Flickr.com has decided to ban Flickrdown. Their position is that Flickrdown can be used to download copyrighted images and is therefore bad. Of course this is ridiculous. Every browser can also be used to download copyrighted images and yet they don’t ban the browsers. Please complain and complain loudly to Flickr.com that Flickrdown should not be banned.
Recently a friend started using Flickr which is a great service. I personally like to save pictures locally and selecting them one at a time to download was too much of a hassle so I whipped up this program so I could download them more easily.
It's free to use and download.
It requires Microsoft .NET 2.0. If you don’t already have that installed you can download it here
Download:
You can download the installer by clicking the link below.
THERE IS NO WARRANTY HERE. USE THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK! THERE IS ALSO NO SUPPORT!
Version History:
- 2.43 – 2007/06/24
- Fixed issue with [*All Photos*]
- 2.42 – 2007/06/23
- Integrated latest Flick.NET library which seems to have fixed issues with downloading some images
- Relaxed naming of files
- 2.41 – 2007/03/22
- Fixed source URL change on flickr.com so images uploaded after 3/1/2007 will download
- 2.40 – 2006/10/05
- Added history to search and folder
- Added support for gif and png originals
- Added settable download limit
- 2.30 – 2006/04/09
- increased limit from 100 to 500 photos per set, tag, etc.
- 2.20 – 2006/02/04
- fixed photo links
- 2.10 – 2005/12/10
- fixed bad download URL (i hope)
- 2.00 – 2005/11/23
- updated to the release version of .NET 2.0
- added support for tags
- added support for groups
- added support for private images
- 1.30 – 2005/06/26
- if the user name had a space in it the link to the picture was wrong.
- 1.20 – 2005/06/18
- If you didn’t acutally expand the photos (clicking on the name of the set) it would download the “all photos” category. That’s now fixed.
- 1.10 – 2005/06/05
- No files are overwritten. If a file of the same name already exists Flickrdown will append "-fd????" where ???? is a number. This allows Flickrdown to download pictures that have the same title to from the same set.
- 1.00 – 2005/05/02
- Released
Great!
The best tool for downloading flickr picture!
Hope it will be maintained for a long time!
Hi, great program!
However, I had a virus with my Windows XP and reloaded with a backup file from Acronis. Now when I install flickrDown, it doesn’t show any text boxes, so I cannot enter anything! Also, the authenticate button doesn’t do anything, even if I enter the info in the setting. Any idea what the problem is?
Also, may I suggest adding a history feature, so we can go back to previous groups/searches?
Thanks!
So does anyone know for sure??…If i download Greggman’s program, will it work for the retrieval of my Yahoo! pics/albums that vanished from Yahoo! months ago and are now supposidly in Flickr
it works perfectly for me.
thanks
you rock!
Hi
My operating system is Xp pro
I use this fine on my laptop but on my home PC it installs perfectly but after selecting the pictures to download I get an error in a box saying An exception occurred during WebClient request.
I tried installing Microsoft.Net 2.0 again but with the same results.
Any ideas how I can resolve this problem ?
Thanks for any assistance
Big thank you for this very useful program
cheers
Nadia
flickrdown is a great tool.
sometimes my internet connection suddenly become disconnected, but at that moment I am at 85% of the whole downloading. so i have to download from very beginning again in order to get the complete photo set. Does flickrdown have the function of continuing downloading? maybe it has, but I am not aware of.
awesome and thank you. it worked perfectly. just what i have been looking for. you saved me a lot of time and anxiety. bless you!
I swear I looked for something like this 2-3 months ago and found nothing. I resorted to right-click saving almost 300 photos. I look again today, and I find this! I don’t know how I missed it the first time, but this works great and I’m glad I found it. Thanks a lot!
Is there a limit to how many sets you can show? I can not see the two newest sets i’ve added.
I always upload the originals to flickr. But this is reducing the size. Help.
Are you sure you your uploader is set to keep the largest size?
If you go to flickr in your browser, go to one of the images in question, is the original size available?
this thing downloaded exactly 10 pictures out of 300…uh..it doesn’t work for shit…
I love the program, but it’s hard to use if it stops downloading when there is a problem like, “Flickr API temporarily unavailable” and “Timeout”. It should work through these temporary issues. I see the program is no longer being maintained. Could you open source it so I could make this fix? If not, do people know about another good alternative? Thank you.
Is there an equivalent version for MAC Os please ?
DOWNLOAD ANY OF MY IMAGES FROM FLICKR AND YOU WILL HAVE A FUCKING LAWSUIT ON YOUR HANDS YOU BLOODY THIEF !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Will this let me download originals even if they are unavailable? Really would find that useful.
WONDERFUL APP!!! I owe you a few hours of my life.
Thanks a 2000lbs
JOhnny
The api has expired so application will not work
does anyone know where the api is located so i can try resolve this?
It looks like the API key for Flickrdown has expired.
Is the source code available?
This is a great app, it would be a shame to lose it over an expired key.
Thanks!
You know, people like Barbara Jones make me laugh. They post their precious images on Flickr, in the most public forum of all (probably to stroke their massive egos) and then they pretend that they want their pretty pictures kept private, not used without their permission, blah, blah, blah. If you don’t want your photos in the public domain, don’t post them on Flickr, retard!
This was a GOOD decision by Flickr. I support it 100%. What you are doing is unethical and a misuse of copyrighted material.
You are right. There is not difference between seeing picture online or offline (downloaded by FlickDown or in the browser cache). The problem if on the usage, depending on the licence on the pictures.
The problem if the usage, not the tools.
Thread on the subjet on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/123521/
I have not done anything unethical. I have never used Flickrdown to download copyrighted images. I use it for what I wrote it for and that is to download pictures friends take at parties I attended. By having Flickr ban Flickrdown you have prevented people from being able to download even their own pictures. You are the unethical party in this case. You don’t ban phones just because some people can plan crimes on them.
Thanks for your great tool (even if I am no more able to use it since I moved to Linux …) !
@Next69 > I left a comment there. I hope I won’t get banned for that !