How do I find photos of a person on Flickr?
https://www.flickr.com/people/{path_identifier}/photosof
I’m using the flickr.photos.people.getList API to get a list of people in a given photo, and I wanted some photos to test with. I wasn’t sure how to find photos which have people tagged, but I was able to work it out.
Photos of a single person
The example API response includes an NSID of a Flickr user who was tagged in a photo at some time in the past: 87944415@N00. So I visited their profile, and at the bottom of their page is a section “Photos of Simon Batistoni”. That includes a “View all” link, and clicking it took me to:
https://www.flickr.com/people/hitherto/photosof
Now I know that’s the URL route, I can find photos of other people. For example, this is the (empty) list of photos that I’m tagged in:
https://www.flickr.com/people/alexwlchan/photosof
Photos of multiple people
In the sidebar of that page, there’s a link: “Anyone ever snapped a picture of the two of you?” Clicking it takes me to a new URL which would show photos of me and the other person (if there were any photos tagged with me):
https://www.flickr.com/photosof/me+hitherto
You can put other path identifiers in here, and they’ll combine as an AND query. Here’s one more example: a list of photos which tag three different people.
https://www.flickr.com/photosof/hitherto+48857242@N00+straup