Comments on: FlickrTouchr.py – keep your flickr album and favourites on an iPod Touch or iPhone

By: Peters Linkschleuder – Der Schockwellenreiter

Peters Linkschleuder – Der Schockwellenreiter — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:23:17 +0000

[...] hier geht jemand einen anderen Weg (auch mit Hilfe von Python und FlickrTouchr): Backing Up [...]

By: bonny

bonny — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:20:43 +0000

Thank you! I’m on a Mac OS X 10.4 and flickredit did not back up my photos (even though it claimed success). Thought I would try this – thanks @larry rosenstein as well who fixed the python 2.3 issue..

By: Backing up Flickr « Petersen Did It

Backing up Flickr « Petersen Did It — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:26:52 +0000

[...] helped the trust in the “cloud” at all. So what can you do? Well Dan Benjamin took the FlickrTouchr script which allowed you to download a flickr set to your ipod and modified it to backup your all [...]

By: tozé

tozé — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:01:49 +0000

my favorites downloaded without problems, but when it got to my own photos it would spit back this

Failed to get original for photo id xxxxxxxxxx
Failed to retrieve photo id xxxxxxxxxx

I’m running the script on 10.5.6
Thank you

By: fozbaca

fozbaca — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 20:44:12 +0000

All my photos are downloading corrupted. I’m using Python 2.6.2 on Windows7RC. Any suggestions?

By: Larry Rosenstein

Larry Rosenstein — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 05:05:15 +0000

That error appears if you run the script on a Python older than 2.5. (OS X 10.4 ships with 2.3.x.) I got it to run on 2.3 by changing:

query = urlparse.urlparse(url).query

to:

query = urlparse.urlparse(url)[4]

By: Dennis Bonilla

Dennis Bonilla — Thu, 08 May 2008 03:31:07 +0000

I appear to only receive that error on a 10.4 machine. The script ran flawlessly on OS X 10.5.2. Thank you!

By: Dennis Bonilla

Dennis Bonilla — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:15:57 +0000

Is this resource still being maintained?
I ran into the following issue when trying to run it.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/Users/dbonilla/Desktop/pics/flickrtouchr.py”, line 222, in ?
url = flickrsign(url, config["token"])
File “/Users/dbonilla/Desktop/pics/flickrtouchr.py”, line 131, in flickrsign
query = urlparse.urlparse(url).query
AttributeError: ‘tuple’ object has no attribute ‘query’

By: colmmacc

colmmacc — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:52:11 +0000

Thanks for the bug report Paul, the fix is;

--- flickrtouchr.py.txt	2008-01-28 23:51:13.000000000 +0000
+++ flickrtouchr.py.txt 2008-01-28 23:49:52.000000000 +0000
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@
             # Grab the photos
             for photo in dom.getElementsByTagName("photo"):
                 # Tell the user we're grabbing the file
-                print photo.getAttribute("title") + " ... in set ... " + dir
+                print photo.getAttribute("title").encode("utf8") + " ... in set ... " + dir
                 # Grab the id
                 photoid = photo.getAttribute("id")

And I've updated the version online :-)

By: Paul Mison

Paul Mison — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:27:38 +0000

Nice script. I was planning to do this by having a Flickr set inside iPhoto, but this also lets you do things with other people’s photos (namely, your favourites), and it also saves me getting everything up and running, so I thought I’d give it a go.

However, it’s breaking on a photo of mine with a non-ASCII (UTF8) title, giving the error

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/Users/blech/Desktop/touchr.py”, line 288, in
print photo.getAttribute(“title”) + ” … in set … ” + dir
UnicodeEncodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t encode character u’\xed’ in position 3: ordinal not in range(128)

I’ve got a vague idea of how to fix it, and I may come back with a patch, but for now I thought I’d at least make you aware of the issue. Thanks for the script anyway (and you’re right about unmaintained libraries- well, Ruby’s Flickr libs are in disrepair too, so I’m not entirely surprised Python’s the same way).