Overview
Summary	Photo sharing service
Category	Photos
Tags	photo video
Date Reviewed	2005-10-16
Description	Photo sharing service with extensive community features. A rich API supports variety of protocols including REST, SOAP, XML-RPC.
API Home Page	http://code.flickr.com
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Protocol
Protocols	REST, SOAP, XML-RPC
WSDL
Data Formats	XML, JSON, PHP
Service Endpoint	http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/ http://api.flickr.com/services/soap/
Functionality
API Groups	auth, blogs, contacts, favorites, groups, interestingness, people, photos, photosets, reflection, tags, test, urls
Example API Methods	photos.addTags, people.getInfo, tags.getRelated
Client Install Required
Security
Authentication Model	via developer key
SSL Support
Read-only Without Login	Yes
Support
Vendor API Kits
Community API Kits	ActionScript, Cold Fusion, Common Lisp, cUrl, Delphi, Java, .NET, Perl, PHP, Python, REALbasic, Ruby
API Blog
API Forum
Developer Support	Mailing list
Signup and Licensing
Signup Requirements	API Key
Developer Key Required	Yes
Account with Service Required	Yes
Commercial Licensing
Provider
Non-Commercial Licensing
Data Licensing
Usage Fees	No
Usage Limits
Terms of Service	see Flickr Api Terms of Use

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