Get photos from flickr.photos API?

Question

I want to list photos from flickr account using flickr.photos API using PHP with OAuth.

Right now to get the URLs of the images I am doing it in 2 steps which makes too many requests to the API and takes too much time:

1. First I request the photos using flickr.photos.search
2. then I loop the array of results and call the flickr.photos.getInfo for each photo apart. [result of flickr.photos.search] does not return URL of images, but getInfo does.

Is there a way to get the images with one single request?

Thanks!

Hospers

Answer 1

Found the solution, described here: Flickr Image URLs

You can construct the source URL to a photo once you know its ID, server ID, farm ID and secret, as returned by many API methods.

The URL takes the following format:

http://farm{farm-id}.staticflickr.com/{server-id}/{id}_{secret}.jpg
    or
http://farm{farm-id}.staticflickr.com/{server-id}/{id}_{secret}_[mstzb].jpg
    or
http://farm{farm-id}.staticflickr.com/{server-id}/{id}_{o-secret}_o.(jpg|gif|png)

You can find examples and image size prefixes as well on the source page.

Hospers

In this, how define it is 'jpg' or 'gif' or 'png'? Before this, we calling getPhotos($user_id, $args); This function is not return the extension. Any other method to get extension of the file? – Grunt

Answer 2

If you are planning use Angular, There is an npm package that make you the job.

Checkout it on npm site: https://www.npmjs.com/package/angular-flickr-api-factory

Trochilus