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Getting photos from Flickr using YQL
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Following code gets information about photos from Flickr via YQL for the given search term | |
Author : avinash | |
Email : avinash@tutkiun.com | |
<--> | |
<h2>Using YQL to Access the Flickr API</h2> | |
<form name='upcoming_form'> | |
Search: <input name='keyword' id='keyword' type='text' size='20'/><br/> | |
<p><button id='find_event'>Find Photo</button></p> | |
</form> | |
<?php | |
$yql_base_url = "http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql"; | |
if(isset($_GET['keyword'])){ | |
$keyword = $_GET['keyword']; | |
//query for searching photo and getting related information to it | |
$yql_query = "select * from flickr.photos.info where photo_id in (select id from flickr.photos.search where text='$keyword')"; | |
//generating url | |
$yql_query_url = $yql_base_url . "?q=" . urlencode($yql_query); | |
//getting the result output in json format | |
$yql_query_url .= "&format=json"; | |
$session = curl_init($yql_query_url); | |
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true); | |
$json = curl_exec($session); | |
$flickrObj = json_decode($json); | |
foreach($flickrObj->query->results->photo as $photo) { | |
echo "<br/>"; | |
echo "ID : ".$photo->id; | |
echo "<br/>"; | |
echo "Title : ".$photo->title; | |
echo "<br/>"; | |
echo "Description : ".$photo->description; | |
echo "<br/>"; | |
echo "Uploaded Date : ".$photo->dateuploaded; | |
echo "<br/>"; | |
echo "Owner : ".$photo->owner->realname; | |
echo "<br/>"; | |
echo "Photo Taken On : ".$photo->dates->taken; | |
echo "<br/>"; | |
echo "Link : ".$photo->urls->url->content ; | |
echo "<br/>"; | |
//generate url for display photos of size medium | |
$url = $source = "http://farm".$photo->farm.".static.flickr.com/".$photo->server."/".$photo->id."_".$photo->secret."_m.jpg"; | |
?> | |
<img src=<?php echo $url; ?>> | |
<?php | |
} | |
} | |
unset($_GET); | |
?> |
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