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.