FlickrAPI
The goal of FlickrAPI is to provide an interface to the Flickr API and allow R users to download data on public photos uploaded to Flickr.
Installation
install.packages("FlickrAPI")
# remotes::install_github("koki25ando/FlickrAPI")After installing, set up a Flickr API key and save it as a local
environment variable using
setFlickrAPIKey(api_key = "YOUR_API_KEY_HERE", install = TRUE). The
Flickr API is available for non-commercial use by outside developers and
is only available for commercial use under prior arrangements. Review
the Flickr API
documentation, API
Overview, or
Flickr Developer Guide for
more information.
Example
You can get photos from any individual user using the getPhotos()
function.
library(FlickrAPI)
photos <- getPhotos(user_id = "grand_canyon_nps")
knitr::kable(photos[1,])| id | owner | secret | server | farm | title | ispublic | isfriend | isfamily |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51924677769 | 50693818@N08 | a48d45c811 | 65535 | 66 | 03/03/22 Desert View Amphitheater Reconstruction 40389 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
For more information about any individual image, you can use
getPhotoInfo() or the getExif() function.
photo_info <- getPhotoInfo(photo_id = photos$id[1], output = "tags")
knitr::kable(photo_info[c(1:2),])| id | author | authorname | raw | content | machine_tag |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50601005-51924677769-83469 | 50693818@N08 | Grand Canyon NPS | Desert View | desertview | 0 |
| 50601005-51924677769-26960 | 50693818@N08 | Grand Canyon NPS | Amphitheater | amphitheater | 0 |
photo_exif <- getExif(photo_id = photos$id[10])
knitr::kable(photo_exif[1,])| tagspace | tagspaceid | tag | label | raw | clean |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JFIF | 0 | JFIFVersion | JFIFVersion | 1.02 | NA |
You can also search photos by tag and license.
photo_search <- getPhotoSearch(
sort = "date-taken-desc",
tags = c("cats", "dogs"),
per_page = 50)
knitr::kable(photo_search[1,])| id | owner | secret | server | farm | title | ispublic | isfriend | isfamily | img_url | img_height | img_width | img_asp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51958193894 | 50281068@N08 | ca8e35eb2b | 65535 | 66 | Cats Of Mei Ling | 1 | 0 | 0 | https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51958193894_ca8e35eb2b_s.jpg | 75 | 75 | 1 |