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Augusto
Getting photos from Picasa, Flickr, etc
Apr 21st, 2010, 5:17pm  
Hi,

Is there any library to get photos from websites such as Picasa, Flickr, or any other? Smiley
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PhiLho 
Re: Getting photos from Picasa, Flickr, etc
Reply #1 - Apr 22nd, 2010, 1:10am  
Have you tried a little search on the forum?
Or on Internet, in case such library exists in Java?

I don't know if such unifying library exists, if not, you probably have to use the Web API provided by each service.
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Augusto
Re: Getting photos from Picasa, Flickr, etc
Reply #2 - Apr 22nd, 2010, 6:49am  
Flickrj seems to be dead, and this post (http://processing.org/discourse/yabb2/num_1159054255__doesn.html't talk about a concrete library :S

guess that's a no
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kabatwa
Re: Getting photos from Picasa, Flickr, etc
Reply #3 - Apr 23rd, 2010, 9:25am  
There's not a flickr library per-se, however you can user Flickr's API and use processing's XML library to interface between the both of them. There's a chapter in Joshua Noble's book - Programming Interactivity that talks about this. Look up the Flickr API to start with!

Tim
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Augusto
Re: Getting photos from Picasa, Flickr, etc
Reply #4 - Apr 26th, 2010, 2:26am  
Thanks Smiley I'm also using:

http://www.bryanchung.net/?p=189
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Augusto
Re: Getting photos from Picasa, Flickr, etc
Reply #5 - Apr 26th, 2010, 6:49am  
Having some trouble with the code from that link, I'm now trying to use flickrj. I managed to get this code working:

Code:
import com.aetrion.flickr.*;
import processing.core.*;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import com.aetrion.flickr.contacts.*;
import com.aetrion.flickr.people.*;
import com.aetrion.flickr.FlickrException;

String apiKey = "####";
Flickr f;
ContactsInterface c;
PeopleInterface p;

void setup() {
  size(1360, 768);
  background(255);
  
  f = new Flickr(apiKey);
  c = f.getContactsInterface();
  p = f.getPeopleInterface();
  User u;
  
  try {
    u = p.findByUsername("Augusto Esteves");
    Collection co = c.getPublicList(u.getId());
    Iterator it = co.iterator();
    
    while(it.hasNext()) {
	Contact contact = (Contact) it.next();
	println(contact.getUsername());  
    }
  } catch (IOException e) {
	e.printStackTrace();
  } catch (SAXException e) {
	e.printStackTrace();
  } catch (FlickrException e) {
	e.printStackTrace();
  }
}

void draw() {
}


Now I'm trying to figure out how to draw images according to their tags Undecided
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Augusto
Re: Getting photos from Picasa, Flickr, etc
Reply #6 - Apr 26th, 2010, 9:58am  
Code:
import com.aetrion.flickr.*;
import processing.core.*;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import com.aetrion.flickr.people.*;
import com.aetrion.flickr.photos.*;
import com.aetrion.flickr.FlickrException;

String apiKey = "#####";
Flickr f;
ContactsInterface c;
PeopleInterface p;
PhotosInterface ph;
User u;

void setup() {
  size(1360, 768);
  background(255);
  
  f = new Flickr(apiKey);
  p = f.getPeopleInterface();
  
  getPhotos();
}

void draw() {
}

void getPhotos(){
  try {
    u = p.findByUsername("Augusto Esteves");
    PhotoList phLst = p.getPublicPhotos(u.getId(), 300, 0);   
    Iterator it = phLst.iterator();
    
    while(it.hasNext()) {
	Photo photo = (Photo) it.next();
	Collection coTags = photo.getTags();
	println(photo.getTitle());
	println(coTags);
    }
  } catch (IOException e) {
	e.printStackTrace();
  } catch (SAXException e) {
	e.printStackTrace();
  } catch (FlickrException e) {
	e.printStackTrace();
  }
}


Anyone has a clue why I can get the photos' names, but I only get a [] for the tags?  Undecided
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Augusto
Re: Getting photos from Picasa, Flickr, etc
Reply #7 - Apr 27th, 2010, 2:37am  
Got it working in a very weird way.

Code:
import com.aetrion.flickr.tags.*;
(...)
void getPhotos(){
   try {
	 u = p.findByUsername("Augusto Esteves");
	 PhotoList phLst = p.getPublicPhotos(u.getId(), 300, 0);   
	 Iterator it = phLst.iterator();
    
	 Photo photo = (Photo) it.next();
	 Photo tags = t.getListPhoto(photo.getId());
	 Collection ptags = tags.getTags();
(...)


I have to create a new photo that just holds the tags Shocked
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