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Import your photos from Flickr!

Tuesday June 19, 2007 at 05:03PM

We have just released a GreaseMonkey plug-in, allowing

you to import your photos from Flickr.
Not only original photo is imported, but also:

  • title and description
  • private/public sharing option
  • latitude and longitude
  • the first 20 tags
  • albums list (coming soon...)


Quick and easy. Here we go!

94 Comments / add your comment?

rob_visual says:
Thank god! I don´t need this script. I´m just starting from the scratch here. A good way to rip it up and start again.

I hope the group-function will come soon. So we can start a new Hamburg/Germany-Group here. I have a good and growing community that wants to move...
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
*Reinhard* pro says:
Oh thank you, a very great job the technical team did!!!
I`m waiting for the albums list too!!
Merci bien!
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Dink says:
Thanks for the Plugin. I fetch some of my pics this way. Not all. But the most recent ones.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
{ME} pro says:
Perfect!!! Thanks :-)
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink / translate )
nib! pro says:
Merci beaucoup guys ;-)
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink / translate )
Don Gato (Toni) says:
thank you very much!!
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Knipser Jo pro says:
Great work, thank you. This is absolutely fabulous. What about an "import all photos" tool? ;)
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Geo8 pro replies:
I'd also like the import to be "bulk" oriented. Maybe in the course of time, with 1Gb a month as a Pro, I could manage to have all here. In chronological order...
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Dany pro says:
thanks a lot ......I was just wondering how to find (in my PC) all the pictures I uploaded on flickr, thanks, thanks and thanks (and go go go for album-tools).

hop, hop, hop (happy skippi)
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Alexia Cournoyer says:
thank you :)

i had only brought over a few as it was getting too tedious
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
ClaudiaS pro says:
Thank you - merci beaucoup!
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Alexia Cournoyer says:
just tried a few and they've come across as photo unavailable :(
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Alexia Cournoyer says:
btw this script will enable you to download all your pics from flickr relatively painlessly... www.flickr.com/groups/flickrhacks/discuss/72157594489070277/

then i suppose it's just putting them in the uploader..

sadly it doesn't download anything other than the pic, so all descriptions tags etc are lost..
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Christophe Ruelle pro replies:
Thanks Alexia. I'll give a look now.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Alexia Cournoyer replies:
you're welcome christophe. if nothing else it is a good way to back up everything you have on flickr. my tip is if you download each of your sets then you can add your generic and set specific tags to the uploader for each set. still means work, but it is a *lot* easier than doing it through the organiser or by hand.. :)
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Kiezkicker pro replies:
Try one of the following instead which download tags and descriptions, too:
greggman.com/pages/flickrdown.htm
www.secuserv.ch/pages/flickrgettr.html
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
hodie says:
Great work! Just the license-information don't seem to be copied. Well, there needs to be _some_ room for improvements :)
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
twotwentysix says:
my hat is off to you, dear ipernity team! good job!
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Ozan™ says:
Thanks a lot for this script!!!
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Michael pro says:
Doesn't support the transfer of original size pictures for me
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Kiezkicker pro replies:
Maybee you should check your rights at flickr? Here it download the original ones. I had the following settings:
Who can download your photos Only you edit
Who can print your photos Only you edit
Who can blog your photos Any of your contacts
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs Creative Commons
Try it. :)
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Michael pro replies:
This was a problem with the earlier version of the script. That has been resolved by now.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
rachthegoat says:
Will this work with Internet Explorer? Thanks!!! You guys rock! : )
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Fred (also on http://flickr.com/freeed) pro replies:
No actually it won't, because it is a Greasemonkey script. However, if you like, try out Firefox. I am pretty sure you'll like it and you never want to go back :)
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Christophe Ruelle pro says:
new release 1.3 is ready - please update !
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink / translate )
Michael pro replies:
OK, Original works now; But after loading the previous version the script names have disappeared from the Greasemonkey (0.7.20070607.0) context menu (otherwise GM seems to work normal).
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
FFgoatee says:
super!... je vais essayer :) merci!..
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink / translate )
Thoschi says:
wow, thanks a lot! Just going to try this out!
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
nib! pro says:
tres bien la nouvelle version est mieux ;-)
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink / translate )
kcu pro says:
you guys rock!
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Paŭl Peeraerts pro says:
Je pourrais vous embrasser!!!
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink / translate )
Paŭl Peeraerts pro says:
Only one bug. The licences are wrong (all rights reserved instead of CC licence). But that's a minor problem. I'm very glad!!
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Paŭl Peeraerts pro says:
Aussi
Qui peut poster un commentaire ?
Qui peut ajouter son tag personne ?
et
Qui peut ajouter des tags & notes ?
ne correspondent plus à mes préférences personelles.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink / translate )
Loupiote (Old Skool) says:
thanks. i'll give it a try.

