Facebook Post - February 13, 2017 at 06:43PM
Question for Programmer Friends
(Flickr Is Holding My Data Hostage)
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QUOTE: "Flickr added hooks for outside developers well before most sites thought of offering an API (application programmers interface), and for a long time, exporting your Flickr media required working through one of those outside firms. As Flickr’s popularity declined, many of these services shut down or shifted away from Flickr. I can’t find any active ones that allow for reliable bulk export of images and videos." ~ By Glenn Fleishman, Macworld, Jan 5/17
MY DILEMMA: I have spent the past ten years documenting our life with Flickr. I definitely have backups of the photos, but there is no reliable way to export all the titles and sometimes lengthy descriptions (journal entries) I have entered over the years, as it is not included in the metadata when the file is downloaded. With Verizon's recent acquisition of Yahoo, I'm worried that Flickr will eventually disappear, so want to be proactive about preserving our memories. There is a program called BULKR, which downloads descriptions into individual text files (and says into metadata, too, but it doesn't). However, with over 36,000 photos, that would be A LOT of data entry to move my photos to another service or self-hosted site. Any suggestions of how I might pull the titles, descriptions and tags off of Flick with the photo (if this is even a programming possibility) would be appreciated!
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Facebook Post - February 13, 2017 at 06:43PM
Question for Programmer Friends
(Flickr Is Holding My Data Hostage)
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QUOTE: "Flickr added hooks for outside developers well before most sites thought of offering an API (application programmers interface), and for a long time, exporting your Flickr media required working through one of those outside firms. As Flickr’s popularity declined, many of these services shut down or shifted away from Flickr. I can’t find any active ones that allow for reliable bulk export of images and videos." ~ By Glenn Fleishman, Macworld, Jan 5/17
MY DILEMMA: I have spent the past ten years documenting our life with Flickr. I definitely have backups of the photos, but there is no reliable way to export all the titles and sometimes lengthy descriptions (journal entries) I have entered over the years, as it is not included in the metadata when the file is downloaded. With Verizon's recent acquisition of Yahoo, I'm worried that Flickr will eventually disappear, so want to be proactive about preserving our memories. There is a program called BULKR, which downloads descriptions into individual text files (and says into metadata, too, but it doesn't). However, with over 36,000 photos, that would be A LOT of data entry to move my photos to another service or self-hosted site. Any suggestions of how I might pull the titles, descriptions and tags off of Flick with the photo (if this is even a programming possibility) would be appreciated!
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