Flickr API Profile

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: photo video

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

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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