backfeed comments and faves from Flickr

[kylewm]

we have several people POSSEing to Flickr, e.g. https://www.flickr.com/photos/adactio/14604446101, https://www.flickr.com/photos/benwerd/14671472684/

as noted by @tantek in IRC, http://indiewebcamp.com/irc/2014-07-17/line/1405646007

[snarfed]

Flickr would be great! not a priority for me personally, but I'd happily accept PRs, as always.

[kylewm]

did a little research on this... Flickr provides recent comments/faves in a feed, and not via the API methods. and via the API method flickr.activity.userPhotos

The Flickr documentation refers only to an activity feed that has been officially deprecated/disabled for at least 4 years

The feed is now https://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/activity/all?user_id=me&format=json&nojsoncallback=1 and seems to only work if you are logged in to Flickr. I don't know if this can be done via OAuth; in fact I could not find any documentation on the newer feed whatsoever.

[snarfed]

wow, ok. that's pretty convincing...and sad.

i'd say we could use superfeedr to subscribe to the feed and get pinged when there are new items, like we do for blog webmentions right now, but if it requires you to be logged in, and doesn't support oauth, that's kind of a deal breaker. sigh.

[kylewm]

A-ha, flickr.activity.userPhotos is the API method. Rate limited to 1 / hour, very stingy!

[petermolnar]

How about:

• pulling flickr.people.getPhotosOf flickr.people.getPublicPhotos for the list of images; split it into reasonable bunches
• pull flickr.photos.getFavorites with the image ids for "likes"
• and flickr.photos.comments.getList for comments?

In theory none of them requires authentication.

[kylewm]

Hi @petermolnar, that's definitely a reasonable fallback, but it seems like it could be a lot of requests (to support only the 25 most recent photos, it would be 51 requests to the API right?).

I think I would rather work with flickr.activity.userPhotos and just live with the restrictive rate limit (once an hour).

For what it's worth, I backburnered this because nobody POSSEing to Flickr was actually asking for it (tantek had asked on behalf of adactio). Happy to come back to it if there is interest!

[herbsmn]

Hey @kylewm, I would definitely this brid.gy Flickr backfeed with my Flickr Known plugin if you got it working. https://github.com/idno/Flickr

[raucao]

This would be great! Just started POSSEing to Flickr from Known as well, and dearly missing the favs and comments now. :)

Also: I think only checking once an hour is fine.

[kylewm]

Thanks for the feedback @herbsmn and @skddc, I'm working on this a little bit at a time in https://github.com/kylewm/granary/commits/flickr-support

[herbsmn]

thanks for the update @kylewm! I really appreciate it!

[snarfed]

launched! @kylewm want to close this issue?

[kylewm]

haha yes thanks!

[raucao]

Thanks!!