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Flickr, Symphony and a photoblog

8th February 2006  Post a comment

At the newly launched Overture there is an article called "Integrating Flickr", this is something I have been wanting to do but lacked the XSL knowledge to do it. Now with the basic template in place I thought I could experiment to try and do something different with the code.

This is what I came up with - all it basically does is pull all the data from any Flickr RSS feed you give it, manipulate and change some things, then outputs the results where JavaScript takes care of the switching between images. At the moment it is just displaying the latest photos uploaded to Flickr by everyone.

Any feedback you may have would be nice.

UPDATE: Download the source files. If you have any questions please ask.

- David Longworth

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  1. Allen | 9 Feb 06

    Hey that's really awesome :)

  2. Teg | 9 Feb 06

    I am keen to harness the full power of FlickR, having only recently upgraded to the pro account. Would it be possible to make the feed search a particular tag? This would be great so that I could include FlickR photos that relate most to the content of the post on my blog.

  3. David Longworth | 10 Feb 06

    Yes you can Teg! You can customize the RSS feed to get images with as many tags as you want.

  4. Allen | 14 Feb 06

    I keep coming back to this :p

    Can I post this on Overture?

  5. David Longworth | 14 Feb 06

    Sure you can Allen - email me if you want source files.

  6. Stephen Bau | 25 Feb 06

    Thanks for making the source files available. I was able to take this one step further and enable the ability to pass a group name variable in the URL. Check my website link.

  7. David Longworth | 25 Feb 06

    Well done Stephen, I was hoping to inspire something like this. Good work.