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Flickr Crawler
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General description: 
In this project we implemented two crawlers for Flickr website. Our code is in Python and it runs in two levels.

Author: 
Kazem Jahanbakhsh

Technical details:
This project includes the following two crawlers:

Friendship graph crawler: 
This Python code runs a BFS on social graph of Flickr (the friendship graph) to extract the friendship connectivities among Flickr users.
    
Photos crawler: 
This crawler uses the social graph collected by the first crawler. It examines every node in frienship graph and collects all possible information about users social profiles by using the Flickr API. It also crawls all photosets uploaded by each user and downloads different attributes of each photo. However, this code does not download the photos itself.

source code: flickr-crawler.py