Flickr Hack: How to Allow Users to Search Your Flickr Account from Any Web Page

Contributed by MickeyMouse July 15, 2006  
Tagged: Internet

Want users of your blog to be able to search through your flickr account? Oh, yeah… wouldn’t that be coool! Well, here’s the code to do it!

I want people to be able to search my flickr account from my blog. Paste this code into your site, modify it, and you are ready to go!

The hardest part of this is figuring out your unique flickr ID.

I like Chicago Eye’s work so I have used him for an example.

To find your flickr id:

1. Log into flickr
2. At the bottom of your pictures, mouse over the RSS link that looks something like this:

Feeds for ChicagoEye’s photostream Available as RSS 2.0 and Atom

When you mouse over the RSS links on your page, you’ll be able to see your user id. I have bolded ChicagoEye’s id for you.

http://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=70267247@N00&format=rss_200

Replace your id code where ChicagoEye’s code (70267247@N00) is below.



Search ChicagoEye Photos in the example below…

Once you identify your unique flickr id, it is also easy to add a flickr slideshow to your blog as well.