Set date taken (max), Defines an additional filter for the Search action.

Set API key, Sets the API key property with the value given as a parameter.

The Search string property is taken as a parameter of this action.

Search, Runs a Search query using the Flickr API.

The value of 'Result count' property is taken as a parameter of this action.

Load more images, Loads additional images into the Photos object list.

The other script, reads links from the url file, fetches images and stores them in a folder.īelow is the code for the script that fetches the urls by tag, flickrGetUrl. I created two scripts, one fetches the url of a given tag and stores it in a csv file. I was able to create a script to fetch images by tag and store on computer in a folder named after the tag being searched for.

I was able to use this api to easily fetch around 600+ images for a given tag. For example, you can search images for common day items/places and buildings such as lamp-post, pizza, church, etc.

You can search for images by tag, using this api. Flickr has an api that can be used for image collection. If these data-sets also don’t seem to serve your purpose, then you can use flickr as your data collection source. Then there are data-sets such as MS COCO, Imagenet and CIFAR 10 very commonly used in academia. There is also amazon reviews data hosted here also includes pre-processed image featuresģ. Yelp has vast collection of data made publicly available, they have made public a data set of 200,000 images, you can check out here Ģ. Below is a list of resources from where you can use image data for your own projects:ġ. Even if you were not concerned about the law or ethics, scrapping at scale can be challenging particularly if there are safeguards in place to discourage scrapping. It is not legal and ethical to scrape some websitesĢ. If you know your way around web-scrapping you can easily collect the images that you want but scrapping websites has two pitfalls:ġ. The first road block that people stumble upon is the fact that data for the custom project that they want to do may not be available. Once you embark on the journey to deep learning and get past the basic toy examples such as classifying hand-written digits on MNIST data set, the next logical step is to start working on your own custom projects. How to use flickr api to collect data for deep learning experiments?

Flickr image search