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Flickr API

The Flickr API can be used to retrieve photos from the Flickr photo sharing service using a variety of feeds - public photos and videos, favorites, friends, group pools, discussions, and more. The API can also be used to upload photos and video.The Flickr API supports many protocols including REST, SOAP, XML-RPC.

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Flickr: Highlights

Summary
Photo sharing service
Category
Photos
Tags
Protocols
REST, SOAP, XML-RPC
Data Formats
XML, JSON, PHP
API home
http://code.flickr.com 
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Flickr: Specifications

Functionality

API Groups
auth, blogs, contacts, favorites, groups, interestingness, people, photos, photosets, reflection, tags, test, urls  
Example API Methods
photos.addTags, people.getInfo, tags.getRelated  
Client Install Required
 
Service Endpoint
http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/
Service Endpoint
http://api.flickr.com/services/soap/

Signup and Licensing

Signup Requirements
API Key  
Developer Key Required
Yes  
Account Required
Yes  
Commercial Licensing
 
Provider
flickr.com  
Company
Yahoo  
Non-Commercial Lic.
 
Data Licensing
 
Usage Fees
No  
Usage Limits
 
Terms of Service
see Flickr Api Terms of Use 

Security

Authentication Model
API Key 
SSL Support
 
Read-only Without Login
Yes 

Support

Vendor API Kits
 
Community API Kits
ActionScript, Cold Fusion, Common Lisp, cUrl, Delphi, Java, .NET, Perl, PHP, Python, REALbasic, Ruby 
API Blog
code.flickr.com/blog/ 
Site Blog
blog.flickr.net/en 
API Forum
www.flickr.com/groups/api 
Developer Support
Mailing list 

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Mashups, Developers & Source Code

Developers using Flickr[ Add me ]

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  • beardscratcher
  • Betaexplore
  • buffstuff
  • catogeorge
  • christian.maehler
  • ctrlw
  • darrenjames
  • deperu
  • dorjeduck
  • dudeyjon

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Comments 

August 31, 2008
at 03:38
Comment by: invadereki

The Scour search engine now uses Flickr for its image search.

More info: http://blog.scour.com/2008/08/30/improved-results-for-scour-image-searches/

Try Scour: http://scour.com/invite/invadereki

January 05, 2008
at 16:52
Comment by: salvatore iaconesi

a small new year's flickr mashup i made:

http://www.artisopensource.net/py/PY.html

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