The Flickr APIby Amit Kumar

All photos Creative Commons licensed and sourced from Flickr.com, attribution in slide notes.

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What is

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Photo sharing community website

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lets you discover the world

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across all screens

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Photos for life

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And video too

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Why should I care ?

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People take photos

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People take photos(a lot)

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People(a lot) take photos (a lot)

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And from many devices

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Tag

GeoTag

Connect

Share

Comment

Favorite

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> 80 million members

> 3.5 million photo uploads/day

> 8 billion photo uploads

> 300 million photos geotagged

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How ?

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(flickr for robots)

Flickr API

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http://www.flickr.com/services/apps/create/apply/

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API Authentication

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

No Passwords Just Tokens!

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Can do (almost) anything that Flickr can do

Access Meta data

Write!

Tags

Geo

exif

More!

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http://flickr.com/services/api

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Photo and Photoset APIs

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Group and Contacts APIs

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Interesting APIs

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Interesting APIs Continued

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> 200 API Methods

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API EXPLORER

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HTTP - http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.photos.getRecent&api_key=****

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Or use

YQL

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http://www.flickr.com/services/api/misc.urls.html

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Demo

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What We like ?

labs.systemone.at/retrievr

App Garden (http://www.flickr.com/services/)

What would you build?

Have FUN