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Noam
Noam

Reputation: 3391

Getting flickr thumbnail

I'm trying to get a thumbnail of flickr pictures in PHP.

All I saw was this in their API: http://www.flickr.com/services/api/misc.urls.html

Which is a overkill. In instagr.am/twitpic and others I found a very easy way of doing so (just adding to the url the request).

Is there an option with flickr I'm missing?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 3488

Answers (6)

Tac Tacelosky
Tac Tacelosky

Reputation: 3426

Use the getPhotos api call:

https://www.flickr.com/services/api/flickr.photosets.getPhotos.html

Then follow jamal's suggestion on mapping.

 return sprintf('https://live.staticflickr.com/%s/%s_%s_%s.%s',
            $record['server'],
            $record['id'],
            $record['secret'],
            $size,
        $format
        );

Upvotes: 0

Jamal Fanaian
Jamal Fanaian

Reputation: 391

If you have the URL to the Flickr image, all you have to do is modify the suffix to get a different size of the photo. For example:

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/2/1418878_1e92283336_m.jpg

This URL loads the medium sized photo. If we simply change the _m to _t, we would get the thumbnail:

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/2/1418878_1e92283336_t.jpg

You can also use s for small, z for medium, and b for large.

Upvotes: 11

Pons
Pons

Reputation: 1776

If you know the username of the flickr user you can try to use this small bot. It uses the feed to retrieve the last images of the user, so it works only on the last images... I hope it will help you.

Upvotes: 0

Noam
Noam

Reputation: 3391

For future readers, flickr doesn't support the simple functionality that other photo sharing services does. So the answer to my question is you can't.

Upvotes: 0

ceejayoz
ceejayoz

Reputation: 180024

You can parse the photo's ID out of the URL and get the thumbnail URL via flickr.photos.getSizes. This is likely how Twitpic/Instagram handle it.

Upvotes: 0

Sukumar
Sukumar

Reputation: 3587

You could just use a PHP wrapper around Flickr API and keep it simple - http://phpflickr.com/

Upvotes: 3

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