Flickr is one of the most
popular photo hosting websites on the planet. Their extensive
API gives
programmers plenty of opportunity to use Flickr any way they see
fit.
The easy to use Flickr API has several interfaces written in
Python, the best one created by Beej. I've been the maintainer for
this interface since augustus 2007. It's the easiest to
use, most mature and feature-rich Python interface to
Flickr.
Features that set this Flickr API interface apart from other
Python implementations:
- Actively developed.
- Extensive documentation,
including usage examples.
- Support for uploading and replacing photos.
- Automatically keeps track of your authentication
credentials. No need to pass them on every Flickr API
call.
- Tab completion of all Flickr API functions in
IPython.
- Caching framework.
- Support for different communication protocols, such as
REST and JSon.
- Different XML parsers to suit your taste and
platform.
If you're using our Python Flickr API implementation and you
want to be included in this list, drop me a
line. Entries shown in bold have been generous in the form of
a recent donation.
If your Linux distribution ships the package
python-flickrapi try installing that. At least
Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora ship with my Python Flickr API package.
It probably won't be the latest and greatest, but it's easy to
install.
If you have SetupTools on
your computer, you can use that to download and install the
package. It is by far the easiest method to get
the latest Python Flickr API installed:
easy_install flickrapi
You can then always update to the latest version using:
easy_install -U flickrapi
As an alternative you can install from source. Get the source archive,
extract it and run setup.py:
tar zxvf flickrapi-(version).tar.gz
cd flickrapi-(version)
sudo python setup.py install
If you get an error about "sudo" not existing as a command, try
it without the "sudo".
The development version of the source is stored in a
Git
repository at GitHub.
The documentation is
hosted here, and is also included in the source code.
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