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Use this tag for questions about the public API provided by Flickr, a photo/video sharing website Photos are tagged with metadata, such as tags, geolocation, and Exif data, which can all be accessed through the API. (For non-programming questions, contact Flickr customer support.)

Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community acquired by Yahoo!. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to host images that they embed in blogs and social media.

Almost all of the functionality that runs flickr.com is available through the API. The API is available for non-commercial use by outside developers and for commercial use by prior arrangement.

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How do REST APIs work with JavaScript when the same-origin policy exists for browsers?

I am working with Flickr's REST API and it's working fine. By that, I mean I'm making an AJAX call to the Flickr API and getting a JSON object back, parsing the object, etc. etc. But this raises a question in my mind. If browsers follow the…
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Using Flickr API to search photos by location or language

Some popular words, like "food," are used all over the world as loan words. I am trying to use flickr.photos.search to get photos from one specific language or region. I didn't find a setting for this in…
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Flickr API on Android?

I want to use Flickr API for downloading the images on Android Phone, can any one give or tell, me about the working sample of Flickr API on Andorid. I have add the flickr.jar as the external library, and i have the "Key"and "Secret" but i do not…
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Hosting web site images: Flickr PRO, Amazon S3 or...?

I'd like to save some of my site monthly bandwidth allocation and I'm wondering if I can use Flickr PRO or I should rely on Amazon S3 as an hosting service for my web site images. (My Web Application allows users to upload their own pictures and at…
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Flickr 'Invalid auth token (98)' Uploading videos from Asp.net Application

I am attempting to allow user to upload videos to Flickr from an Asp.net application using the FlickrNet library/API. I've obtained an API key and an API secret from Flickr. Additionally I am retrieving an authToken using the AuthGetFrob method…
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.ajaxStop callback function being executed multiple times

I'm using jQuery but my problem is that my page variable is being incremented several times even when I'm using "page += 1" in the .ajaxStop callback function because it's being executed more than once after the first time it's used. I use that…
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Get Albums and Photos of specified albums using flickr api

I want to get photos from albums which I have on flickr . I have 4 albums . Curently I am doing flickr.people.getPublicPhotos method which returns all photos . Here is my…
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Flickr API get image based on location

Is it possible through flickr api or some other service obtain CC-images taken at the location the user is situated? Like getting the lat and long from the browser and sending it to flickr and then fetching an image taken there? Similar to how the…
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How do I parse this Flickr response?

I get this from a sample Flickr response in their api site: jsonFlickrApi({"method":{"_content":"flickr.test.echo"}, "format":{"_content":"json"}, "api_key":{"_content":"8038f7f7d7151ccbf6df2aa10b1b35ae"}, "stat":"ok"}) I can see the dictionary in…
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clojure oauth and credentials

I need some help with clojure and oauth. I got stuck at the last step: signing the request with the credentials. (def credentials (oauth/credentials consumer (:oauth_token access-token-response) …
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What is the Flickr API for downloading a picture or URL to the picture

I wanted to download a picture from the Flickr using the flicker API. I am using OAuth for authentication. When I searched on the site, I got an API called flickr.photos.getInfo. But it only gives the path to the page where the picture belongs. Can…
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Using Zend_OAuth_Consumer to authorize with Flickr API

For those willing to use the Zend_OAuth_Consumer solution, which I highly recommend, as it handles all the trivial steps needed to process an OAuth request, and all the difficult procedures that follow the response, here is my working code: 1)…
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jQuery .each - run function for each instance of selector

I'm trying to create a simple Flickr plugin via the API to show a gallery of photo sets . The way I'd like it to work is something like this:
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Flickr API + JAVA - flickrj

I want to download a set of photos of a particular user in Flickr using the Flickr Java API (flickrj) Does anybody knows how to do it? I've stated with this code: Transport t = new REST(); Flickr f = new Flickr(key, secret, t); User u =…
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Load one random flickr image & append to div

I'm basically trying to load in one random flickr image taken from a specific user and specific set which then gets displayed within a div with the id of 'flickr-wrap'. I'm trying to manipulate this JSON code to do what I want but haven't a clue…
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