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• TIL: How do I find photos of a person on Flickr?

  https://www.flickr.com/people/{path_identifier}/photosof

• TIL: How does Flickr’s getLicenseHistory handle photos with no license changes?

• TIL: What does Flickr return in the flickr.photo.getSizes API 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.

• TIL: What is the author_name in the list of tags on a Flickr photo?

  When you call the flickr.photos.getInfo API, each tag is attributed to an author. The author_name is their username, not their realname.

• TIL: How to get a user’s email address with the Flickr API

  The flickr.profile.getProfile API returns somebody’s email address, but only if you’re allowed to see it.

• TIL: How do the ispublic, isfriend and isfamily flags work in the Flickr API?

• Putting history on the map

  Antarctic explorers, northern factories, and Hawaiian industry – I wrote about some of the photos I found using the interactive map in the Flickr Commons Explorer.

• The surprising utility of a Flickr URL parser

  I made a library that knows how to read lots of different forms of Flickr.com URL, and I used hyperlink to do it.

• 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.

• The new Flickr Commons Explorer

  A new way to browse the photos in the Flickr Commons programme.

• TIL: What happens when you replace a photo on Flickr?

• TIL: The acronym “woe” in the Flickr API stands for “Where On Earth”