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# flickr-photos-api
This is a library for using the Flickr API at the [Flickr Foundation].
It's *not* a general-purpose Flickr API library.
It provides a subset of Flickr API methods with the following goals:
* Provide reusable code that can be called across all our projects.
* Abstract away some of the details of the Flickr API -- for example, licenses are returned as complete dictionaries, rather than as the numeric license IDs returned by Flickr API methods.
* Apply types to all results, so the Flickr API can be used safely in a typed context.
[Flickr Foundation]: https://www.flickr.org/
## Design
Using the Flickr API is fairly simple: you make an HTTP GET to `https://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?api_key={api_key}` and pass one or more URL query parameters.
One of those query parameters must be `method`, then you add other parameters depending on the API method.
There's an abstract class that represents this interface:
```python
import abc
from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET
class FlickrApi(abc.ABC):
@abc.abstractmethod
def call(self, method: str, params: dict[str, str] | None = None) -> ET.Element:
return NotImplemented
```
The idea is that you can extend this class with "method" classes that wrap specific API methods, and make HTTP GET calls through this `call()` method:
```python
class GetSinglePhotoMethods(FlickrApi):
def get_single_photo(self, photo_id: str) -> ET.Element:
return self.call(method="flickr.photos.getInfo", params={"photo_id": photo_id})
```
This separates the code for making HTTP requests and separating the responses.
The library includes a single implementation of `FlickrApi` for making HTTP requests, using `httpx`, but you could swap it out if you wanted to use e.g. `requests` or `urllib3`.
This httpx implementation is the default implementation.
## Examples
```console
>>> from flickr_photos_api import FlickrApi
>>> api = FlickrApi.with_api_key(api_key="…", user_agent="…")
>>> photo = api.get_single_photo(photo_id="14898030836")
>>> photo
{'id': '14898030836', 'title': 'NASA Scientists Says', …}
>>> photo["license"]
{'id': 'cc-by-2.0', 'label': 'CC BY 2.0', 'url': 'https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/'}
>>> photo["url"]
'https://www.flickr.com/photos/lassennps/14898030836/'
```
## Usage
1. Install flickr-photos-api from PyPI:
```console
$ pip install flickr-photos-api
```
2. Construct an instance of `FlickrApi`.
You need to pass a user-agent that identifies you, and a [Flickr API key][key].
```python
from flickr_photos_api import FlickrApi
api = FlickrApi.with_api_key(api_key="…", user_agent="…")
```
3. Call methods on FlickrApi.
There's no complete list of methods right now; look at the files `X_methods.py` in the `api` directory.
Methods that return collections of photos also support `page` and `per_page` parameters to control pagination.
[key]: https://www.flickr.com/services/api/misc.api_keys.html
## Development
If you want to make changes to the library, there are instructions in [CONTRIBUTING.md](./CONTRIBUTING.md).
## License
This project is dual-licensed as Apache-2.0 and MIT.
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