[Tip] Download All Flickr Photos and Videos in Bulk

In April 2018, the popular photo hosting website “Flickr” was acquired by SmugMug from Yahoo! and recently SmugMug announced that all free accounts of Flickr will get some limitation and restrictions on usage of server space to store their photographs and videos.

Starting from February 05, 2019, all free Flickr accounts will be able to store only 1000 photos or videos. Currently all free Flickr account holders get 1 TB storage space to save their photos. Many free Flickr account users are having thousands of photos stored in their Flickr accounts. But starting from Feb 5, 2019, they’ll be able to keep only one thousand photos in their account.

If a free Flickr account user has more than 1000 photos in account, the extra photos will be automatically deleted from the account starting from oldest to newest date uploaded.

If you also have more than 1000 photos in your free Flickr account, you may worry about this change. Starting Feb 2019, Flickr will remove extra photos automatically from your account. So it’ll be a wise idea to immediately take a backup of all your Flickr photos on your computer.

Today in this tutorial, we’ll tell you how to download all Flickr photos and videos in bulk so that you can have a full backup of all your Flickr account photos on your PC. Once you download all Flickr photos, you’ll have no worries about automatic removal of photos from your Flickr account if you have 1000+ photos stored in your Flickr account.

Remember you can download your existing photos and videos from Flickr till January 08, 2019 only.

There are 2 ways to download all Flickr photos and albums at once:

METHOD 1: Using Camera Roll Feature

1. Open Flickr website, login to your account and click on You -> Camera Roll option.

2. It’ll open Camera Roll page. Now click on Select All option to select all photos. A new selection panel will appear at the bottom of the page.

3. Click on Download button given on the selection panel.

Flickr will show a message “We’ll zip up these items and send you a FlickrMail with a link to download them when they are ready”. Click on “Create zip file” button.

4. Flickr will show a notification “A FlickrMail with your download link will appear here shortly or view the progress”. You can click on “View the progress” link given in notification to open the page containing download link.

Click on “Download zip file” button to start downloading a zip archive of all your Flickr account photos, videos and albums.

Alternatively, you can check your email account Inbox and a new email from Flickr will appear containing a download link to download zip file of all Flickr photos.

That’s it. Now you have a complete backup of all your Flickr photos, videos and albums.

METHOD 2: Using Request Flickr Data Feature

1. Open Flickr website, login to your account and click on your profile icon present on the top-right corner. Now select Settings option in given menu.

Alternatively, you can directly open the account settings page using following link:

Open Flickr Account Settings Page

2. Now on personal information page, look under “Your Flickr Data” section. Flickr will show you information that you can use this tool to download the information that Flickr has about your account, including account preferences, profile information, and your photos and videos.

Click on “Request my Flickr data” button. The button label will change to “Flickr data requested“.

Wait for some time and you’ll receive an email from Flickr in your registered email account containing download link to download your Flickr account data including all your photos, videos and albums.