= flickr

http://github.com/RaVbaker/flickr

== DESCRIPTION:

An insanely easy interface to the Flickr photo-sharing service. By Scott Raymond. (& updated May 2008 by Chris Taggart, http://pushrod.wordpress.com & updated May 2010 by Rafal Piekarski)

== FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

The flickr gem (famously featured in a RubyonRails screencast) had broken with Flickr's new authentication scheme and updated API.
This has now been largely corrected, though not all current API calls are supported yet.

== SYNOPSIS:

  require 'flickr'
  flickr = Flickr.new('some_flickr_api_key')    # create a flickr client (get an API key from http://api.flickr.com/services/api/)
  user = flickr.users('sco@scottraymond.net')   # lookup a user
  user.name                                     # get the user's name
  user.location                                 # and location
  user.photos                                   # grab their collection of Photo objects...
  user.groups                                   # ...the groups they're in...
  user.contacts                                 # ...their contacts...
  user.favorites                                # ...favorite photos...
  user.photosets                                # ...their photo sets...
  user.tags                                     # ...their tags...
  user.popular_tags							  							# ...and their popular tags
  recentphotos = flickr.photos                  # get the 100 most recent public photos
  photo = recentphotos.first                    # or very most recent one
  photo.url                                     # see its URL,
  photo.title                                   # title,
  photo.description                             # and description,
  photo.owner                                   # and its owner.
  File.open(photo.filename, 'w') do |file|
    file.puts p.file                            # save the photo to a local file
  end
  flickr.photos.each do |p|                     # get the last 100 public photos...
    File.open(p.filename, 'w') do |f|
      f.puts p.file('Square')                   # ...and save a local copy of their square thumbnail
    end
  end                              

== REQUIREMENTS:

* Xmlsimple gem

== INSTALL:

  sudo gem install flickr.rb
  
* Gem homepage: http://rubygems.org/gems/flickr.rb

== CONFIGURING:

If you want to use this gem/plugin with Rails you can create configuration file in /config directory with specified api connection settings. For example:

  development:
    api_key: SomeLongApiKey
    shared_secret: secret!
    auth_token: authSecretToken
  
  beta:
    api_key: SomeLongApiKeyBeta
    shared_secret: secretBeta!
    auth_token: authSecretTokenBeta
    
  

== LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2005-2010 Scott Raymond, Patrick Plattes, Chris Taggart, Rafal Piekarski

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