why only 20 tags? is that the tag limit on iPernity? on flickr, the tag limit is 75 tags. in order to import my photos from flickr, i need to get all the tags (up to 75), so this script won't do it for me (yet).

@Paul Peeraerts

ca peut etre change' facilement plus tard a l'aide de docmanager.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Paŭl Peeraerts pro replies:
Merci, Loupiote. Oui, je n'y avais pas pensé.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink / translate )
Fred says:
génial, merci l'équipe... je vois que ça bosse dur, hé hé.... ;-))
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink / translate )
Javier Diaz says:
Bravo, ça marche, VIVE LA FRANCE!!
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink / translate )
acb says:
I tried importing one photo and the plugin imported everything but for the geotagging information. I hope this is fixed in the next release, as I'm not looking forward to geotagging my 3,000 or so Flickr photos by hand again.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
NicoleB pro says:
Thanks :D!

Not sure, I'll use it, but it's good to have :D!
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Loupiote (Old Skool) says:
a part pour la limitation des tags (j'espere que cette limitation sera corrigee bientot), ca marche tres bien, merci!

except for the tag limitation (i hope this will be fixed soon), this script works great, thanks!
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink / translate )
ecstaticist says:
This is great, but as I have 4299 photos on flickr, I rapidly ran out of space on my free account, and based on what I read about your pro accounts, I will rapidly run out of space even if I upgrade. For example, I have a set I've been working on on flickr with 932 dew drop refractions in it. Any chance of getting a one-time account transfer limit? I have joined and I am leaning toward staying by buying pro, but I would like to bring my entire collection with me.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
kerstin_d pro says:
Great job and thank you!
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
airpark says:
you can send a multi-mail to all of your flickr-friends as well... I have compiled a small HOWTO here:

www.ipernity.com/blog/airpark/11868
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Brisbane Is Home says:
My geotags are not working yet, nor is the correct CC licence being imported. Otherwise the plugin worked perfectly.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Scott Lewis says:
good to know
i just saw this after i had started to copy all my stuff over
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Panchromatica says:
Until the script allows batch uploading, I don't think I will be using it. I will probably start all over again.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Loupiote (Old Skool) says:
yes, batch uploading AND getting the 75 tags would be a big plus.

also people use two different way to geotag their photos on flickr. some people (like me) use the old-stile explicit geotags, e.g.

geotagged geo:lat=40.75465 geo:lon=-119.2365

some other people use the flickr-integrated geotags, i.e. not real tags, but info hidden in the flickr database that can be queried with the flickr API.

in the case of using real flickr tags, i think it does not work if the geo-tags are not among the first 20 tags, because of the plug-in limitation of 20 tags.

