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Pulling images from Flickr

Pulling images from Flickr

Although some may disagree, I think what Twitter is to words, Flickr is to images. Flickr excels in managing and displaying photographs contributed from around the world, and with the available API, you can access and interact with this global imagery. For developers, the best place to start is flickr.com/services/developer. From here, you can quickly reach details about the API, participate in the community, which is a phenomenal one, and learn the finer points of working with different size business apps, and how to properly attribute the imagery you incorporate. So let's dive right in to the API. Now, I'll choose the API from under the Flickr Developer Guide logo that you see there. As noted here, the first step is to request an API key. For this, you'll need to sign into Yahoo. So let me go ahead and click Request an API key. And do that one more time. And that will bring us to Yahoo. Flickr is a Yahoo company after all. So let me go ahead and sign in. Now I'll need to declare…

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