How Can I Use Flickr API to return images from a place

Question

I am using justifiedimage gallery, swipebox anda PHP Flickr API Wrapper to return and display images in a gallery.

The trouble is, currently it displays the images obtained from a certain user account. Is there a way to modify the below code, so that it only displays images from "Southampton" as opposed to displaying images from a specified userID?

<head>
    <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="justifiedGallery/justifiedGallery.min.css" />
    <script src="justifiedGallery/jquery.justifiedGallery.min.js"></script>

    <script src="swipebox/src/js/jquery.swipebox.js"></script>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="swipebox/src/css/swipebox.css">
</head>

<div id="gallery">
<?php

    include_once('./phpFlickr.php');

    $key = "491566f49be9289";    // enter your API key here
    $secret = "11eb02"; // enter your API secret here
    
    $userid = "163300815@N05"; // Get flickr user id here. Currently points to Jasper Reddin
    
    $f = new phpFlickr($key, $secret);


    $response = $f->people_getPublicPhotos($userid, NULL, "url_m,url_h", 500)['photos']['photo'];

    foreach ($response as $photo) {
        $title = str_replace("'", "&#39;", $photo['title']);

        echo '<a href="' . $photo['url_h'] . '" class="swipebox" title="' . $title . '"><img alt="' . $title . '" src="' . $photo['url_m'] . '"></a>';
    }

?>

</div>

<script>
    $('#gallery').justifiedGallery( {
        rowHeight: 200,
        lastRow: 'nojustify',
        rel: 'Portfolio',
        margins: 2
    });

    $(".swipebox").swipebox({
        loopAtEnd: true
    });
</script>

<style>
    body {
        margin: 0;
    }

    #gallery {
        background-color: black;
    }
</style>

Answer 1

Since you didn't link to the PHP library you're using, I'm going to guess that it's this one by Dan Coulter , which I note was last updated 7 years ago. However, it allows you to call any method in the Flickr API with the ->call method so you should be able to use any of the methods listed on Flickr's documentation to meet your goal.

In particular, there is a method simply called flickr.photos.search which allows you to specify a lot of different options for what photos you want. Most relevantly:

user_id to specify whose photos to return
bbox to specify a rectangular / quadrilateral geographical area
lat , lon , radius and radius_units to specify a circular geographical area
woe_id or place_id to specify identified places like towns

The documentation says that you can't search for all photos in a certain location, and if you don't specify some other limit such as a tag or date, then only photos added in the last 12 hours will be returned.

To find values for woe_id and place_id , you can use the methods headed "Places", such as flickr.places.find .

Both methods have wrappers in Dan Coulter's library, so your code might look something like this (completely untested):

$places = $f->places_find('Southampton')['places']['place'];
foreach  ( $places as $place ) {
    echo "<h2>{$place['_content']}</h2>";

    $photos = $f->photos_search([
       'place_id' => $place['place_id'],
       // other search parameters here
       'extras' => 'url_m,url_h',
       'per_page' => 500
    ])['photos']['photo'];

    foreach ( $photos as $photo ) {
         $title = str_replace("'", "&#39;", $photo['title']);
         echo '<a href="' . $photo['url_h'] . '" class="swipebox" title="' . $title . '"><img alt="' . $title . '" src="' . $photo['url_m'] . '"></a>';
    }
}

How Can I Use Flickr API to return images from a place

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How Can I Use Flickr API to return images from a place

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1 answers

solution1 1 ACCPTED 2021-02-13 20:32:11

solution1
1 ACCPTED 2021-02-13 20:32:11