#!/usr/bin/php -q
<?php

// Replace with your Flickr API key
$key = 'YOURFLICKRAPIKEY';

// Parse optional command line arguments:
//  flickrdl.php <dest directory> <num images>
// e.g.:    flickrdl.php /tmp 25
$dir = $_SERVER['argc'] > 1 ? $_SERVER['argv'][1] : '.';
$num = $_SERVER['argc'] > 2 ? $_SERVER['argv'][2] : 1;

// Send an API request to get the image list
$res = file_get_contents("http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?".
 "method=flickr.interestingness.getList".
 "&api_key=$key&per_page=$num");

// Parse the XML response
$search = new SimpleXMLElement(trim($res));
if ($search['stat'] == 'fail') die($search->err[0]['msg']);

// Iterate over each photo
foreach ($search->photos[0] as $photo) {

 // Print photo ID for debugging/notification
 print "{$dir}/{$photo['id']}.jpg\n";

 // Download the image and save to local file
 copy("http://static.flickr.com/{$photo['server']}".
  "/{$photo['id']}_{$photo['secret']}.jpg", 
  "{$dir}/{$photo['id']}.jpg");
}

?>