Comments on: Flickr screensaver for Linux

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:19:49 +0000

Adding _enc at the end of the flickr url (as shown below) should take care of the enclosure error. Now, can anyone tell me how to get podget to download pictures on flickr marked as restricted?

# FORMAT:
#
# my photostream
http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=31073629@N00&lang=en-us&format=rss2_enc screensaver Flickr mine

By: Trygve

Trygve — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 23:41:58 +0000

Hi there, and thanks for a nice walk-through.

The rss feeds from flickr have changed a bit, and you have to specify &format=rss_200_enc to get the feed with enclosed images.

By: Kent Cowgill

Kent Cowgill — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:12:57 +0000

I got that too. Now there’s another not-so-well documented way to get at the pictures as enclosures: append _enc to the URL, like:

http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=31073629@N00&lang=en-us&format=rss2_enc

And that should do it!

By: larcher

larcher — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:32:36 +0000

Hmm, I get the same thing now – I’m guessing the APOD feed format has changed since I first posted this (which was .. two years ago?!).

By: Spencer

Spencer — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 21:13:06 +0000

when trying podget i get:

Category: screensaver Name: APOD
Downloading feed index from http://feeds.feedburner.com/seanreiser/apod
2010-12-28 16:12:33 URL:http://feeds.feedburner.com/seanreiser/apod [4636] -> “-” [1]
No enclosures in feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/seanreiser/apod

No enclosures in feed?

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:46:50 +0000

One more comment to answer my issue with getting older photos. It looks like the Desktop Flickr Organizer (available as the dfo package on Ubuntu/Debian) would be a great tool to do an initial deep sync, after which your rss feed idea would be a great way to stay up-to-date.

http://code.google.com/p/dfo/

DFO is written by the (very generous) author of flickrfs.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:12:34 +0000

This was helpful & much easier than the flickrfs thing I found earlier. It would be nice to be able to add older photos to the batch, though. Flickrfs is now a package in Ubuntu, but it seems a little half-baked… “Easy” is a great way to describe it.

Thanks for the post.