FlickrDataAlbumsCreator

This tool creates the Flickr's Albums structure from the Flickr Data information recovered in the Flickr Account settings section.

Introduction

Is possible to download all your images from Flickr easily.

When you do this, you will be able to download your Account data and your Photos and videos.

It sound great, but the problem is that you will get your photos and videos all in the same directory (the same directory for all your photos), and the albums won't appear here.

However, in your Account data there is a JSON file with the Albums structure.

This project try to create that structure from this JSON file, copying the photos from the Photos and videos directory to their own album paths.

Get your Flickr Data

To get your Flickr Data, you will have to go to your Account settings.

There, you will find the Your Flickr Data section.

Click in the Request my Flickr data button to get the information.

After some minutes or hours, you will see here the links to download your Flickr Data information.

You will download these files and uncompress them into your computer.

The paths of your Flickr Data and Photos are important for this tool.

Development Tools

For this project I have used C# as programming language and .NET Core 3.1 as programming technology.

How do this

The project is very easy to understand.

These are the steps:

• Read the JSON Album file.
• Create the Album structure.
• Copy the Photos from the Photos directory to the Album directory.

There is a file named appsettings.json that you will have to modify. The information of this file is:

• albumsPath The Albums Path where the tool will create the albums structure
• jsonAlbums The name of the Albums JSON file (normally albums.json)
• jsonDataPath The JSON Data path where the Albums JSON file is found
• photosPath The Photos path where all photos are found