Grab Flickr photos at ease

As much as I tried to trust the cloud to be there when I need to access content, there are situations when I prepare grabbing what I want to consume offline so that I know for sure that the content is there when I want it.

Thus I have this need of finding a good software to grab Flickr photos to view offline. Some apps that I used to use were no longer operating, thus I need to find some new apps to solve this problem.

I used to use an application called Downloadr, but the API no longer works.

Here's the application I tried:

- Bulkr: the application works fine, but all the necessary features (like donwload in full resolution) are locked until you pay the license fee.

- Flickr Downloadr: I tried but it failed to operate, so I gave up on it.

- Downloadair: It works ok, but requires me to log in to my account, and can only download content that links to my account thru Favorites or News.  So in order to download content that others post on Flickr, I have to first follow them, and then use the News feature to load the album.  It's doable, just seemed troublesome.

- JDownloader: I didn't even know that JDownloader can be used to download photos from Flickr until reading this site.  Unfortunately, it can't download the original images, as pointed out by the comment left by a reader on that web page.  It seems like the photos has to be upload in certain way in order to make original image download work.

- DownFlickr - Flickr Downloader Google Chrome extension:  This one is really interesting, because even though it seems to be a bit clunky by forcing me to keep pressing the "+30" button in order to add all photos into the download list, spreads everything in the download folder, this create a bit post download work. and the result seemed to have some duplication, it does something most other tools failed to do: it can download photos that are marked as "protected from downloading".  It is so far the best solution as of this moment.