Captain Dapper Loves Bulkr: How to Download All Your Flickr Pics

Captain Dapper has been saving photos to Flickr since June 2008. In that time I've uploaded almost 6,000 photos to the photo sharing site. I started using Flick as way to promote the line of handbags I was producing at the time. As I would shoot photos of new bags, I would add them to my Flickr photostream and tag them to get more eyes on them. Then I started added shots of Chicago and photos of my home projects and tagging them as well. Flickr proved to be an effective way to get more eyes on my designs and websites.

Over the years my use of Flickr has changed. While I started out using the site to promote my photos and blogs, it eventually became a repository for all of my mobile images. As cell phone cameras improved, I used Flickr to back up my digital photos. Some apps, like Instagram, even provide a direct upload to Flickr. If you follow me on Instagram, you know I'm a prolific picture taker. So it should really come as no surprise to me that I have amassed almost 6,000 photos in my Flickr account. And yet when I saw that number, I thought WHOAH! My next thought: I need to download all of those photos! Now that Flickr has changed how Pro accounts work, it's feels even more important to download all of my images off the site.

And that's where Bulkr comes in. Bulkr is a free downloadable app that allows you to easily backup and download all of your Flickr photos. Like ridiculously easily back up. After downloading the app, I plugged in my Flickr log-in info and got the screen that shown above. This gave me the option of downloading my entire photostream or even scrolling through my sets and favorites just as I would on Flickr. Now, downloading 5,728 photos was not a fast process. It did take quite awhile for all the images to be saved to a file on my computer but the process was totally seamless and easy.

*I was not paid to endorse Bulkr. Like everything that I post here on Captain Dapper, I am simply passing along info about the things that make life easier and more lovely.

Image: Jason Loper