I need to move most of the albums from one Flickr account to another. There do not appear to be any tools to do this directly. I am left with downloading them, then uploading them to the other account.
- If I download direct from Flickr the images do not retain title, description, etc.
If I use the Flickrdownloadr tool it copies this metadata into a separate json file, but in such a way that exiftool reports it as a 'File Format Error' and won't process the files. Here is the content of one sample json file:
"Tags":"tumblr","Description":"This is how bundling clothes helps you get more stuff in smaller spaces, wrinkle-free!","Title":"Bundles in bags"
If I run exiftool on the original jpg file, it extracts it into this format, which is probably the format it is expecting:
[{
"SourceFile": "2497947965.jpg",
"ExifToolVersion": {
"id": "ExifToolVersion",
"table": "Extra",
"val": 10.80
},
"FileName": {
"id": "FileName",
"table": "Extra",
"val": "2497947965.jpg"
},
I need to merge the metadata with the image files, somehow, some way. Fifty Google searches have not resolved this issue yet. Short of downloading dozens of albums and manually copy-pasting this metadata, one file at a time, is there any other way to achieve my goal?
My OS is Kubuntu. I have a Windows machine available if needed...