Backup your flickr photos and videos.

Originally had grand plans about a read/write subversion-like interface to flickr photos. And not just flickr, with a generic interface that could support photobucket, et al.

The reality: the only reliable or useful parts of this tool are: pics checkout ..., pics update ..., and the 'simpleflickrapi.py' Flickr API client library.

Yes, there need to me more docs here. Yes, the crud needs to be stripped out.

1. Get pics:

   git clone https://github.com/trentm/pics.git
   export PATH=`pwd`/pics/bin:$PATH
   

2. Get a flickr api key: http://www.flickr.com/services/apps/create/apply/

3. Write your key and secret to: ~/.flickr/API_KEY and ~/.flickr/SECRET respectively.

4. Learn how to checkout: pics help checkout

5. Checkout some of your flickr pics:

   $ pics checkout flickr://YOUR-FLICKR-NAME/ photos -s small -b 2011-12-01
   * * *
   Requesting 'read' permission to your Flickr photos in
   your browser. Press <Return> when you've finished authorizing.
   
   If your browser doesn't open automatically, please visit to authorize:
     http://flickr.com/services/auth/?perms=read&...
   * * *
   pics: A  photos/2011-11/6485824601.small.jpg  [O-nacho!!!]
   ...
   

   A bare pics checkout flickr://NAME/ DIR will download the original of all your photos and videos.

6. This "working copy" download is updatable (i.e. if you've added/changed) photos in flickr or changed metadata:

   cd .../photos
   pics update
   

   pics update also works to restart an aborted checkout. This is useful if it is taking too long to download the whole kaboodle.

MIT. See LICENSE.txt.