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1# this lacks a TON of exception handling, I'll be updating it as I go along
2
3import flickrapi
4import json
5import urllib.request
6
7
8def downloader():
9    api_key = input("what is your api key?")  # Get this from Flickr
10    api_secret = input("what is your api secret key?")  # Get this from Flickr
11    photoset = input("what is the id of the photoset you're trying to download from?")  
12    user = input("what is the user id you're trying to access?")  
13    as_of_date = input("as of what date are you trying to download the pictures? Please use the following "
14                       "format YYYY-MM-DD")  # 2020-04-15
15    flickr = flickrapi.FlickrAPI(api_key, api_secret)
16    pass1 = flickr.photosets.getPhotos(api_key=api_key, photoset_id=photoset, user_id=user
17                                       , format='json', page=1)  # there's definitely a better way to do this, the flickrapi only returns a max of 500 pictures per, since the album currently has 836 pictures, I did two calls. I'll need to fix this as more pictures are added
18    pass2 = flickr.photosets.getPhotos(api_key=api_key, photoset_id=photoset, user_id=user
19                                       , format='json', page=2)
20    dict1 = json.loads(pass1)  # my dog was not in the first 500 pictures, so dict1 is not used anywhere
21    dict2 = json.loads(pass2)
22    i = 1
23    for j in dict2["photoset"]["photo"]:  # for every photo in dict2
24        date = flickr.photos.getInfo(api_key=api_key, photo_id=j["id"], format='json')  # this call gets the info of each picture, this has the date captured attribute that I need
25        picture = flickr.photos.getSizes(api_key=api_key, photo_id=j["id"], format='json')  # for some reason, the folks at flickr thought it a good idea to add the URL for the picture in a .getSizes() function? Very confusing naming
26        dict_date = json.loads(date)
27        dict_pic = json.loads(picture)
28        og_pic_url = dict_pic["sizes"]["size"][15]["source"]  # the original size is always the last element of the size list, and it's always 15
29        taken = dict_date["photo"]["dates"]["taken"]
30        if taken[0:10] == as_of_date:  # I need to put some error handling here
31            print(dict_date["photo"])
32            fullname = dict_date["photo"]["title"]["_content"] + ".jpg"  # I need to add a directory path, saving a bunch of 10MB+ pictures to my small SSD is a no go
33            url = og_pic_url
34            urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, fullname)  # this actually downloads the pictures
35            i += 1
36        else:
37            print(str(i) + " " + taken[0:10])
38            i += 1
39    pass