Comments on: How to use jQuery with a JSON Flickr feed to display photos

By: TheJoe

TheJoe — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:29:17 +0000

Hi there,
this one is exactely what i was looking for, an easy way to display photos from my flickr to my site.

I’ve just a question. Is there a way to get photos from a user account instead of a group?

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:39:31 +0000

Right, just to let you know I tried setting my iStart to -2, and it now works correctly, I do not know why I would need to do that… but all is well!

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:37:21 +0000

Hello, I have implemented this correctly, just taking my feed, but it for some bizarre reason doesn’t return the first two photos. Would you know what causes this? I removed the random photo return as I needed it returned in order…

By: MJB

MJB — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:23:51 +0000

Is it possible to cycle the 3×3 grid? I would like to ad something like:

$(‘#images’).cycle({
fx: ‘fade’,
speed: ‘normal’,
timeout: 7000,
next: ‘#next’,
prev: ‘#prev’
});

but cannot figure out how to incorporate it into your code. Thanks for the tutorial!

By: Carlo

Carlo — Sat, 01 May 2010 15:15:39 +0000

I was having the same issue as ChequeredManiac. Then I realised that by changing "groups_pool.gne" to "photos_public.gne" for the images feed call I had it working. Thanks for sharing your work.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 23:15:03 +0000

Hi, I’d just like to add that if you want more images, or more flexibility in terms of the feed, I’d highly recommend using the API with your own developer key. Check out the API Explorer that Flickr has to see how it works. I’m using the getPublicPhotos method and it can provide the url to the larger image, the description of a photo and a lot more. The feeds are basically just generalized versions of the same thing, and while easier to use, they just dont have the power to do everything. Once you play with the API a bit more, you’ll see what I mean. Cheers, and kudos again for the tutorial!

By: Evan

Evan — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 06:24:08 +0000

Hey just wanted to thank you for the exceptionally helpful post. I’ve been spending A LOT of time trying to get my mind wrapped around the flickr api and parsing json and this post helped to paint a clear picture.

For those asking about how to display more than 20 photos… Have a look at this api fuction call: http://www.flickr.com/services/api/flickr.photos.getRecent.html

You’ll want to create a URL like this: http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?&method=flickr.photos.getRecent&api_key=yourAPIkeyhere&per_page=number of photos you want to display]&format=json

Of course, that statement will only get a set number of your MOST RECENT photos.

By: Leslie

Leslie — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:01:59 +0000

Same question as Chris:

Hi, like your code and it’s working just fine.
But can anyone tell me how to get more than 20 items in the feed? I have already figured out that it should be possible using a custom request with a flickr api-key.
Would be very thankful for any hint or example.

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By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:15:42 +0000

Richard,
I was looking for a way to pull the little 75px x 75px thumbnails from Flickr, and this did the trick! Thanks so much :-)