image_download.py

import flickrapi
import requests
import os

# Your Flickr API credentials
FLICKR_PUBLIC = '0ff89a88a2a61c24f452774ad32ee62c'
FLICKR_SECRET = '35c5034466630c82'

# Create Flickr API object
flickr = flickrapi.FlickrAPI(FLICKR_PUBLIC, FLICKR_SECRET, format='parsed-json')

# Search for images with relevant tags
results = flickr.photos.search(
    text='advertisement',
    per_page=50,
    media='photos',
    sort='relevance',
    extras='url_o,url_l,url_c,tags',
    content_type=1,
    safe_search=1
)

photos = results['photos']['photo']

# Create folder to save images
# os.makedirs('flickr_brooklyn_ads', exist_ok=True)

# Download images
for i, photo in enumerate(photos):
    url = photo.get('url_o') or photo.get('url_l') or photo.get('url_c')
    if url:
        img_data = requests.get(url).content
        with open(f'nyc_ads_dataset/img_{i}.jpg', 'wb') as handler:
            handler.write(img_data)
        print(f"Downloaded: img_{i}.jpg")