and i don't know if ipernity can import old-style explicit geotags, either. flickr can, using www.flickr.com/account/geo
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Bresel says:
I always get the message "session expired" - what am I do wrong?
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Bresel says:
ok, not anymore, what am I doing right now? hmm...
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Daniel Schwabe pro says:
I second ecstaticist's comment and plea - pls consider allowing a "one time transfer" for those of us who have largeFlickr collections. Obviously, only for those acquiring "pro" (which I am already leaning to, but this would definitely be a big push!)
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
madriguera says:
great!! thanks a lot for this plug-in, i have transfered some of my pics ... they have been transfered with the notes written by me under same (those which had) but no tags at all .... anything wrong ??? did i skipped any step?? cheers!!
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Vogelmann pro says:
uff ... that's a hassle with around 2'000 photos in flickr. :o(

I really feel like Daniel Schwabe 2 posts above me.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
vegitill pro says:
hi, thx for the plug in, but I can't move the oreginals and sometimes the large ones. Is the problem at flickr or because I don't have a pro accout here yet? Thanks for all the support, you make a great job!
Yours
Till
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
_::_ says:
Thank god it'S thursday, to bad i deleted my account though....
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
LarsT says:
Nice work so far, but needs a bit of improvement! My feature requests:

- important: make it possible migrate geotags from the map _somehow_. it's so tedious to do all that work again, and geotags rock so hard! I'm not sure whether a greasemonkey scrip can do this, if not pleeeease explain how we can do this.

- migrate whole sets / albums

- less important: migrate licensing options
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Fred (also on http://flickr.com/freeed) pro replies:
Hm. I haven't tried the geotagging thing but in the post at the top it says, it imports "latitude and longitude" -- isn't that exactly what you want?
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
sabinche says:
i tried it out - and it worked! :)
thanks!
but.... i really would love a script that enables the importing of a whole set.
do you think you guys could work that out?
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Mylens says:
Great idea!
Only for Firefox?
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Frank Heinisch says:
great work !!! but i think i start new with my photos - and firefox runs realy fast here !!!
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Lutz-R. Frank says:
Great tool for the 'move' - Thank You - but I really like Sabinche's idea of movin whole sets ;)
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
     says:
great, I did everything in 20 minutes. I lost the order of my photos, but it is fine :)

thanks
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
M a d . P h o t o . W o r l d pro says:
Great tool. I've imported a picture from flickr with GPS info.
Latitude: N 55° 42.33' 0"
Longitude: E 12° 30.12' 0"

But it never shows up in my exif at ipernity.
Also when i upload a picture directly to ipernity, the GPS information is not used. Am i doing something wrong?
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Jallen Dragonhide says:
Feedback:

Wish it remembered which pictures you already imported tho, AND hmtlized the links, then it would be perfection in the finest :)
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Jallen Dragonhide says:
Oh, and THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
jamica2005 says:
I installed firefox and greasemonkey, but always get the javascript... :(
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Thueringer pro says:
Achtung! Nach einem heutigen Update des Firefox auf die Version 2.0.0.4 funktioniert das PlugIn bei mir nicht mehr!

Caution! After an update of the Firefox to version 2.0.0.4 the PlugIn does not work any more!
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
oefe replies:
Hmm, I have 2.0.0.4 (for some weeks now), and the script works.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
oefe says:
Thank you for this nice tool!
However, it didn't import the geotags for me. I have almost all photos on f..ckr geotagged, but the imported photos doesn't have geotags.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
dannyone says:
cool.THX.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Kawafussel says:
Thank you sooooo much for that!!!
Without this I would be going mad *g*
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
phojus says:
Can I request a feature?

I would like the option to just load my Flickr Large size. Otherwise I will hit my monthly limit quickly.

Great script anyway. Thanks!
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
大青森 pro says:
Hi there,

problem: does not work with my account on flickr :(

It runs through the images, looks pretty much like working great, tags and stuff is imported correctly - but it does not get the image data, only this "the picture is anavailable right now"-error from flickr:

Looking south...

