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Hosting web site images: Flickr PRO, Amazon S3 or...?

Hi all, I'd like to save some of my site monthly bandwidth allocation and I'm wondering if I can use Flickr PRO or I should rely on Amazon S3 as an hosting service for my web site images. (My Web Application allows users to upload their own pictures and at the moment it's managing around 40GB of data) I've never used Amazon's services an...

flickr photos from flickr_fu come back with a different id everytime

@photos = flickr.photosets.get_list(:user_id => Flickr_Keys::USER_ID).find_all{|set| set.id== @gallery.flickr_id}[0].get_photos @photos[0].id "4016105430" But everytime i run this piece of code in irb, i get a different id for each request. Whats up with that? Am I supposed to use the 'secret' property as a unique identifier ? ...

Android: BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray gives pixelated bitmap

I am working on an Android app that displays photos which are downloaded from Flickr. I obtain a bitmap object from a byte array, which in turn is read from the relevant Flickr URL, as follows: BitmapFactory.Options opt = new BitmapFactory.Options(); opt.inDither = true; opt.inPreferredConfig = Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888; Bitmap bitmap = B...

Why isn't the Flickr API RESTful?

I'm about to start developing a REST API for a client's website and I've been doing some research. I came accross this useful SO question on the gold standard for APIs: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/297005 Prior to reading this post I'd thought about using the Flickr API as a point of reference. However this comment on the above qu...

How do I access the XML from a flickr.photos.search API call?

My client's system needs to access private photos from their Flickr account using the flickr.photos.search API call. I set it up and got the generated URL for that call. When I visit that URL in the browser, it outputs XML like it should. (API reference: http://www.flickr.com/services/api/flickr.photos.search.html) However, in PHP I wa...

How to find out if a user has a flickr pro account?

I am trying to find out how I can tell if a user has a pro account? This is because I am interested in the upload file size limits for a user which differ based on whether the user has a pro account or not. I looked on the official API pages of flickr but found nothing. http://www.flickr.com/services/api/ Does anyone know how to retri...

jQuery Flickr REST API call returns nothing?

I create a Flickr account, create an app and got my API key, created a few photo sets and tested the API call using their API explorer to get the following URL to call: http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.photosets.getList&api_key=65746342db5d734353b08cd63398a4b4&user_id=21466829@N07&format=json In the browse...

results are appended into iframe every invocation

I have an iframe that displays thumbnail images from Flickr in my web application. The problem, I see is when I reload the page, sometimes, I see the same set of images being appended to the earlier set of images. So I get two sets of every image and on a subsequent reload, I get 3 sets of images. The images are part of a form. So I se...

Images in IFRAME no longer showing after I log out of Flickr?

I have a iframe window which displays user's flickr images. I use the flickr.photos.search api to download the user's image from flickr. This works great when the user is logged into flickr. But when I explicitly log off the user from flickr and the yahoo network and then attempt to download the flickr images, I get redirected to www.y...

IE 6 doesn't load other Flickr photos from photo stream

I checked this in firebug lite, and it's loading everything into the DOM properly, but immediately hangs on the second image. When I try visiting the images individually they don't load either. Any ideas? I should also point out that this script works fine in: IE7, IE8, Firefox 2,3, and Safari. $(document).ready(function() { var reg...

upload image in flickr from iphone

Hi All, I am developing a application where i want to load the image on flickr.I have seen the Snap and Run project where i tried to share the image using my API key but cannot do it. its giving response as invalid callback url. Can anyone help me with this as I am not able to do this,, Thanks in advance, ...

upload image in flickr from iphone

uploading image into flickr , flickr API provided NSInputStream *imageStream = [NSInputStream inputStreamWithData:imageData]; [request uploadImageStream:imageStream suggestedFilename:@"Foobar.jpg" MIMEType:@"image/jpeg" arguments:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:@"0", @"is_public", nil]]; but its not working. is ...

Flickr API automated login using Python library flickrapi

I have a web application that I want to sync with Flickr. I don't want the users to have to log into Flickr so I plan to use a single login. I believe I'll need to do something like this: import flickrapi flickr = flickrapi.FlickrAPI(myKey, mySecret) (token, frob) = flickr.get_token_part_one(perms='write', my_auth_callback) flickr.get_t...

How to detect if a user has logged in to flickr?

Hello, What is the right way to find out if a user has logged in to Flickr? I have an iframe in my application which lets user's download their images from Flickr. But if the user is not logged into flickr, then flickr redirects me OUT of the iframe to the yahoo home page. I would like to do the following: - Check if the user has logge...

SimplePie not parsing flickr feed

I am trying to use SimplePie to pull a group pool flickr feed: $feed = new SimplePie(); $feed->set_feed_url('http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/groups_pool.gne?id=25938750@N00&lang=en-us&format=rss_200'); $feed->init(); $feed->handle_content_type(); Then I use typical SimplePie php calls to loop through the feed items. How...

Bug in Flickr API or is my understanding incorrect?

I'm trying to use the flickr API to get the listing of photos in a pool and so I am using the getPhotos method. I'm only passing in the single mandatory argument of the group ID (in my case "1108839@N25"). The response begins by telling me that there are 19 photos in this response: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <rsp stat="o...

Is it possible to pull Flickr photos based on search term?

Is it possible to pull photos from the Flickr API based on a search term? Not necessarily something from my profile, but from any public photo that matches the search term. Or is the Flickr API only for pulling your own, or another authenticated users, photos? Thanks! ...

flickr API calls

Hi, im interested how many api calls per second or per minute i can do with my flickr API Key? is there a limit or is it unlimited? ...

iPhone:Upload photo to flickr

hi all, I am developing a application where i want to load the photo on flickr. i don't want to use the toolkit. I want to use flickr API.I read the API documentation of flickr but there are no API to upload photo on particular account. All API related to Garden not to user account. i simply want to user will supply username and passwor...

Objectiveflickr set properties, more than one call

I cant to set Meta and set Location in ObjectiveFlickr if I do only one it works fine, but if I do both it only does the first one - (void)flickrAPIRequest:(OFFlickrAPIRequest *)inRequest didCompleteWithResponse:(NSDictionary *)inResponseDictionary { NSLog(@"%s %@ %@", PRETTY_FUNCTION, inRequest.sessionInfo, inResponseDictio...