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

• Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) Beta 1
• Mac or Windows Operating System (see AIR system requirements for specific version information)

Download

Download flump (requires Adobe AIR Beta 1)

Source

Source is in Flex 3 and ActionScript 3. You can compile it using mxmlc (included in Flex 3 SDK Beta) or in Flex Builder 3 beta.

• View Source.
• Download Source.

Compiling

• Get source.
• Get source of ActionScript 3 Flickr Library (You have to link to source and not the SWC).
• Put flickr source in class path.
• Put common library in class path.
• Download ActionScript 3 corelib SWC and link to it.
• Compile.

Screenshots

flump UI

Usage

Download and install the application from the AIR file.

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

Note that this is the Flickr account ID and not the account user name.

You can find a user id for a specific account here.

For example, the Flickr user id for the bus tour's webcam account (onairtour) is 8576717@N04.

Once you have specified the flickr user id, 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.

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.

Basically, you have to either have a pro account, or set all of your images under a Creative Commons license.

(We will be adding support for specifying other image sizes)

Bugs / Feature Requests

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

Created by

Lee Brimelow Mike Chambers

//todo:

• More robust error checking and handling
• More options on how to name saved files