Photo Grabbr Help

Quick Start Guide

Select the type of lookup you want to go: Username, Group, or Group ID.
Enter the identifier of the person you want to search for (username, user ID, group, or group ID).
Press "Search" to begin looking for the Flickr account.
If the search is successful, then the list of sets visible to you will be displayed here. Select the ones you want to download. Also, cmd-A will select all the sets, shift-clicking will select a range of sets, and command-clicking will select/unselect a set.
Press "Download" to begin downloading the selected sets. Sub-folders are created for each Flickr user and any photosets that you download.
If there are no sets to download or you want to download all the pictures in the account, press "Download All Photos". Option-clicking on this button will bring up filters that you can use to narrow down which photos you want downloaded.
Once photos are downloading, you can keep track of the downloading progress here. The numbers in parentheses will indicate the current photo page out of the total number of pages whereas the numbers after the colon shows how many photos out of the total have been downloaded.
If you want to go to the web page for the thing you just searched for, this button will take you to it.

Initially, Photo Grabbr can only see photos and photosets that are publicly viewable. In order to download those that you have permission to see, you will need to give Photo Grabbr read-access to your Flickr account. You can do this by selecting "Authorize..." under the "Flickr" menu. Your default web-browser will then open to the applications permissions page of your Flickr account. Follow the prompts shown and then return to the Photo Grabbr application to indicate that it now has access to your account.

You can also specify which photo size to download, where the photos will be downloaded to, and whether or not to use the photo's title as the filename via the Preferences panel.

Some Trouble-shooting Tips

Photoset not found

Not everyone allows their photos to be downloaded. If you see this error when trying to download photosets, then that user has blocked people from downloading their photos. Unfortunately, there's nothing much I can do about that.

No photos downloaded using the "Download All Photos" button

Again, not everyone allows their photos to be downloaded.

Unable to find a user, getting a bad URL error message or some such

Sometimes users like to be cute and put weird characters in their Flickr screen name. Unfortunately, this makes it hard to construct a URL that lets me find them. Even more unfortunate is that I have no fix for this yet. Hopefully in the next release I will.

Using the 'Download All Photos' filters

Sometimes when downloading all the photos from a Flickr account, you really don't want to get all the photos. Option-clicking on the 'Download All Photos' button will display a dialog sheet that contains filters to constrain which photos are downloaded.

Misc

Start at photo number: [number]
Skip ahead this many photos and start downloading from there.

Stop at photo number: [number]
Stop downloading when you reach this photo's position.

Photo tags: [comma separated tags]
Download photos that have any of these tags.

Only if the photo has all of these tags
Download photos that have all of the tags.

Text: [text]
Download photos who's title, description or tags contain the text.

Date

The filters expect the date to be in this format: [day] [month name] [year]. However, the text fields have date formatters attached to them so typing in something that resembles a date and pressing Tab (or really, anything that switches focus away) will activate the formatter and convert the text to what the filter is expecting.

Uploaded after date: [date]
Download photos uploaded after this date.

Uploaded before date: [date]
Download photos uploaded before this date.

Taken after date: [date]
Download photos taken after this date.

Taken before date: [date]
Download photos taken before this date.

Licenses

Flickr allows users to put their photos under various licenses. These filters can be used to only download photos with the licenses that you specify. For more information on these licenses, go to http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/.