Flickr hacking

Flickr API

• The Flickr API

Tools

• Tools for Leeching Flicker photos
• The Great Flickr Tool Collection
• Automated Matlab an Python Code by Tamara Berg and James Hays (CMU)

Flickr from Ruby

There is a gem called rflickr that does all the Flickr API work for you. Some guides on how to set it up and use it can be found below:

• rflickr from Rails
• Using rflickr
• Getting started with rflickr on Rails

Flickr from Python

• Beej's API

Flickrfs

• This is a virtual file system that makes uploading/downloading/searching flickr very easy. Flickrfs
• I modified it a little bit to download all search results instead of just the first 500 ones. It also renames the images with the title and id to correctly get different images with the same title. Flickrfs.zip