Download my images

[CharlesNepote]

This is a question which have been asked sometimes.
In the case we had a few days ago, the person wanted to have an easy way to download her/his own photos for later reuse.

There are probably some use cases from people who both want to contribute and reuse their own photos. Some people might even find Open Food Facts as a repository, not more.

Implementation

Principles:

• probably few people need this, so it shouldn't be perfect but usable
• it mustn't overload our servers; if some users are asking this, it's probably not for few photos

Resources:

• we have predictable links on the Amazon S3 repository of our photos, based on the barcode
• our parquet export seems to have both the barcode and the uploader of each image

It seems reasonably possible to build a script and perhaps a simple interface to allow a contributor to download their photos:

• without using our "production" websites
• using Amazon S3 infrastructure

Simple script

A simple script can be a good start, maybe in a multiplatform language (Python?). It could:

• extract from our parquet the codes and imageids of the photos related to a specific user
• iterate from this list to download the images localy
• find a way to identify all the pictures: include codes into image's metadata?