flickr slideshows
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May 22, 2006 at 10:58 pm)
· Filed under api
, flickr , javascript , perl , photos , scripts
Now let’s see if I can pull out the tags…back to the flickr api page. OK, it’s not obvious by name, but getListPhoto sounds like it will give me what I want, except that I’ll have to check each picture. Tedious. OK here’s what I want: Search (duh). So let’s see…that was pretty painless, replace the second method call above with
[code lang=”perl”]
$response = $api->execute_method (’flickr.photos.search’,
{ ‘user_id’ => $userid,
‘tags’ => ‘families’, });
[/code]
and since the xml returned is the same format, no other changes. So I think this is ready for the big time!! Except of course that SCLRR’s host is not ready for me 
Digital Ramble » Blog Archive » flickr api tip said,
September 5, 2006 @ 12:49 pm
[…] In another quick and simple process, I personalized my About page a little with a bit of flickr html/java that they supply. Of course I’ve worked directly with their API, but in this case that’d be using a sledgehammer, since the good folks at flickr also provide a nice little javascript snippet to randomly select a couple of pictures/thumbnails to drop right in. I went to flickr’s badge generation page (logged in as moi, of course) to get started. […]