Flickr API Help
Posted on October 8th, 2006by Michael Gray in Ideas, Random Thoughts, Tools
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Does anyone know of resource that shows you how to use flickr’s API that’s written in english so that actual people can understand it. Something with examples is always helpful. This from Flickr is about the most god awful thing I have ever tried to read in my enitire life.
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October 9th, 2006 at 12:04 am
There’s quite a bit of info out on the net on REST type APIs. I’m not sure if you’ve had experience with them in the past, but you would do an HTTP request and pass the appropriate querystring variables. That will execute the request on the server and then will return you XML that you will need to parse.
Each of the items that Flickr is documenting on their site is a request object with the appropriate XML response. You can execute the HTTP request in virtually any language (With JavaScript be sure to use a cross-browser supported request or write your own).
To parse the response XML, you can utilize any language as well. You can familiarize yourself with the DOM object or parse the XML utilizing XPath in the language of your choice.
Perhaps some examples of the scenarios you are attempting to execute?
I always advice my clients to include code samples in multiple languages as well as common scenarios. Flickr should have a Developer Community, it would make it much easier.
October 9th, 2006 at 5:10 am
I found the way to learn was to find an example that did something, and figure out what it was doing, then tweak it by adding in the function I want to use
October 9th, 2006 at 1:21 pm
Maybe it’s because I’m a programmer, but I found the Flicker API help to be very easy to understand and use. But in any event, I found this…
http://skimstone.x-port.net/node/92
October 10th, 2006 at 8:22 am
Not a programmer I know just enough to power through and completely muck something up. Thanks for the link was helpful.
October 10th, 2006 at 10:29 am
Sort of off topic…is it better to host any images on your blog from Flickr?