Using the Flickr API to retrieve a list of photosets
Oct 10, 2007
Lots of good work has been done on the Flickr API with ColdFusion already: specifically, CFlickr - see http://chris.m0nk3y.net/projects/CFlickr/.
However, for my uses, I didn't need anything near as complicated: All I wanted to do was to pull a list of photosets, their titles, primary thumbnail and description.
Thankfully, this is quite easy due to the Flickr API.
Part One: Making the request to Flickr
I'm assuming you have an API code, and know your userID:
Part Two: Output: I've got my XML data, and now just need to loop over the Array.
And that's it: I've cached the XML data in the Application scope for speed, and I'm looping over the XML data object. If a description exists for the set, it's output.
frustrated wrote on 06/01/11 3:24 PM