flickrinfo.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import pprint
import re
import sys

try:
    from flickrapi import FlickrAPI
    from flickrapi.exceptions import FlickrError
except ImportError:
    sys.stderr.write('Please, install FlickrAPI for Python first!\n')
    sys.exit(1)


__author__ = 'Igor Davydenko'
__version__ = '0.1'

# Get your own Flickr API key at http://www.flickr.com/services/api/keys/
FLICKR_API_KEY = 'top-secret-key'
FLICKR_RE = re.compile(
    r'^http://farm(?P<farm>[0-9]+).static.flickr.com/' + \
    r'(?P<server>\w+)/(?P<photo_id>\w+)_(?P<secret>\w+)_.*'
)

def main():
    if len(sys.argv) == 1:
        sys.stderr.write('Please, enter one or more Flickr URLs! (Separate ' \
                         'URLs by space)\n')
        sys.exit(1)

    flickr = FlickrAPI(FLICKR_API_KEY, format='etree')
    urls = sys.argv[1:]

    try:
        flickr.test_echo(foo='bar')
    except FlickrError:
        sys.stderr.write('Please, check your Flick API key!\n')
        sys.exit(1)

    for url in urls:
        print_info(flickr, url)

def print_info(flickr, url):
    print url
    print '-' * len(url)

    if not FLICKR_RE.match(url):
        print 'Your URL could not matched as Flickr URL\n'
        return False

    matched = FLICKR_RE.search(url).groupdict()

    try:
        info_tag = flickr.photos_getInfo(photo_id=matched['photo_id'],
                                         secret=matched['secret'])
    except FlickrError:
        print 'Could not get info for this URL\n'
        return False

    print

    owner = info_tag.find('photo/owner')
    title = info_tag.find('photo/title')
    description = info_tag.find('photo/description')
    urls = info_tag.findall('photo/urls/url')

    print 'Owner\n~~~~~\n'
    print 'NSID:', owner.get('nsid')
    print 'Username:', owner.get('username')
    print 'Real name:', owner.get('realname'), '\n'

    print 'Information\n~~~~~~~~~~~\n'
    print 'Title:', title.text
    print 'Description:', description.text
    print 'URLs:', [url.text for url in urls], '\n'

    return True

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()