Questions tagged [flickr]
For questions about the web interface of Flickr
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How do I transfer my photos from Flickr to Picasa? [closed]
I have been using a Flickr Pro account for a few years, but find it really annoying that I don't maintain a local offline record of my albums and metadata with this. So I've decided to move to Picasa -...
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How can I get all of my photos off of Flickr?
I have decided to no longer pay for a Flickr pro account and I would like to batch download all of my photos I have stored there. Is there an easy way to do this?
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How can I download, in bulk, all of the photos in a Flickr "guest pass" URL set?
A photographer friend sent me a Flickr guest pass URL for an event my family also attended. I'm interested in downloading most (might as well be all) of the photos in the set. However, I'm not ...
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Why doesn't Flickr love me?
I was going to ask why my upload never finished, but this was more interesting:
x-flickr-loves-you: 0
This is an actual HTTP header returned by the URL https://s.yimg.com/pw/combo/1/3.11.0 during ...
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Add non-Google login option to Flickr account
I signed up to Flickr using my Google account. This has become a major usability headache since I moved to China: While Flickr itself is not blocked here, Google's authentication redirect dance (which ...
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Bulk download of images from Flickr?
I want to retrieve some/most of my pictures from Flickr, lost a bunch when a drive went bad. I can't find a way to easily download images other than one at a time.
I looked into something called ...
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Linking Flickr to Facebook
I'd like the photos I post on Flickr to be available on Facebook, ideally appearing as a status update on my wall. I tried linking my Flickr account to Facebook on the extend tab but the permissions ...
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Is there a way to search Flickr photos by camera type?
Weekly, I tend to browse the Explore section or sometimes basic searches to see if I can reproduce any shots. To keep things realistic, I do not own a DSLR so a lot of shots are ignored. Is it ...
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Does Flickr have support for private URLs?
Picasa Web Albums lets me give out a private URL to view an album. Is a similar feature available in Flickr?
I know I can adjust permissions based on the contact level, but I'd like to give semi-...
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What, exactly, is a Flickr collection and why is it better than a set of sets?
This is what Flickr's FAQs have to say about collections:
How is a collection different than a set?
A set contains photos. A collection can contain sets (or other
collections).
Isn't ...
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Upload a photo to Flickr from a URL
How can I upload a photo to Flickr from a URL?
Is this possible?
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Gravatar image in Flickr?
Can I link my Gravatar image to my Buddy Icon on Flickr using the web URL setting in my profile?
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Can I change my Flickr account to use Gmail instead of my Yahoo account?
I want to delete my Yahoo account (do you need to ask why?) but I realised it's used to login to Flickr. Flickr allows you to transfer your account to a different Yahoo account and allows you to ...
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Flickr has 300MB bandwidth limit for photos, what is the meaning of this?
300MB bandwidth limit for photos on flickr, how do they calculate that exactly?
Is it: size of image X number of views?
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How many pictures can I download from Flickr per day?
I need to download thousands of pictures for my thesis research and I was wondering if there is a Flickr download limit.
How many pictures can I download from Flickr per day?
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Quickly add tags in Flickr
Is there a faster way to tag photos in Flickr, one at a time, besides pressing "tag" and typing then pressing the "next" link?
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Hide titles on Flickr display
Our Flickr images all have "junk" titles that were created by our camera (ie: "IMG_O123"). Is there a way to hide the title when people view your photos?
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How can photos in one flickr account be "seen" in another one?
I took 382 photos for a martial arts school that my children attend, opened a flickr account and created a set for them. The school has its own flickr page, which is linked from the school's website. ...
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Quality of printing from free Flickr account
I have a free Flickr.com account. As you may know, the resolution of the images in the free account is limited to 1024 pixels. It is my understanding that Flickr stores the full resolution picture, ...
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Is there a simple way to attribute a CC image on flickr?
To legally reuse a CC image from Flickr, you must attribute properly the source and license, as explained on this blog: http://librarianbyday.net/2009/09/28/how-to-attribute-a-creative-commons-photo-...
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How to search on Flickr with advanced filters like portrait, > x mega pixel etc.?
Flickr has an advanced search page, but it does not allow to specify search filters like minimal mega pixels, minimal dimensions or orientation (portrait vs. landscape) etc. Is there is some more ...
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Transfer photos from Flickr to Google Drive without downloading [closed]
Is there a way to transfer my photos from Flickr to Google Drive without downloading all the data onto my computer - maybe using a Web Service?
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Flickr upload by email to Tumblr
Is it possible to upload an image to Tumblr over Flickr by email feature?
It looks like Flickr is offering that but it's not working for me:
(Login required)
http://www.flickr.com/blogs.gne
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Find photo info page for Flickr profile image
Given a Flickr static image (like http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8283/7753425102_02f23b5a21.jpg), I know how to find the info page for that image (http://www.flickr.com/photos/75151585@N07/7753425102/),...
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Queue photo uploads to Flickr
I would like to do a 365 project on Flickr, but don't really want to upload my pictures one/day, but rather do a series of uploads in a queue, or at least with programmable publications dates, so that ...
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How to get photos of a Flickr group organized
Is there a way to organize photos of a Flickr group? Now the pictures in our group are just one stream. For an individual account you have sets and collections.
