As with any social networking site, people can walk out, drop content, or get banned. So if you have faved a nice selection of flickr pictures you might wish to be able to look at them, even if the owner takes them offline. A tool to check the list of your favourites, and download them if possible, in the size you prefer (e.g., medium) may come in handy. Thus I present a simple python script I wrote to do just that. You also need Brian Hall’s flickrapi.py, of which you can also get a snapshot with which the favourites script works.
You need a configuration file as explained in the favourites script file, with two sections: general and flickrapi. The former contains the name of the browser that will be used to setup your flickr account to allow access to it using the API key you want to use with this application. The latter contains the API key and the API secret, both of which you can obtain from flickr.