Automatic blog posts of Flickr sets Feb11 '07

Here's what I'd like:

Whenever I upload new photo sets to Flickr, I immediately want a new blog post created showing a random sample of the photos, along with the "photo set" title and description.

I want this to happen automatically when I upload photos to Flickr. I don't want to have to manually go back and create a Flickr badge, then create a blog post, etc. That's too many extra steps.

If I can figure out how to use the Flickr API, maybe I can create something like this.

It hardly looks like "easy Sunday afternoon reading material," but it might not be that bad.

I'd imagine the process could go something like this:

  1. Some kind of process runs on my web hosts' end, which continually checks for updates to my photo sets.
  2. When the process sees new photo sets, it extracts relevant information, and creates a blog post in my database.

I'd like to do this because Flickr only acts as a repository for my photos - it's not "part of my site" in any way - so if I can't "pipe" data into another application, Flickr becomes useless.

Categories: API , Flickr

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