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How to get camera on which known photo was taken

my question concerns the API of flickr.com. Type of camera is visible below each photo directly on the site, but I do not see any method in the API which allow to obtain it from my application. Does anybody know the solution?

Solution

  • Use the flickr.photos.getExif endpoint, and then examine the tag="Make" and tag="Model" data that you get back. An example snippet of returned data:

    <exif tagspace="IFD0" tagspaceid="0" tag="Make" label="Make">
  <raw>NIKON</raw>
</exif>
<exif tagspace="IFD0" tagspaceid="0" tag="Model" label="Model">
  <raw>COOLPIX L620</raw>
</exif>