By default, Flickr only displays 20 items in a feed. I wanted to display everything, so I started to dig around in the API. Reading a Flickr forum post gave me the idea of using the Flickr API to pull out the contents of my Photostream so, after applying for an API key, I tried out the following URL:
http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.photos.search&api_key=<em>myapikey</em>&per_page=500&format=feed-rss_200&user_id=<em>myuserid</em>
You can start to get an idea of the various parameters in the Flickr API explorer but it seems that the per_page limit is 50. Even so, by adding a &page=<em>pagenumber</em> to the URL, I can return the next page of results:
http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.photos.search&api_key=<em>myapikey</em>&per_page=500&format=feed-rss_200&user_id=<em>myuserid</em>&page=2
Now all I need to do is work out how to cycle through all the pages and string them together to produce a feed with all of my images in it.
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Mark,
Not sure if you’ve messed around with this since June or not, but I recently just started playing around with JSON to pull my images from Flickr. I haven’t tried your method yet but I am going to tinker around with it tonight. I too would like to pull all of my sets and get them into one large grid. Unfortunately though right now I am using several javascript files for each photo set. If you’re looking for a script to string them all together I may be able to help you out there. Shoot me an email if you’re interested.
Dylan
Hi Mark,
This was exactly what I was looking for. The Flickr API is a great tool but there’s a lack of practical examples around.
I’m now integrating this into a WordPress plugin.
All the best
Dave
I have no expertise to help with this idea, but am very interested to hear how you get on. Especially if you build a WordPress plugin too.
hi Mark,
did you ever figure out how to show more than 50 in this great RSS feed? I’m stuck there too…
cheers, Tom
Hi Tom, I don’t think I did :-( Sadly, Flickr seems to be suffering from underinvestment in features/functionality under Yahoo ownership… shame because it is a great site in so many ways.