Flickr images replacement

  • Hi all,
    I have been using Flickr Manager to insert pictures from my Flickr account intoa self-installed WordPress installation for the last 10 over years.

    With the recent change in Flickr management direction, I fear that all my posts images will be gone once Flickr delete the pictures to the 1000 limit mentioned.

    I would like to seek some help here whether there is a way to batch move all the referencing of the images in my posts from Flickr to somewhere else. I can download the images from Flickr but with over thousands of posts, I am not sure how to do it without spending ton of time to move picture by picture.

    Any help/suggestions is much appreciated.

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    Flickr does have an API for the site. If you can find a generic utility that will copy your Flickr collection to somewhere else, you can update your WP posts to lead to the new location by using one of the utilities meant for moving WP sites. The Flickr path/filename in the new repository should be maintained so the search and replace WP utility merely needs to change the staticflickr.com domains in your posts to the domain of where ever the images ended up.

    PHP is a very capable language. A complete solution could be custom coded to do virtually anything you want. For example, find all posts with Flickr image references. For each reference, fetch the image, save it to the uploads folder and create a related attachment post (if Flickr Manager didn’t do so already). Update the post to reflect the new location.

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