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Need to show pictures from flickr on my site tagged a certain tag


*I'm been going over the available apis and programs out there but what I need is a way to pictures from flickr on my site. Most of the programs I have seen only show pictures that belong to a certain ID. Is there a way to show any picture that is tagged with a certain tag? Like if I need to show pictures tagged Cat on my site how can I do it.

I would be interested in a php based library or if theres something like a jquery plugin that can do it that would be all the better

Thanks - I'm using the zend framework for my application.


Solution

  • What about the flickr.photos.search method of the API ?

    Quoting :

    Return a list of photos matching some criteria.
    Only photos visible to the calling user will be returned. To return private or semi-private photos, the caller must be authenticated with 'read' permissions, and have permission to view the photos.
    Unauthenticated calls will only return public photos.

    And, a bit lower on that page, it seems there is a parameter to filter by tags :

    tags (Facultatif)
    A comma-delimited list of tags.
    Photos with one or more of the tags listed will be returned.
    You can exclude results that match a term by prepending it with a - character.


    For example, to search for cats :

    http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.photos.search&api_key=ee8c6bd0a9d778dba873a3bffed6e503&tags=cat
    

    Note : only quickly tried using the API Explorer.