Simple Flickr Image Scraper
Flickr scraper is a Python tool designed to help you gather images from Flickr to create datasets for YOLO training. Given your search criteria, this tool simplifies the process of collecting relevant images for various computer vision tasks.
Ensure you have Python 3.7 or later installed. The required dependencies can be installed using:
pip install -U -r requirements.txt
Key packages include:
flickrapi
To set up the Flickr scraper, follow these steps:
git clone https://github.com/ultralytics/flickr_scraper
cd flickr_scraper
pip install -U -r requirements.txt
Before you begin:
Obtain a Flickr API key here.
Insert your API key and secret into flickr_scraper.py
:
# Replace with your Flickr API key and secret
key = 'YOUR_API_KEY'
secret = 'YOUR_API_SECRET'
--n
) and use --download
to save the images locally. Downloaded images are saved to flickr_scraper/images
. Keep in mind Flickr's rate limits and terms of use. Learn more from the Flickr API documentation.Example command:
python3 flickr_scraper.py --search 'honeybees on flowers' --n 10 --download
You will see output similar to:
0/10 https://live.staticflickr.com/21/38596887_40df118fd9_o.jpg
...
9/10 https://live.staticflickr.com/1770/43276172331_e779b8c161_o.jpg
Done. (4.1s)
All images saved to /Users/glennjocher/PycharmProjects/flickr_scraper/images/honeybees_on_flowers/
Images are then available in the specified folder, ready for further processing or training.
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