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https://github.com/magnusvk/flickrfaves

FlickrFaves is a small utility for downloading high-resultion copies of your Flickr favorites to your harddrive.
https://github.com/magnusvk/flickrfaves

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FlickrFaves is a small utility for downloading high-resultion copies of your Flickr favorites to your harddrive.

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## FlickrFaves



### Unmaintained



Unfortunately I do not currently have the time to maintain FlickrFaves. I have received reports of problems authorizing with an "invalid frob" error. I do not anticipate finding the time to fix this issue. Please get in touch with me if you'd like to take over maintenance of this tool.



**Update:** "invalid frob" error has been fixed in version 2.0.7.



### Readme



FlickrFaves is a small utility for **downloading high-resultion versions of your Flickr favorites to your harddrive**. If you are like me this means hundreds of beautiful new wallpapers at the click of a button! FlickrFaves is a cross-platform utility written in Java.



[**Download now!**](https://github.com/magnusvk/FlickrFaves/releases/download/v2.0.7/FlickrFaves-2.0.7.jar) (current version: 2.0.7)



* [executable](https://github.com/magnusvk/FlickrFaves/releases/download/v2.0.7/FlickrFaves-2.0.7.jar): JAR-file; simply double-click to run on most systems; requires Java, see below

* [source](https://github.com/magnusvk/FlickrFaves/archive/v2.0.7.zip): ZIP-file; cotains only source code



**Warning:** Hundreds of people use FlickrFaves every month without any problem whatsoever. However, this software is released *without any warranty*. Backup the directory you are downloading to and use at your own risk!



**License:** FlickrFaves is released as open-source under the [GNU General Public License](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html) version 2, or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.



**Questions? Problems? Comments? Bugs?** — [file an issue!](https://github.com/magnusvk/FlickrFaves/issues)



### Changelog



* 2.0.7: Fix authorization error

* 2.0.6: Use SSL, now that Flickr requires it

* 2.0.5: Fix problem where images that were not “large enough” weren’t deleted

* 2.0.4: Fix crash when trying to open the browser

* 2.0.3: Don’t download the image-not-available image

* 2.0.2: Fix another common crash case

* 2.0.1: Now downloads original size again; fixes crashes

* 2.0.0: Fix problems with API key by reducing number of API calls

* 1.1.2: I honestly don’t remember. :)

* 1.1.1: Handle inaccessible favorites gracefully

* 1.1.0: Support for video download; choose whether to download photos, videos or both; download photos that are not public (e.g. for friends only); more gracefully handle network problems

* 1.0.4: Gracefully handle a download directory that does not exist or is not writable

* 1.0.3: Support for proxies; improved error reporting; new versions of BrowserLauncher2 and flickrj

* 1.0.2: Include a new flickrj version to fix problems during authorization

* 1.0.1: If a picture does not have an “original” size, download the largest available one instead

* 1.0: Identical to 1.0-b3; out of beta now as that version is very stable

* 1.0-b3: Fix stalling downloads; add automatic version check; minor improvements

* 1.0-b2: Fix problems with changed Flickr API; improve error handling

* 1.0-b1: Initial release



### Requirements:



* A [Flickr](http://www.flickr.com/) account

* Java Runtime Environment, version 5.0 or later ([available here](http://www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp))



### Features



* Download your Flickr favorites in the highest available resolution

* Optional minimum resolution: only download images that are sufficiently large for your screen

* Optionally limit the number of images downloaded — download only your newest faves

* Choose whether to re-download and overwrite existing images

* Automatically detects incomplete downloads

* Optionally delete stale faves

* Optionally exclude certain images

* Automatically remembers your choices



**Warning:** Always observe photo’s licenses! Do not re-distribute or otherwise utilize downloaded images without permission. You are responsible for this!



This software comes packaged with the following open-source libraries:



* [BrowserLauncher2](http://sf.net/projects/browserlaunch2)

* [Flickr4Java](https://github.com/boncey/Flickr4Java)

* [ScribeJava](https://github.com/scribejava/scribejava)

* [SLF4J](https://github.com/qos-ch/slf4j)