How to Get Original Size of Any Flickr Photo

flickr_logo Flickr users have an option to turn off "All Sizes" of their photos when uploading them to the image hosting service. If you are the owner of the photo, you’d probably have the original photo stored in your computer, but what if you want to download the original size photo uploaded by someone else?

Fortunately, Flickr API doesn’t have any such restrictions and can be used to get the original size of the image. Get Flickr script uses the same API to make it simple for anybody to download or view the original image. All you need to do is past the Photo ID of the Flickr Photo. For example, if flickr.com/photos/username/2646391262/ is the URL of the photo, then the eight digits following the username is the Photo ID.

If you don’t want people to download the high resolution version of your photos, then the solution is to mark the photo as private while uploading. You can also try reducing the resolution before uploading.

I was just wondering how many of you use Flickr to archive your digital photos?

This post was published by on July 29, 2008

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  • http://indiandevs.com/technoworld/ Siddharth

    This post has been double posted
    delete it mate ;)

  • http://www.greatpriceshere.com Nicole Price

    I believe that this post has been repeated by oversight!

  • http://techmalaya.com Syahid A.

    Cool tip man! I wonder how Flickr will respond to this kind of tool. :D

  • http://lovermus.com paulette

    Thanks for the tip

  • http://www.flowers-org.com/ Dan

    I m not among those who use Flickr to archive my digital photo.

  • http://www.techtreak.com/ narendra.s.v

    its really sweet! coz i have seen many photo on flickr which are too small as they looks great, so let me try this out ;)

  • http://technodorm.com Fahad

    Nope, I dont use Flickr at all. :)

  • http://www.gadgets4nowt.co.uk Wii

    Fantastic find, I’d been looking for something like this for ages. How do you get to know about all this sort of stuff?

  • http://www.christmas.bg/ David

    It is so useful option. I appreciate tips mentioned by you. Now I’ll be able to get original size on the needed photos on Flickr.

  • http://www.free-games-console.co.uk Ps3 Gamer

    Cheers for the info. Will come in handy!

  • http://lovermus.com paulette

    Yeah there are really nice photos on flicker. The bigger you get the better.

  • http://www.freegadgetzone.co.uk PS3 Addict

    Thanks for this trick, i use flickr as an online storage place as a backup of my photos, and now i can get the full res pics posted by other family members.

  • http://lovermus.com paulette

    I think you have already posted this article a day back.

  • http://www.evawhite.com Eva White

    great tip. thanks. will try it out on an old school photo which one of my classmates has posted.

  • http://www.benjaminpatton.com Big Ben Patton

    This is too cool, I hope it sticks around for a bit I am going through a bunch of old saved sites I have eheeheh.

  • Sephiroth

    Hello,
    and thanks for this cool tip!!
    but just 1 problem:
    I did use this for many photos but after that most of the addresses (8digit) I enter, it gives me 2 addresses and when I click on it, I see the page that says :”This Photo Is Currently Unavailable.” and I cant get that photo.
    I dont know what to do, I would be glad if you tell me what to do! Tnx.
    Please send your answer to my E-Mail address.
    Thanks a lot!

  • Sephiroth

    Hello,
    and thanks for this cool tip!!
    but just 1 problem:
    I did use this for many photos but after that most of the addresses (8digit) I enter, it gives me 2 addresses and when I click on it, I see the page (photo_unavailable.gif) that says :”This Photo Is Currently Unavailable.” and I cant get that photo.
    I dont know what to do, I would be glad if you tell me what to do! Tnx.
    Please send your answer to my E-Mail address.
    Thanks a lot!

  • http://in-ess.net/ div^

    Wooow I always wanted to use some pictures as wallpaper but unfortunatly they didn´t had the big sizes enabled.

    Awesome find !

  • http://www.flowers-org.com/ Dan

    I m not among those who use Flickr to archive my digital photo.