How to download an image from flickr

Mar 11
2009
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I wasn’t able to download a photo from flickr. It happened to be 1px transparent image over the other. Here is a simple scaper in cases of such “protection”:

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require 'rubygems'
require 'www/mechanize'
 
url = 'http://www.flickr.com/photos/46457493@N00/3162339409/in/set-72157612102050814/'
 
my_id = url.split("/")[-3]
agent  = WWW::Mechanize.new
page   = agent.get(url)
 
url   = page.search("//div[@id='photoImgDiv#{my_id}']/img").attr('src')
 
agent.get(url).save_as((File.basename(url)).split("?")[0])
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