After downloading all the different resolutions Flickr has, it ... • Aaron Parecki

Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/ • Oct 14
I just finished downloading my whole Flickr account to a static website. Now browsing around it is much faster than looking at the same photos on Flickr, and it makes me want to get back to actually organizing my photos again!

After downloading all the different resolutions Flickr has, it turned into 255gb on disk. Not bad, would even fit on a thumb drive.

Here's the source if you want to try this yourself!

https://github.com/aaronpk/Flickr-Archivr

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Fri, Oct 14, 2022 10:00am -07:00

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- Sven
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- Nk twitter.com/NikolasWise
  
  pipe those puppies to aws s3 and keep a backup on cold storage and you have flicked your own flickr. Pro tip tho they only store the one main resolution one, then generate and store the other resolutions on request as a cache
  
  Fri, Oct 14, 2022 11:24pm +00:00 (via brid.gy)
- Sam Grover twitter.com/samgrover
  
  That's awesome. I keep wishing Flickr will turn around, but tools like this are going to be really handy to move off there. Thanks!
  
  Fri, Oct 14, 2022 6:24pm +00:00 (via brid.gy)
- Nelson Minar twitter.com/nelson
  
  Curious where you end up. I gave up and accepted Google Photos' loving embrace. The AI stuff is pretty great.
  
  Fri, Oct 14, 2022 5:32pm +00:00 (via brid.gy)
- Alex @ Plane Sailing Games twitter.com/NAlexWhite
  
  Wow, I remember when it was pretty good getting a 2Gb one, and 16gb was pushing it!
  
  Fri, Oct 14, 2022 5:22pm +00:00 (via brid.gy)
- Aaron Parecki twitter.com/aaronpk
  
  It's really not bad, like $20-30 for a 256gb thumb drive from reputable sources. They don't have to be as fast as the SSD in a laptop.
  
  Fri, Oct 14, 2022 5:21pm +00:00 (via brid.gy)
- Alex @ Plane Sailing Games twitter.com/NAlexWhite
  
  255gb sounds like an enormous thumb drive! That’s like the base level HD for a whole laptop (from some companies…)
  
  Fri, Oct 14, 2022 5:19pm +00:00 (via brid.gy)

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