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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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flickr API commercial application

I am working on a project in which i have created an app on flickr. my account is free account. using that app. many users connects to my application and i store their access_token in my database. using that token. my application send requests to…
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Populating a GridView with ImageViews dynamically/programmatically using a ImageAdapter

I try to develop an Android App which allows the user to fetch data from flickr and show it in a GridView (with some nice 3D-Animation). After some adventures i got it almost running, but now I'm stuck. Here's the problem: I got a UI Thread…
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How to convert an InMemoryUploadedFile in django to a fomat for flickr API?

I have a class that uploads a file to Flickr. The file is of type 'InMemoryUploadedFile'. I would like to know how to convert or pass the data in the 'InMemoryUploadedFile' file, to a format for flickr's API? Eg: {'photo': ('image.jpg',…
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Get photos from flickr.photos API?

I want to list photos from flickr account using flickr.photos API using PHP with OAuth. Right now to get the URLs of the images I am doing it in 2 steps which makes too many requests to the API and takes too much time: First I request the photos…
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Invalid signature for signing requests to the Flickr API (simulation in console)

I'm trying to authenticate to the Flickr API for a demo application I want to make for myself. Then i will extend this app with new features that i'll learn of the Flick API's. So this is just something i want to play with. But now I have some…
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Does Flickr support CORS? SECURITY ERROR with getImageData

Hello dear community. I'm trying to create extract colors from images fetched from Flickr. That all works really great to the point when I try to process that images in canvas with getImageData(). As described through WHATWG loading an image into…
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Slow INSERT into InnoDB table with random PRIMARY KEY column's value

For my website I use the PHP API for Flickr ( http://www.flickr.com/services/api/ ). This API provides several useful methods to get photos around particular GPS positions. The call to API methods looks like URL with specific parameters like…
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Getting flickr thumbnail

I'm trying to get a thumbnail of flickr pictures in PHP. All I saw was this in their API: http://www.flickr.com/services/api/misc.urls.html Which is a overkill. In instagr.am/twitpic and others I found a very easy way of doing so (just adding to the…
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Flickr API error when oauth

When accepting my flickr app, I get the following error message: "Oops! Flickr doesn't recognise the permission set." It seems I am not alone with this problem, see Yang and Yun's Album's on this discussion. Any help very much aprreciated, Thanks
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Using flickr to get photos of a specific location and put together a model

I've read about systems which use the Flickr database of photos to fill in gaps in photos (http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=629). How feasible is a system like this? I was toying with the idea (not just a way of killing time but as a good…
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flickr api: how to get relevant image results?

I am getting some irrelevant and low (subjective) image quality from the flickr api. I notice that sites such as haiku deck use flickr api and they get relevant results I am using the flickrnet api. Below is the code I am using, along with the…
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How to access private photos through Flickrj Api?

I'm making an authenticated call to access photos through Flickr API. But I am only getting my public photos but not any private photos. Given below is the code I'm using, Flickr f; RequestContext requestContext; String frob = ""; String token =…
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Which is better, save a website images on Amazon S3, Flickr or Picasa?

I have a website and going to extend it, so users will upload their images on this website, i want to save users images in another storage service. Users will save images and view them, and also share with others. I know that i can do that using…
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Angularjs not storing variable to $scope after AJAX call within $http.get request

I'm using angularjs and I can't get the following controller to save to a $scope variable the data returned from an AJAX request to Flickr. The $http.get makes a call to a locally saved json file. Upon success, it uses the json returned in…
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Calling Flickr API with Swift

I was trying to get some JSON data from a Flickr API but my Swift code is not working. This is based on Jameson Quave's tutorial on making an API request with Swift func GetFlickrData(tags: String) { let baseURL =…
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