Comments on: s10-Day 06 Introduction to the Flickr API

By: ayushk

ayushk — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:39:44 +0000

1. My search term was: “Cheese Board”

The URL is: http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.photos.search&api_key=49558a325ba45b1be2b906471622caa6&tags=Cheese+Board

The URL for the context page is: http://www.flickr.com/photos/11954314@N04/4380341000

The URL for the medium-sized photo is: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4071/4380341000_f8c0c54cf0.jpg

2. I wanted to see who represents Alpine, NJ – the richest neighborhood in the US. (07620)

http://services.sunlightlabs.com/api/legislators.allForZip.xml?apikey=2a05bacddb4a456da41e00607b194865&zip=07620

Results:

Robert Menendez – M000639
E. Scott Garett – G000548
Frank R. Launtenberg – L000123

By: ra

ra — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:31:07 +0000

1)
first photo element response:

context:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/86568343@N00/4347445916/

medium image:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2795/4347445916_766a5a06c3.jpg

2)
Christopher Lee, L000568
Charles Schumer, S000148
Kirsten Gillibrand, G000555
Eric Massa, M001173

By: tanushree

tanushree — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:33:17 +0000

1. Tag searched for: “laughter”

XML returned for the first image:

Context page for the image:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/43305795@N04/4346146457

Medium sized image:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2710/4346146457_8805e4e501_m.jpg

2.
API Call: http://services.sunlightlabs.com/api/legislators.allForZip.xml?apikey=949a33bafda7440495a74f7d5c22fe2f&zip=92101

For the zip code 92101

Susan A Davis Bioguide ID: D000598
Barbara Boxer Bioguide ID: B000711
Dianne Feinstein Bioguide ID: F000062

By: Julian

Julian — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:16:38 +0000

1. Query = “Gundam”

The context page is,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39270009@N02/4345706239/

The medium size photo is
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4009/4345706239_d6c0713a8c.jpg

2. Zip = “91745″

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

By: amazingamazing

amazingamazing — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:15:51 +0000

1) created a search for “party”

The context page is

http://www.flickr.com/photos/74163325@N00/4341159999/

The medium size photo is

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2772/4341159999_67219b2bb2.jpg

2) zip code 95814 (i used to live here)
Doris Matsui – M001163
Barbara Boxer – B000711
Diane Feinstein – F000062

By: kimra

kimra — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:55:46 +0000

For Flickr, I searched for “costarica.” My API call first pulled a photo that Flickr told me had recently been deleted when I tried to do the direct URL (http://www.flickr.com/photos/35269053@N00/4345240206). So, I ended up doing this one:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/41432163@N00/4344499411
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4063/4344499411_d6566db0d5.jpg

For Sunlight Labs, I pulled the representatives from my hometown (as of earlier this week . . .)

Bill Shuster, bioguide_id= S001154
Robert Casey, bioguide_id= C001070
Arlen Specter, bioguide_id= S000709
John Murtha, bioguide_id= M001120

By: emily

emily — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:16:47 +0000

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

http://services.sunlightlabs.com/api/legislators.allForZip.xml?apikey={mysecretAPIkey!don’tlook!}&zip=46012

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

By: emily

emily — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:16:24 +0000

Shoot, I think I posted my answers in the wrong place. Let me try again…

My Flickr photo search was for “kittens,” using the 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:

The URL for the context page is:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22412994@N08/4342013580/

The medium size photo page URL is:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2742/4342013580_2b73f0382e.jpg

By: ddt

ddt — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:00:38 +0000

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/

The medium sized photo is: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2743/4059336620_bd545ed4d3.jpg

2. For the ZIP code 02139:
http://services.sunlightlabs.com/api/legislators.allForZip.xml?apikey=e7be07492e7a47eab8e0987201cbdb61&zip=02139

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