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Welcome to Python Flickr API’s documentation!¶

Flickr is one of the most popular photo sharing websites. Their public API makes it very easy to write applications that use Flickr some way or another. The possibilities are limitless. This document describes how to use the Flickr API in your Python programs using the Python Flickr API interface.

Contents:

  • Introduction
    • Concepts
    • Installation
    • Requirements and compatibility
    • Upgrading
  • Calling API functions
    • Parsing the return value
    • Response format: JSON
    • Response parser: ElementTree
    • Response parser: XMLNode
    • Erroneous calls
    • Unparsed response formats
  • Authentication and Authorization
    • Non-web applications
    • Authenticating without local web server
    • Authenticating web applications
    • Token handling in web applications
    • Preventing usage of on-disk token cache
    • Configuring location of on-disk token cache
    • Multiple processes using the same key
    • Example using Django
  • Uploading or replacing images
    • flickr.upload(…)
    • flickr.replace(…)
  • Unicode and UTF-8
  • Caching of Flickr API calls
    • Using the Django caching framework
  • Utility methods
    • Walking through all photos in a set
    • Walking through a search result
    • Influencing the number of calls to Flickr
  • Short Flickr URLs
  • Links

Indices and tables¶

  • Index

  • Module Index

  • Search Page

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