Short Flickr URLs

Flickr supports linking to a photo page using a short url such as http://flic.kr/p/6BTTT6. The flickrapi.shorturl module contains functionality for working with those short URLs.

flickrapi.shorturl.encode(photo ID):

Returns the short ID for this photo ID

flickrapi.shorturl.encode(short ID):

Returns the photo ID for this short ID

flickrapi.shorturl.url(photo ID):

Returns the short URL for the given photo ID.

The photo ID, the short ID and the short URL are all unicode strings.