Question

I have a web application that I want to sync with Flickr. I don’t want the users to have to log into Flickr so I plan to use a single login. I believe I’ll need to do something like this:

import flickrapi
flickr = flickrapi.FlickrAPI(myKey, mySecret)
(token, frob) = flickr.get_token_part_one(perms='write', my_auth_callback)
flickr.get_token_part_two((token, frob,))
flickr.what_have_you(...

I don’t know what my_auth_callback should look like though. I suspect it will have to post my login information to flickr. Could I do the get_token_part_one step just once manually perhaps and then re-use it in get_token_part_two?

Edit

Wooble has it. Here are some explicit directions that I wrote down using the Django shell and the flickrapi library.

import flickrapi
api_key = "xxxx...xxxx"
api_secret = "xxxx...xxxx"
_flickr = flickrapi.FlickrAPI(api_key, api_secret)
_flickr.web_login_url("write")
# Go to that url.
# That sends you back to the callback url you set by "editing the
# authentication workflow" on your flicks admin page located on the site.
# This callback url will contain a frob in the form
# xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx
_flickr.get_token("xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx")
# That returns the token. Then test with

import flickrapi
from django.conf import settings
_flickr = flickrapi.FlickrAPI(api_key, api_secret, token=api_token)
_flickr.groups_pools_getGroups()

Answer 1

If you don’t want your users to authenticate with Flickr, you don’t need to use the token-getting code at all. Just get a token for yourself once and include it with your code.

Note that “syncing” other users’ photos with your own account probably breaks Flickr’s TOS.