DT Flickr

DT Flickr is a spiffy automagically built  Flickr API library for  Python using  JSON.

It requires Python 2.5 or higher and uses  simplejson 1.7 or higher (required for Python 2.5) or the built in json module (Python 2.6 or higher if simplejson is not available). It is released under the  Apache License, Version 2.0.

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Source	dtflickr-1.5.tar.bz2	23.3 kB
Egg	dtflickr-1.5-py2.6.egg	61.0 kB
Windows i386	dtflickr-1.5.win32.exe	214.1 kB
Windows amd64	dtflickr-1.5.win-amd64.exe	241.1 kB

More downloads are available at  Python Package Index : dtflickr.

You can get the code straight from the repository:

svn co http://svn.douglasthrift.net/svn/dtflickr/trunk dtflickr

FreeBSD

On FreeBSD, you can install it from the port  www/py-dtflickr:

cd /usr/ports/www/py-dtflickr
make
make install

Debian/Ubuntu

On Debian or Ubuntu, you can install it from  apt.douglasthrift.net:

aptitude install python-dtflickr

Documentation

Usage Example:

import dtflickr

flickr = dtflickr.Flickr(api_key)
response = flickr.urls.getUserPhotos(user_id = '22264298@N00')

print response.user.url

# Output:
#
# http://www.flickr.com/photos/douglaswth/

DT Flickr also contains some utility functions to assist with some common tasks:

getPhotoSourceURL(photo, size=None)
  Returns a photo source URL.

  Arguments:

    photo (Required)
      A photo response.

    size (Optional)
      A size constant (SmallSquare, Thumbnail, Small, Medium (default), Large, or Original).

getWebPageProfileURL(user_id)
  Returns a web page profile URL of a user.

  Arguments:

    user_id (Required):
      The NSID or username of the user.

getWebPagePhotostreamURL(user_id)
  Returns a web page photostream URL of a user.

  Arguments:

    user_id (Required)
      The NSID or username of the user.

getBuddyiconURL(person, flickr=None)
  Returns a buddyicon URL for a person.

  Arguments:

    person (Required)
      A person response or (if the flickr argument is specified) an NSID of the user.

    flickr (Optional)
      A Flickr API instance used to get a person response.

getURLDetails(url)
  Parses a Flickr URL and returns useful information from it or None if it is not a useful URL.

  This can currently parse photo source, user profile, user photos, photo, set, and buddyicon URLs.

  Arguments:
    url (Required)
      A Flickr URL.