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flickr.people.getInfo
Get information about a user.
Authentication
This method does not require authentication.
Arguments
api_key(Required)- Your API application key.See here for more details.
user_id(Required)- The NSID of the user to fetch information about.
Example Response
<personnsid="12037949754@N01"ispro="0"iconserver="122"iconfarm="1"> <username>bees</username> <realname>Cal Henderson</realname> <mbox_sha1sum>eea6cd28e3d0003ab51b0058a684d94980b727ac</mbox_sha1sum> <location>Vancouver, Canada</location> <photosurl>http://www.flickr.com/photos/bees/</photosurl> <profileurl>http://www.flickr.com/people/bees/</profileurl> <photos> <firstdate>1071510391</firstdate> <firstdatetaken>1900-09-02 09:11:24</firstdatetaken> <count>449</count> </photos></person>
Thefirstdate element contains the unix timestamp of the first photo uploaded by the user. Thefirstdatetaken element contains the mysql datetime of the first photo taken by the user.
Theiconserver element is used to build the url to the users' buddyicon - for more information please read thebuddyicon guide.
If the API call is authenticated contact information will also be returned as attributes on the person element.contact,friend, andfamily are boolean flags describing the relationship between theauthenticated user, and the person currently being inspected.revcontact,revfriend, andrevfamily is the reciprocal relationship.
Error Codes
1: User not found- The user id passed did not match a Flickr user.
5: User deleted- The user id passed matched a deleted Flickr user.
100: Invalid API Key- The API key passed was not valid or has expired.
105: Service currently unavailable- The requested service is temporarily unavailable.
106: Write operation failed- The requested operation failed due to a temporary issue.
111: Format "xxx" not found- The requested response format was not found.
112: Method "xxx" not found- The requested method was not found.
114: Invalid SOAP envelope- The SOAP envelope send in the request could not be parsed.
115: Invalid XML-RPC Method Call- The XML-RPC request document could not be parsed.
116: Bad URL found- One or more arguments contained a URL that has been used for abuse on Flickr.