Flickr
Flickr (www.flickr.com) is a social media site for sharing photos that launched in 2004, and still exists today.
I worked at the Flickr Foundation between 2023 and 2025, where we explored ways to keep Flickr pictures visible for 100 years. These entries are my notes on working with Flickr and Flickr’s API.
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flapi.sh: a tiny command-line tool for exploring the Flickr API
Combining several existing tools to make something that allows for quick experiments and exploration.
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How do I find photos of a person on Flickr?
https://www.flickr.com/people/{path_identifier}/photosofHow does Flickr’s getLicenseHistory handle photos with no license changes?
What does Flickr return in the
flickr.photo.getSizesAPI for videos?The video’s owner will get the URL to the original video file as “Video Original”, otherwise you should look for the largest video size.
What is the
author_namein the list of tags on a Flickr photo?When you call the
flickr.photos.getInfoAPI, each tag is attributed to an author. Theauthor_nameis their username, not their realname.How to get a user’s email address with the Flickr API
The
flickr.profile.getProfileAPI returns somebody’s email address, but only if you’re allowed to see it.How do the
ispublic,isfriendandisfamilyflags work in the Flickr API?What happens when you replace a photo on Flickr?
The acronym “woe” in the Flickr API stands for “Where On Earth”