How to access private photos through Flickrj Api?

Question

I'm making an authenticated call to access photos through Flickr API. But I am only getting my public photos but not any private photos.

Given below is the code I'm using,

Flickr f;
 RequestContext requestContext;
 String frob = "";
 String token = "";

 DocumentBuilder xmlParser = null;


 public void getImages() throws ParserConfigurationException, IOException, SAXException, FlickrException, URISyntaxException, NoSuchAlgorithmException
 {

  DocumentBuilderFactory dcb = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
        try {
            this.xmlParser = dcb.newDocumentBuilder();
        } catch (ParserConfigurationException ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }



  f = new Flickr("199d038ad88f6c6c377a4ab2341fb60f","4583b2386d3d6439",new REST()) ;
  Flickr.debugStream = false;
  requestContext = RequestContext.getRequestContext();
  AuthInterface authInterface = f.getAuthInterface();
  //PeopleInterface peopleInterface = f.getPeopleInterface();

  try {
  frob = authInterface.getFrob();
  } catch (FlickrException e) {
  e.printStackTrace();
  }
  System.out.println("frob: " + frob);


  java.net.URL url =authInterface.buildAuthenticationUrl(Permission.READ, frob);

  System.out.println(url.toExternalForm());

  Desktop desktop = Desktop.getDesktop();
  desktop.browse(url.toURI());


  // Get the response
  Auth auth = null ;
  String aLine = "";

  while(aLine.equals(""))
  {

   java.io.DataInputStream in = new java.io.DataInputStream(System.in);
   aLine = in.readLine();

  }

  auth =authInterface.getToken(frob);
  System.out.println("auth = "+auth);
  requestContext = RequestContext.getRequestContext();
  requestContext.setAuth(auth);
  f.setAuth(auth);

  UrlsInterface urlsInterface = f.getUrlsInterface();
  PhotosInterface photosInterface = f.getPhotosInterface();




  SearchParameters searchParams=new SearchParameters();
     searchParams.setSort(SearchParameters.INTERESTINGNESS_DESC);




     //Execute search with entered tags

     searchParams.setUserId(auth.getUser().getId());


     PhotoList photoList=photosInterface.search(searchParams, 10,1);


     if(photoList!=null){
        //Get search result and check the size of photo result
        for(int i=0;i<photoList.size();i++){
            Photo photo=(Photo)photoList.get(i);

           System.out.println(photo.getSmallSquareUrl());

        }

     }

Answer 1

I managed to solve this problem by following a different approach.

This is how i solved this. Instead of using the GET method I used the getList method in photoSetsInterface (photoSetsInterface.getList(auth.getUser().getId()).getPhotosets()) .For this method you can pass the auth_token as an input parameter. Therefore it gives you all the photo sets. Then I took each photoset and retrived images under all privacy levels.

And then you can take all the photos that are not in a set by using the getNotInSet method in PhotosInterface. getNotInSet method returns all the photos not in a set regardless of the privacy level.

You can find the sample code in my blog.