Tag: Flickr

A new application using the Flickr.Net API Library has been launched. Basically allows easy and quick uploading of your web cam images onto Flickr! Cool or what.

Possibly based on the Coding 4 Fun article that tells you how to hook up a web cam using Visual Studio 2005 it looks like everything I was gonna write following my Flickr article (which I can’t find at the moment).

Link to FlickrWebCam

[tags]flickr, webcam, flickrnet, flickrapi, programming[/tags]

A new release of the FlickrNet API Library.

This release includes full support for the new Flickr Geotagging features, including searching by location, getting and setting of photos location information and the permissions associated with that geo information.

Some example code: Searching and Setting Geo Location.

Download the latest release binaries here. and the source code here.

[tags]flickrapi, .net, code, api, geotagging[/tags]

You may be aware that if you have currently got uploaded photos containing GPS data inside the EXIF then this data is not being loaded into Flickr’s new Location database.

The following is a little web app that does just that for you.

http://www.wackylabs.net/dev/georetagr/

It uses phpFlickr and I managed to write it in about 1 day.

Give it a whirl and let me know what you think.

 

[tags]flickr,flickrapi,phpflickr,exif,gps[/tags]

The FlickrNet API Library has a new home, on CodePlex, the new open source hosting platform from Microsoft. I made this decision to try to bring together source code, release files, discussion and documentation into one place, rather than the current situation where it is on two or three different web sites.

http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=FlickrNet

The site feature Discussion Boards, Releases, Source Code and Wiki support.

To go with the move I’ve also made a new release, 2.0.4 which contains methods for supporting adding/editing comments on photos and photosets. There is also experimental support for 23HQ and Zooomr.

[tags]flickr, flickrapi, programming, .net[/tags]

Flickr Mashups Book

I thought I’d mention that I’m currently working as Technical Reviewer for a new book from Wrox about writing Flickr Mashups. To quote:

• Using mashup technologies including REST, Ajax, JSON, SOAP, XML-RPC, CSS and more

• Using Flickr API Objects such as Interestingness, Tags, Sets, Groups and others
• Remixing Flickr with Flickr feeds
• Remixing using the API
• Greasemonkey hacks for Flickr
• Geotagging mashups with maps

So far it looks like its going to be a really good book, and I must congratulate David Wilkinson on his very hard work. David is Operations Manager on the UTATA project/group on Flickr. He also has a photolog and a set of cool Flickr toys (I’d particularly recommend the ‘set manager’).

[tags]flickr, book, wrox, mashup, programming, flickr-api[/tags]

I’ve been published!

I wrote an article a few weeks back for the “Coding 4 Fun” section of the Microsoft MSDN web site and its just gone live!

View the article or download the sample code

Go me!

Update: The article has reappeared on the Coding 4 Fun web site! Hurrah!
[tags]microsoft, flickr, .net, coding4fun, article[/tags]

Just released some bug fixes, plus adding a few more supported methods and parameters to the code.

There are two undocumented features included in this release – the Photo.RawTags return by various search methods, and the TagMode.Boolean search tag mode (boolnea tags take the form of “+findme -notme” – I’ve yet to find a way of including OR searches in boolean tag searches).

[Download and Release Notes](http://www.wackylabs.net/flickr/flickr-api)

[tags]flickr, flickrapi, flickrdotnet, .net[/tags]

A couple of blogs I’ve found about people trying things with the Flickr.Net API recently…

## Flickr.Net and LINQ

LINQ is a new set of APIs from Microsoft for .Net Framework 2.0. It adds a load of really cool language extensions to both C# and VB.Net. Some of these extensions are taken from common dynamic languages like LISP and will really improve peoples productivity I think. Hopefully I’ll write up my review of LINQ from the developer day conference later.

This blog post (remobjects.com) talks about using LINQ with the Flickr.Net API – which apparently is being done now in a real live website which is built using Chrome(I think its an Object Pascal compiler for .Net).

## Flickr.Net and Avalon

The Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly know as Avalon) is used with Flickr.Net in this blog post (Pavan Podilia’s Blog) to create a fairly simple, but nice looking application.

## Flickr.Net and C#

A port of the PHP based Flickr Photo Finder into C# is the basis of this blog post: J Wynia.

[tags]flickr, flickrapi, flickrdotnet, .net, linq, avalon, wpf[/tags]