tomsabin / flickr-fetch

Ruby script: fetches a Flickr photoset and dumps to MongoDB

flickr-fetch

Fetches a Flickr photoset and dumps to a database

Dependencies

FlickrRaw

Library to easily access Flickr's API

Install with gem install flickraw

Expected reponse from flickr.photosets.getPhotos:

[
  { "id"=>"11113751194",
    "secret"=>"9b31c3b5d6",
    "server"=>"3749",
    "farm"=>4,
    "title"=>"DSC_1465",
    "isprimary"=>"1",
    "url_z"=>"http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3749/11113751194_9b31c3b5d6_z.jpg",
    "height_z"=>"427",
    "width_z"=>"640",
    "url_o"=>"http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3749/11113751194_13a5b6a677_o.jpg",
    "height_o"=>"854",
    "width_o"=>"1280"
  },
  { ... }
]

Mongo Ruby Driver

Current choice of database is MongoDB.

Install with gem install mongo

If you haven't already got MongoDB installed, install with Homebrew: brew install mongo. Then run the database, with a specified path as follows: mongod --dbpath=<your-path>.