Wednesday, July 18, 2007

A Flickr API Method for Getting Note Coordinates Please

I recently did a rough interface design for an image grouping tool that a client has requested. Having uploaded the file to Flickr, I added some notes explaining how it would work.

What I want now is a way of getting high-quality version of the file (including notes) which I can print or send to the client.

Theoretically I could write a little web application which fetches the image file along with it's notes and their locations from Flickr, and combines this stuff into a PDF for me to print.

Unfortunately this can't be done because the Flickr API only lest you add, edit and delete notes - not get information about existing notes.

So, Flickr people, please add a method for retrieving notes for a particular image.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Actually, the notes can be fetched via the flickr.photos.getInfo method, along with other useful information about the photo. Now, how cool is that?

Danny said...

I stand corrected, thanks for the tip.