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From finding photographs and illustrating news feeds to displaying your photos on Google® Maps, you'll discover how to develop a wide range of projects using content from both Flickr and other sources. You'll also gain the skills to design a variety of remixes and mashups that take advantage of Flickr's core services. With the help of numerous hands-on examples integrated throughout the pages, you'll understand how things work so you can quickly produce your own innovative applications.
What you will learn from this book:
- How to use feeds to retrieve photo details
- Methods for using the Flickr API to access items such as tags, sets, groups, and interestingness
- How to use Flickr authentication to access private photos and update information
- How to upload photos from your own applications
- Ways to remix the Flickr web site with Firefox® and Greasemonkey
- Different ways to display photos using ImageMagick
- Techniques for building complex systems that use Flickr as a source of information
- Tips for improving software performance and scalability
Who this book is for
This book is for web developers who have some prior experience with a language such as PHP, JavaScript, or Perl. Everything in the book is explained in detail along with source code, which makes this a useful resource regardless of your experience level.
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Are you the author or publisher of this work? If so, you can claim it as yours by registering as an Unglue.it rights holder.Keywords
- Digital techniques
- Flickr (Electronic resource)
- Image processing
- Mashups (World Wide Web)
- Photography