Question

*I’m been going over the available apis and programs out there but what I need is a way to pictures from flickr on my site. Most of the programs I have seen only show pictures that belong to a certain ID. Is there a way to show any picture that is tagged with a certain tag? Like if I need to show pictures tagged Cat on my site how can I do it.

I would be interested in a php based library or if theres something like a jquery plugin that can do it that would be all the better

Thanks – I’m using the zend framework for my application.

Answer 1

What about the flickr.photos.search method of the API ?

Quoting :

Return a list of photos matching
some criteria.
Only photos visible to the calling user will be
returned. To return private or
semi-private photos, the caller must
be authenticated with ‘read’
permissions, and have permission to
view the photos.
Unauthenticated
calls will only return public photos.

And, a bit lower on that page, it seems there is a parameter to filter by tags :

tags (Facultatif)
A comma-delimited list of tags.

Photos with one or more of the
tags listed will be returned.
You
can exclude results that match a term
by prepending it with a – character.

For example, to search for cats :

http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.photos.search&api_key=ee8c6bd0a9d778dba873a3bffed6e503&tags=cat

Note : only quickly tried using the API Explorer.