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4Mar/091

Scraping and Saving Flickr Images with Ruby

I've been playing around a bit more with the black arts of spidering and scraping in Ruby and I'm still amazed by how easy it is to do. For fun I whipped up a little script that will spider a Flickr photostream and download all the images.

Flickr provides a wonderful api and there's even a great Ruby interface for it, so this script is entirely futile. But it was fun and educational.

Usage

 
ruby init.rb yourusername /location/to/save
 

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  1. dil bert
    December 1st, 2011 - 14:24

    well u gotta do great stuff – you are great. really –
    dude have a look at https://scraperwiki.com/search/flickr/

    Take a look at a few of those scrapers greetings
    dil


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