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Reputation: 553

Retrieving photos around a given location using the flickr API

I'd like to retrieve photos around specified coordinates from flickr by using the python flickrapi wrapper to their API. My minimal example looks like this:

import flickrapi
api_key = "xxxx"
secret_api_key = "xxxx"
flickr = flickrapi.FlickrAPI(api_key, secret_api_key)

lat = 48.83417
lon = 2.221111
photo_list = flickr.photos.geo.photosForLocation(lat=lat, lon=lon, accuracy=11, format="json")

But, I get empty answers, i.e., photo_list looks like this:

'{"photos":{"page":1,"pages":0,"perpage":100,"total":"0","photo":[]},"stat":"ok"}'

Any ideas about what I might be doing wrong?

EDIT

Turns out, retrieving photos using flickr.photos.search() works just fine.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1346

Answers (2)

Brendan Doherty
Brendan Doherty

Reputation: 148

try with the 'search' call instead of the 'photosForLocation', flickr.photos.geo.forLocation is very specific, and will only return photos with an exact match on the latitude and longitude, apparently

    import flickrapi

    api_key = "<api_key>"
    secret_api_key = "<secret_api_key>"
    flickr = flickrapi.FlickrAPI(api_key, secret_api_key)

    lat = 48.83417
    lon = 2.221111
    photo_list = flickr.photos.search(api_key=api_key, lat=lat, lon=lon, accuracy=11, format='parsed-json')

    print(photo_list)

Upvotes: 2

Dzz
Dzz

Reputation: 553

Turns out, retrieving photos using flickr.photos.search() works just fine.

Upvotes: 0

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