Flickr Mashups or Wild Arms 5

Flickr Mashups

Author: David A Wilkinson

Expert Flickr developer David Wilkinson guides you through a series of software projects that show you how to build mashups using the popular photo service Flickr. He explains the process of remixing Flickr on your own web site and then mashing it up. Along the way, you’ll learn how to take advantage of mashup technologies such as REST, Ajax, RSS, and JSON. Plus, hands-on examples will help you gain the skills to design a variety of remixes and mashups that take advantage of Flickr’s core services.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments     ix
Introduction     xix
Rewriting the Web     3
Web 2.0: Power to the People     3
Remixes and Mashups     3
What Makes a Mashable System?     4
Are You Allowed to Mash the Content?     4
How Easy Is It to Get the Content?     5
Mashup Architectures     5
Mashing on the Client     5
Mashing on the Server     6
Understanding Mashup Tools and Technologies     7
HTML, XHTML, and CSS     7
XML and XPath     9
JavaScript and DOM     11
AJAX     12
JSON     12
Web Servers and HTTP     14
Web Browsers     16
PHP and Perl     16
Regular Expressions     17
REST     19
SOAP     20
XML-RPC     20
Databases     21
Curl     22
Summary     22
Flickr: A Short Tour     21
Creating an Account     23
Account Types     24
Setting a URL     24
Uploading Photographs     24
Photo Formats and Sizes     27
Photo IDs and URLs     27
Organizing Your Photographs     27
The Photostream     28
Sets     29
Organizr     31
Tags     33
NIPSA     35
The Social Network: Contacts, Friends and Family     35
Groups     37
Interestingness     38
Copyright     39
All Rights Reserved     39
Creative Commons     40
Linking Back to Flickr     40
Summary     41
Exercises     41
Getting Ready to Mash     43
Getting an API Key     43
Setting Up a Development Environment     45
Setting Up Your Web Server     46
Microsoft IIS     46
Finding Your Document Root     46
Installing PHP     47
Configuring IIS     49
Testing Your Setup     52
Apache     53
Installing Apache     53
Finding Your Document Root     54
Installing PHP     55
Configuring Apache     55
Testing Your Setup     55
Setting Up Other Systems     56
Setting Up Directories     56
Setting Up Perl     57
Installing Perl Under Microsoft Windows     57
Installing Perl on Unix Systems     59
Summary     60
Exercises     60
The Flickr API     61
What Is an API?     61
Talking to Flickr     61
Character Encoding     62
Request Format     62
REST     62
SOAP     66
XML-RPC     68
Flickr Methods and Objects     71
Methods and Responses     71
Building URLs     75
The Photostream URL     75
The Profile URL     75
The Photo Page URL     76
The Image URL     77
Photoset URLs     78
The Buddy Icon URL     78
The Group Icon URL     79
Using the API Explorer     79
Using an API Kit     82
Be a Good Flickr Citizen     82
Commercial Use     82
Minimizing API calls     83
Flickr Resources     83
Flickr Services Page     83
Flickr Developer Support Group     84
Flickr API Group      84
Summary     84
Exercises     84
Flickr Feeds     81
What Is a Feed?     87
Available Flickr Feeds     89
Feed Formats     89
RSS     91
Atom     92
PHP     94
Serialized PHP     94
JSON     95
CSV     96
YAML     96
SQL     97
CDF     98
Creating a Flickr Badge     99
Designing the Badge     99
A Server-Side Badge Using PHP     100
A Client-Side Badge Using JavaScript     110
Summary     112
Exercises     113
Remixing Flickr Using the API     115
The Basics: A Simple Photo Gallery     115
Setting Things Up     116
Displaying the Photos     122
Styling the Results     125
The Photo Page     127
Using AJAX     131
The prototype.js library     131
Enhancing the Gallery     136
Smart Sets     139
Summary     146
Exercises     146
Authenticating with Flickr      147
The Need for Secrecy     147
Authenticating with Flickr     148
Configuring Your API Key     148
A Typical Authentication Sequence     151
Authentication and API Kits     153
Building an Authenticator     154
Updating Your Photo's Details     161
Other Authentication Mechanisms     167
Desktop Application Authentication     167
Mobile Application Authentication     167
Summary     168
Exercises     168
Uploading Photos     169
How Does Uploading Work?     169
Creating an Upload Page     171
Asynchronous Uploading     176
Replacing Photos     177
Summary     177
Exercise     177
Remixing Flickr Using Greasemonkey     179
What is Greasemonkey?     179
Installing Greasemonkey     179
Creating Your First Script     181
Modifying Pages - A First Remix     183
Determining a User's NSID     183
Completing the Remix     185
Using XPath     188
Highlighting Comments: A Second Remix     190
Enhancing the Flickr Paginator     194
Learning More About Greasemonkey     199
Summary     199
Exercises     199
Working with ImageMagick     201
What Is ImageMagick?     201
Building a Group Badge     205
Building Better Badges     213
More than Just Badges     215
Summary     216
Exercises     216
Visualizing the News     219
The RSS Format     219
Magpie     221
Installing Magpie     221
Setting Up Magpie's Cache     221
Finding Images on Flickr     225
Putting Words and Images Together     227
Summary     239
Exercise     239
Searching the Blogosphere     241
What Is Technorati?     241
Getting a Technorati API Key     242
Searching the Technorati Cosmos     242
Talking to Technorati with Greasemonkey     243
Understanding the Response     245
Putting It All Together     248
Summary     254
Exercise     254
Displaying Your Photos with Google Maps     255
What Is Geodata?      255
Using Google Maps     256
Getting a Google Maps API Key     260
Adding Controls to Your Map     264
Building the Mashup     266
Adding Geodata to Flickr Photos     266
Retrieving Geodata from Flickr Photos     267
Processing the Geodata     269
Laying the Groundwork     271
Adding Markers to the Map     274
Populating the Info Window     278
Creating a Sidebar     282
Summary     288
Exercises     288
Caching Your Data     289
To Cache or Not to Cache     289
Why Should You Cache?     289
What Should You Cache?     290
Where Should You Cache?     291
A Case Study     291
The Origins of Utata     291
Tagging Projects     292
Tracking Membership     292
Introducing a Database     295
Utata Today     296
Updating the Gallery     296
Installing MySQL     296
Microsoft Windows     296
Unix     298
Getting Started with MySQL     298
Checking Your Installation      299
Creating a Database     300
Creating a Table     300
Adding Data to Your Database     301
Viewing Your Data     302
Searching Your Data     303
Sorting Your Data     305
Modifying Your Data     305
Deleting Data     306
Talking to MySQL with PHP     306
Caching Photos     311
The Photo Table     311
Using the Cache     320
Navigating Through Your Photos     324
Making Smart Sets Smarter     328
Identifying Smart Sets     328
Viewing the Smart Set     331
Summary     335
Exercise     336
Answers to Exercises     337
Flickr API Methods     379
Response Data Structures     385
Useful Resources     399
Index     405

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