#flickr api

Creating an Image Gallery with the Flickr API — Style and Logic

Creating an Image Gallery with the Flickr API — Style and Logic In the first part of this mini-series on how to develop a simple gallery using the Flickr API, we discussed the requirements of the project, the markup needed to structure the HTML page, and two out of five CSS modules. In this second and final part, we’ll cover the remaining CSS modules and the JavaScript […]

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Last night (Madrid time) we launched version 2.0 of www.ivettchicas.com. The new design was put together by Antonio Jesus Palma. He structured the uploading of photos via the flickr API system which makes it easy for me to update photos and add galleries. For more info you can go ahead and email Antonio.

1. Using Flickr apis require an OAuth token. Please follow the below steps to get an OAuth token.

Get yourself an OAuth token from OAuth Access Registration

Apply for a commercial / non-commercial key based on your need.

Fill the form and click submit.

Make a note of the generated access token. It will be something similar to "d002a0ef0a9ff9d7009d9689d646c882"

2. Clone and setup XCode project

Clone or download the XCode project from GitHub

Launch and build the project. It will show few errors. That is because we need to setup the OAuth token we previously generated.

Open URLConstants.h file and replace the text "your api key" with the OAuth token you previously generated.

Replace the text "your user name" with your flickr user id where you want to fetch the posts. It will be something similar to "99555817#N03"

Remove the #error directive from the lines above the api key and user name directives.

3. Build and Run.

4. You should now be able to see the list of all the Flickr Albums.

5. Selecting any album will launch the gallery.

6. The photo can also be shared by selecting the share button.

For more information on Flickr Apis, visit - http://www.flickr.com/services/api/

Started playing around with the Flickr API. Added some images of me to my About page using their REST API.

I am using a combination of the following REST calls to generate the list of images:

flickr.people.getPhotosOf

For a long time, I've maintained a set called Your Favourites on Flickr, which contains those photos that lots of people have marked as, well, a favourite. For ages I did this by hand, but I've finally got lazy enough to write a little script that does it. As it's only a one-off, gist seemed the best place, but I thought I'd still write a short blurb for it.

It's pretty straightforward. It only uses two methods, flickr.stats.getPopularPhotos and flickr.photosets.editPhotos, but that's enough to generate a set of 81 photos (making a nice square from the new nine-wide thumbnail layout on set pages).

Of course, it would be nice if this had a web interface, and if it offered to let you choose a set to use or to create a new one, and so on, but I already had the set, and like I said, I'm lazy. Feel free to fork it and make it do any of that stuff.

One thing to note is that the flickr.stats methods are only available to pro users who've opted in to statistics, so this isn't that useful if you're not one. Sorry.