Any suggestions why it fails?
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Christophe Ruelle pro replies:
Please update to v1.3
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink / translate )
Ricarda pro says:
Didn't work with me either :/
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
Christophe Ruelle pro replies:
Please update to v1.3
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink / translate )
Ricarda pro says:
Hmm seems like its the fault of my browser version then..
How long will it take to fix the script?
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )
大青森 pro says:
In my case, it was because of the way flickr stored my images (looks like they changed that over time). The ipernity "staff" is working on a solution :)
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )
Loupiote (Old Skool) says:
malheureusement le script perd le HTML dans les descriptions.

ca serait bien mieux si le script pouvait importer le HTML et en particulier les liens dans la description des photos!
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink / translate )
burgenschenker says:
I got the same problem: a part of my flickr-posted fotos were correctly transferred (25%). about 75% arrived at ipernity with tags, description but without the foto itself. What to do? Delate the uncomplete "images"?
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )
mzeecedric says:
I have installed the script version 1.3. On flickr page it shows 1.2? I get the same error as above. Any hints? Are you working on an update?
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )
timtak says:
Je n'utilise pas firefox.
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink / translate )
Loupiote (Old Skool) says:
typo in script message:

"Thank You : this photo has been sucessfully imported into ipernity"

===> successfully
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )
Loupiote (Old Skool) says:
today i get:

Sorry : An error #503 occured. sorry about that.

by the way, there is a typo in the message:

it should be ===> occurred
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )
Loupiote (Old Skool) says:
by way, in the message:
"Thank You : this photo has been successfully imported into ipernity"

it would be nice if "ipernity" could be a link to www.ipernity.com - this way a simple click could be used to go there and check the photo / correct the description etc.
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )
Loupiote (Old Skool) says:
aparemment le script a un probleme pour importer mes dernieres photos (e.g. www.flickr.com/photos/loupiote/833172085/ ).

une fois dans ipernity, la description de la photo est remplacee par "SONY DSC".

j'ai du recoller la description a la main pour chaque photo importe'e. c'est pas top cool.
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink / translate )
Loupiote (Old Skool) says:
import script does not work with photos taken with Sony Alpha camera: photo description is not imported from Flickr.

instead, the text "SONY DSC" appears. presumably due to some EXIF metadata generated by the Sony Alpha and incorrectly interpreted by the import script.

an example of photos that cannot be imported correctly is here: flickr.com/photos/loupiote/856239663/
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )
Address Unknown says:
well, I`m sorry to say that the script doesn`t work on my PC. It worked fine at the beginning...but then something happened and, every time I try to import a photo from flickr a message appears telling me that the "session has expired".
Any suggestions? Thanks
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )
Jon Searles says:
Okay, here's a question. Why does it say "photo is currently unavailable" on almost everything I imported?

Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink )
LateNightOwl pro says:
Help please.

I have used the script from the beginning and now I am getting "Sorry :session expired".
Others have mentioned this in this thread, but no one has replied with a solution.
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )
Team Ipernity pro replies:
Ooops, there is a problem indeed. We are trying to solve it.
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )
Denni pro says:
Are there any news on this yet? I continually upload batches to Ipernity (I'm still using Flickr until my pro-account expires) and I'm currently at 'chunk' 16). It's been a few weeks since I last imported photos.

Also, I know I'm slow but is it possible to upload just a few photos at a time, using Greasemonkey?

And do I have to uninstall and re-install it?
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )
Denni pro says:
To answer my own questions: version 1.4 works (at least for now). Thanks!

There are separate scripts to move single photos to/from Flickr--as it says on the link right underneath the instructions :) (however, the link's out-of-date).

Unistall scripts by going to Tools/Greasemonkey/Manage User Scripts (just in case you were wondering...)
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )
49er fans says:
The links for download seem to be dead....
Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )
Andreas says:
Since upgrading to Firefox 3 ist always get an error on the flickr photo page from the "Flickr 2 Ipernity (1 photo) script. When trying the link it says: "Sorry : Session expired"
Known bug?
Posted 2 months ago. ( permalink )

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