How To Get RSS Feeds of Flickr Photo-sets


	How To Get RSS Feeds of Flickr Photo-sets

DarrenTooCool

10-17-2007 3:14 PM

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ben+ward, flickr, photoset, rss, hack

DarrenTooCool says:

I thought this might come in handy someday, a way to pull in an RSS feed from a Flickr photo set.

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Photosets can be non-chronological, so a feed doesn’t always make sense.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ben-ward.co.uk/journal/flickr-photoset-feeds/"><P>That said, oftentimes a photoset <EM>is</EM> chronological and a feed would be a useful. My <A href="http://flickr.com/photos/benward/sets/72157594435188323/">Abridged</A> set works this way.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ben-ward.co.uk/journal/flickr-photoset-feeds/"><P>At <A title="Hackday" href="http://hackday.org">Hack Day London</A> I put together a little script that will convert a set into a feed, and after gigantic delay, I’ve finally documented it and put it live at <A href="http://flickr.ben-ward.co.uk">Flickr.Ben-Ward.co.uk</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ben-ward.co.uk/journal/flickr-photoset-feeds/"><P>For example, to produce a feed of 20 items from the Abridged set: <A href="http://flickr.ben-ward.co.uk/sets/feed/72157594435188323/"><KBD>http://flickr.ben-ward.co.uk/sets/feed/72157594435188323/</KBD></A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ben-ward.co.uk/journal/flickr-photoset-feeds/"><P>You can use additional segments of the <SPAN class="caps">URL</SPAN> to alter the number of feed items and the sort order, for example:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ben-ward.co.uk/journal/flickr-photoset-feeds/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://flickr.ben-ward.co.uk/sets/feed/72157594435188323/40"><KBD>http://flickr.ben-ward.co.uk/sets/feed/72157594435188323/40</KBD></A></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ben-ward.co.uk/journal/flickr-photoset-feeds/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://flickr.ben-ward.co.uk/sets/feed/72157594435188323/25/asc"><KBD>http://flickr.ben-ward.co.uk/sets/feed/72157594435188323/25/asc</KBD></A></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ben-ward.co.uk/journal/flickr-photoset-feeds/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://flickr.ben-ward.co.uk/sets/feed/72157594435188323/25/desc"><KBD>http://flickr.ben-ward.co.uk/sets/feed/72157594435188323/25/desc</KBD></A></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ben-ward.co.uk/journal/flickr-photoset-feeds/"><P>Hopefully this will useful, perhaps especially to those using Flickr in <A href="http://pipes/yahoo.com">Pipes</A>.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2AB978E4-D39A-4F34-BEFF-6150D0D45AB7/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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