Nowadays it provides 1TB storage for free. Perfect cloud backup solution to my millions of photos.
I like the idea of mounting flickr photos to a file system. Dictionary is the most intuitive way to organize photos. Plus, mounting a file system provide easy integration with the rest of the system to upload/download photos from Flickr.
Previous flickfs is a very good implementation demostrating this concept. Unfortuntely it is dead. So I decided to rewrite a new file system to replace and call it flickrfs-ng.
FUSE has been improved a lot since its first 1.X branch. However the python-fuse module is still quite out-of-date. flickrfs-ng will use fusepy instead to provide python binding.
The original flickrapi is also out-of-maintain, and will be replaced with python-flickr-api which is in actively development and support OAuth.
Indexing by date An auto directionary structure will be provided to list photos by date. e.g. /mnt/flickr/date/2013-01 refers to the photos taken in Jan 2013, while /mnt/flickr/date/2013 refers to all photos taken in year 2013.
Indexing by tags Easily filter photos with given tags. /mnt/flickr/tags/newzealand/ will get all photos with tag newzealand
EXIF integration exif info will be used, i.e. the date. The data could be viewed as /mnt/flickr/stream/.P23012345.JPG.exif
Metadata Could be found and updated in /mnt/flickr/stream/.P23012345.JPG.meta
Transparent resizing To get a smaller size of photo, just get /mnt/flickr/stream/P23012345.1024.JPG
OAuth Use OAuth which is now the prefer way