Comments on: Day 6 First look at programming APIs

By: ade_chen

ade_chen — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:44:00 +0000

1. Search term “leatherback sea turtle”
First term in the XML response was:

The medium-sized photo is:

farm3.static.flickr.com/2725/4176548439_5395ec0a99.jpg

Yielded:
Rep. Peter Roskam: R000580
Sen. Roland Burris: B001266
Sen. Richard Durbin: D000563

Julian — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:15:17 +0000

1. Query = “Gundam”

2. Zip = “91745″

Gary G. Miller: M001139
Diane Feinstein: F000062
Barbara Boxer: B000711
Grace Flores Napolitano: N000179

ddt — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:44:51 +0000

This is strange… I posted my answers yesterday afternoon but they seem to be “awaiting moderation”. Here they are again:

1. Search term was “Specialized Shiv”

First term in the XML response was:

The URL for the context page is: http://www.flickr.com/photos/25843176@N02 /4059336620/

yielded:
Michael E. Capuano: C001037
Paul G. Kirk: K000374
John Forbes Kerry: K000148

emily — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:14:13 +0000

For the Sunlight Labs exercise, I searched for the legislators in my hometown:

They are:
Richard Lugar, bioguide_id=L000504
Mike Pence, bioguide_id=P000587
Evan Bayh, bioguide_id=B001233

emily — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:13:07 +0000

My Flickr photo search was for “kittens,” using the API search request below:
http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.photos.search&api_key={mysecretAPIkey!don’tlook!}&tags=kittens

The first photo element that I got back from the Flickr Explorer was:

raymondyee — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:58:06 +0000

An example answer to #2 for 94720 is

Barbara Boxer: B000711
Barbara Lee: L000551
Diane Feinstein: F000062

raymondyee — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:55:53 +0000

An example answer to #1 — see example from Chapter 6

a query for puppy yielded

The context page is

The medium size photo is