Repository files navigation

Python-Flickr is A Python library to interface withFlickr REST API & OAuth

• Photo Uploading
• Retrieve user information

• Common Flickr methods

  • Add/edit/delete comments
  • Add/edit/delete notes
  • And many more (very dynamic library)!!

• All responses return as nice dicts

Installing Python-Flickr is simple:

$ pip install python-flickr

f = FlickrAPI(api_key='*your app key*',          api_secret='*your app secret*',          callback_url='http://www.example.com/callback/')auth_props = f.get_authentication_tokens()auth_url = auth_props['auth_url']#Store this token in a session or something for later use in the next step.oauth_token = auth_props['oauth_token']oauth_token_secret = auth_props['oauth_token_secret']print 'Connect with Flickr via: %s' % auth_url

Once you click "Allow" be sure that there is a URL set up to handle getting finalized tokens and possibly adding them to your database to use their information at a later date.

# oauth_token and oauth_token_secret come from the previous step# if needed, store those in a session variable or somethingf = FlickrAPI(api_key='*your app key*',              api_secret='*your app secret*',              oauth_token=oauth_token,              oauth_token_secret=oauth_token_secret)authorized_tokens = f.get_auth_tokens(oauth_verifier)final_oauth_token = authorized_tokens['oauth_token']final_oauth_token_secret = authorized_tokens['oauth_token_secret']# Save those tokens to the database for a later use?

# Get the final tokens from the database or wherever you have them storedf = FlickrAPI(api_key='*your app key*',              api_secret='*your app secret*',              oauth_token=final_tokens['oauth_token'],              oauth_token_secret=final_tokens['oauth_token_secret'])recent_activity = f.get('flickr.activity.userComments')print recent_activity

# Assume you are using the FlickrAPI instance from the previous sectionadd_comment = f.post('flickr.photos.comments.addComment',                     params={'photo_id': '6620847285', 'comment_text': 'This is a test comment.'})#This returns the comment id if successful.print add_comment

# Assume you are using the FlickrAPI instance from the previous section# If the comment is already deleted, it will throw a FlickrAPIError (In this case, with code 2: Comment not found.)del_comment = f.post('flickr.photos.comments.deleteComment', params={'comment_id':'45887890-6620847285-72157628767110559'})print del_comment

# Assume you are using the FlickrAPI instance from the previous sectionfiles = open('/path/to/file/image.jpg', 'rb')add_photo = f.post(params={'title':'Test Title!'}, files=files)print add_photo  # Returns the photo id of the newly added photo

# Assume you are using the FlickrAPI instance from the previous sectiontry:    # This comment was already deleted    del_comment = f.post('flickr.photos.comments.deleteComment', params={'comment_id':'45887890-6620847285-72157628767110559'})except FlickrAPIError, e:    print e.msg    print e.code    print 'Something bad happened :('