UPDATE: A lot about this in the Flickr ...
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Flickr to Picasa migration on a Mac [closed]
I am looking for a way to migrate all of the photos from a Flickr account to a Picasa (soon to be Google Photos) account. I would prefer not to have to download all of the files to my local hard drive ...
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Flickr available only through phone. Can't reset password
I can access the account from my phone, but I'm not able to save any pictures. I can't access my account from the web because I created it using Google. Then when I didn't know how to get my pictures ...
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How can I separate my Flickr non-friend contacts feed from my Flickr friends feed?
I can get an RSS feed of my contact's photos via http://www.flickr.com/photos/friends/ , at a URL of the form:
http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_friends.gne?user_id=<MyUserId>@N00&...
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How do view Flickr.com using the OLD style, consistently & automatically?
I know there is a "secret" way to display pages from Flickr.com in the old style -- which the majority of old users preferred.
How do I consistently and automatically view pages in this style?
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Is there any way to get a Flickr image of custom dimensions?
There are several custom sizes offered by Flickr available here, but is there any way to get an image of custom dimensions? Say for an example I want an image which should be of 32x32px.
This is ...
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Retrieving my Flickr password
A good year or so ago, I set up a Yahoo/Flickr account for myself mainly to reserve my username. I've tried logging in again and can't remember my password at all! Stupid of me, I know, but it's OK ...
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Flickr and/or Yahoo account for a company or institute
I want to set up a Flickr page for an institute, but if want to fill in the sign up form I have to fill in birthdate, gender, surname and so on. Should I fill in fake data or is there a smoother way?
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What are those image tags that appear in Facebook comments and Flickr photo descriptions?
I have seen some strange text in some Facebook comments
Some random comment made by a user followed by some machine generated tag
[cid:[email protected]]
While searching for such ...
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Downloading 270,451 pictures from Flickr
I need to download 270,451 pictures from Flickr. They are two years old (I have the IDs, and I need to download those specific pictures). I guess there is a download limit.
Do you think I can make it ...
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flickr Gadgets on Blogger
What I want is a way to attach Flickr photos and photo sets to individual posts on a blogger.com blog. I want to include all of the descriptive text, and possibly comments, roughly as it would appear ...
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Upload many photos from iPhone to Flickr
What's the easiest way to upload many photos from an iPhone to Flickr.
Email only allows 5 a time. Official app just 1!
I'd like to avoid transfering to desktop first if possible.
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Is there any way to select multiple photos in a Flickr Album?
Is there any way to select multiple photos in a Flickr Album? I have 1 album with three different cameras, so they are very out of order. I want to select 3-6 at a time and move them to another part ...
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How to get "public but unlisted" privacy in Flickr?
Is there any way to make Flickr Pro photos "unlisted" to random passers by, but let anyone with a link to the Collection access the photos without having to login?
I understand that's not really ...
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Does Flickr have support for transparant PNG images?
I tried uploading a PNG image to Flickr and after being uploaded I copied its link (enlarged version) but the image was JPG thus had no transparency.
I just moved to picasaweb to upload png images ...
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On Flickr, how do I set a photo location using latitude and longitude coordinates?
On Flickr, while browsing my photostream, I can click "Add this photo to your map!" to add location information to a photo. The "Add this photo to your map!" input field then allows locations to be ...
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How to download all photos that I uploaded to Flickr into my computer?
Related thread but for Microsoft Windows, my question is for Mac OS X 10.5.8
I found all tools only to upload mass photos from local computer to Flickr here, how can I download all of my photos ...
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Finding the exact URL of a Flickr photo given its ID
How can I automatically retrieve the exact URL of a Flickr photo when I pass the ID to the API?
I have the IDs of all pictures and I'm currently using the flickr.photos.getInfo method that takes the ...
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How do I sync my Facebook Friends contacts with Flickr contacts?
As of June , Flickr and Facebook are now connected such that any time I upload a Flickr Photo it gets posted to my feed.
Is there a way to use this same connection to sync contacts (or at least ...
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How to update date of multiple photos in Flickr?
I have uploaded 184 photos to Flickr, but the "date taken" of those photos are incorrect. I would like to batch update the dates instead of one by one. How can I do that in Flickr?
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What version of Leaflet does Flickr use? [closed]
As a user of the SmoothWheel Firefox extension, I sometimes come across apps that capture the scroll event but don't prevent it to propagate further, resulting in, for example, a map zooming while the ...
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Is it possible to search for images on Flickr using regular expressions?
I want to search for images on Flickr using regular expressions - e. g., (Yahoo|Google) ("Image search"|"Web search"). Does Flickr support any kind of regular expression searching (like Google Search)?...
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Make photo public but keep set/collection private in Flickr
I want to make a couple of photos public in a specific set, but when I do that, the set itself becomes visible in my profile. Obviously with just the photos I made public, but I don't want the set to ...
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How to move photos from Picasa albums to Flickr?
I am looking for a way to move my Picasa web albums to Flickr? I don't find downloading and uploading very easy.
Is there any website for this purpose?
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Is there a way to batch edit all private photos on Flickr?
I'd like to add tags to all private photos on my Flickr account. Is there a way to do this in the Organizr or using a 3rd-party application like h4ppierphotos?