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Published July 16, 2025 | Version v1
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Social media data: Flickr and Twitter metadata for eight mountain parks in Spain and Portugal

Creators

  • 1. Universidad de Granada
  • 2. Instituto Interuniversitario De Investigación Del Sistema Tierra En Andalucía
  • 3. University of Oviedo

Description

This dataset contains a collection of geolocated photos and their associated metadata, which were retrieved from two social media platforms: Flickr (241,582 photos) and Twitter/X (1,035,488 photos) downloaded for the period 2015 - 2022. The metadata includes information such as geographic coordinates, timestamps, anonymised user identifiers and platform-specific attributes (e.g. tags, text captions, image URLs and retweets/favourites for Twitter).

The data were collected for eight mountain national parks located in Spain and Portugal: Aigüestortes, Sierra de Guadarrama, Ordesa, Peneda-Gerês, Picos de Europa, Sierra de las Nieves, Sierra Nevada and Teide.

These databases were subsequently labeled using artificial intelligence models and expert human labelers.

able 1. Table of contents of the dataset

Folder

    

format

Description

Flickr

Database metadata

Flickr_database

.csv

This CSV file contains metadata associated with 241,582 geolocated photos retrieved from the Flickr platform

Twitter

Database metadata

Twitter_database

.csv

This CSV file contains metadata associated with 1,035,488 geolocated photos retrieved from the Twitter platform

Scripts to download photos

Flickr

Download Flickr

.py

Python script used to download geolocated photos from the Flickr platform (publicly accessible via API). The script implements a grid-based approach (1 km resolution) to spatially structure and optimize the download process, avoiding API rate limits and redundancies.
 

Twitter

Download Twitter

.py

Python script used to download geolocated photos from the Twitter/X platform (currently restricted). The script implements a grid-based approach (1 km resolution) to spatially structure and optimize the download process, avoiding API rate limits and redundancies.

Files

2_Social media data.zip

Files (155.5 MB)

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Additional details

Funding

Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades
EarthCul project PID2020-118041GB-I00

Software

Repository URL
https://github.com/sbmanolo/flickr-grid-downloader
Programming language
Python