, 2008

hi thanks for the app.

unfortunately it is not downloading any images although it was installed successfully on my mac leopard... any advice? thanks

Comment by mikechambers, Oct 11, 2008

It only downloads images you have permission to download.

mike

Comment by gorangard, Nov 26, 2008

I use proxy server to get to internet ... and I can't use Flump ... :(

Comment by nadecel, Dec 15, 2008

thank you. filenames and tags capture would be fantastic, as would be filtering by folder, date, and/or tag....

Comment by twinsenw, Dec 31, 2008

Can Flump download flickr videos I have uploaded?

Comment by michael.p2q2, Jan 06, 2009

This is a great tool! I too had a hard drive failure and this is saving my skin (to the tune of 4,255 images!)

A suggestion would be that when it downloads the pics, to put them in folders as they are in sets... it would save a lot of work after pulling them all down. Two thumbs up for the way it is now though, many thanks!

Comment by BOBXNC, Jan 24, 2009

Thanks a ton. This is a great tool. I also had a crash and lost versions of about 6 months worth of photos. This will save a lot of editing time.

Comment by billgloveruk, Feb 19, 2009

This tool looks really promising. Just wondering if it supports downloading of metadata as well as the images?

Comment by FSXFlightman, Mar 11, 2009

Just what the Dr ordered~! An indispensable tool and easy to use. Highly recommended.

My daughter inadvertently dropped a 500G external HD which was housing her pictures. We installed in the case another HD and presto, she has her pcitures once again.

Thanks People!

Comment by tommune, Apr 17, 2009

It seems to work for users with a small number of images...but for a large number of Flickr pages (220 or so, times 18, so almost 4000 images) the number it counts up to is zero, and it either stops early and freezes, or it just keeps counting forever, past 4000. Never gets to the download bit. It does fine on someone with 16 pages of images.

No problems with access to images or anything. Is it a fixed size array or something -- I assume it's dynamic. Tried it on Vista, XP.

Comment by tommune, Apr 17, 2009

In Vista, it works sometimes, then other times, it counts up, though the second number is zero, then it just stops. I waited for 15-20 minutes just to be sure, closed out all other apps, etc.

Ever have it just seize up with large number of files? It randomly seems to stop between 50 and 1165 (the highest it ever got).... is there an array limit, or is it completely dynamic?

Comment by g0dd4rd, May 13, 2009

@Mike:

Is the issue with damaged .air on OS X related to: a) version of AIR Runtime installed? b) version of AIR SDK used to create the .air vs. what's used in app descriptor? c) strength of the RSA encryption while creating the cert? d) anything else?

Its quite frustrating to have this issue even AIR's been here for 2 years...


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