Project Description
FlickrCrawler is a flickr download tool that allows you to download your flickr photos. You can set it up as a flickr archival utility - run it unattended as a scheduled task and it will keep your local archive of Flickr photos updated on a daily basis.
You can choose which sizes you want to archive, as well as the photo titles, descriptions and other flickr metadata.
This way, you can continue to use the Flickr tools to manage your photos on Flickr, and always know that if Flickr ever implodes, all of your photos are still safe (assuming of course that your local PC is safe).
The plan for this application was to archive your photos to a DVD to save in a safe place for long term archival. This will eventually mean including a date range filter so you don't download photos that are older than a given date (because you've already archived them to DVD and have deleted the copies on your PC).
Download a Flickr user's photo sets and photos to your local PC, browse pictures locally, archive to DVD and distribute to family etc...
Features
Archives photosets from a Flickr user's account
Browse archived Flickr sets without being connected to Flickr
Run Unattend - schedule a task and use the "/u" to have the archiver run overnight while you sleep
Maximum Threads - specify how many concurrent connections are allowed. Prevents overloading Flickr with too many connections (defaulted to 10)
System Requirements
Microsoft .NET 2.0 Framework
Known Limitations
Need to be able to connect to Flickr (not all functions work disconnected)
Blog
http://flickrcrawler.blogspot.com