Picture perfect hacks with flickr API

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… more than just a website

(an API too!)

Sudar MuthuResearch Engineer

Yahoo! Labs

Amateur Photographer

http://sudarmuthu.com

A Photo sharing website

A huge collection of

photos by people from everywhere

Public by default

What is Over 5,000,000,000 Photos…

Can have videos too

Feeds

Simple

Accessible

Allow Casual

Consumers

ReadOnly

Not instant

Can be bandwidth

heavy

API http://flickr.com/services/api

Can do (almost) anything that Flickr can do

Access Meta data

Write!

Tags

Geo

exif

More!

About 100 public

methods

Or use

YQL

API Authentication

http://www.flickr.com/services/api/auth.oauth.html

No Passwords Just Tokens!

Demo

What people have done?

http://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/http://www.flickr.com/services/api/http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/consolehttp://stuvel.eu/flickrapi/http://phpflickr.com/http://sudarmuthu.com/my-talkshttp://sudarmuthu.com/code-samples-to-access-yql

Links

Build Awesome hacks that stand out. Have FUN

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zanastardust/145197704/http://www.flickr.com/photos/sudarmuthu/6263757281/http://www.flickr.com/photos/dsifry/35544221/http://www.flickr.com/photos/pandemia/457723666/ihttp://www.flickr.com/photos/nyuhuhuu/4443886636/http://www.flickr.com/photos/16577536@N00/398429879/http://www.flickr.com/photos/ydn/4407213900/http://www.flickr.com/photos/37134982@N00/753492525/http://www.flickr.com/photos/lachlanhardy/4542178052/http://www.flickr.com/photos/universalpops/4627444598/http://www.flickr.com/photos/oskay/313881232/http://www.flickr.com/photos/kk/20842690/http://www.flickr.com/photos/anshum_m/5875836509/

Photo Credits