Flickr Services

API Documentation Feeds Your API Keys

Flickr has an open Application Programming Interface (API for short). This means that anyone can write their own program to present public Flickr data (like photos, tags, profiles or groups) in new and different ways. There's a long list of API methods available to you to work with, and we love it when this happens, so... go forth and play!

Featured Third Party Flickr Apps

fd's Flickr Toys
by fd

fd (aka John Watson) is the epitome of the Flickr API hacker. He's made more bits and pieces than we can poke sticks at, and all of them are either fun toys for playing with photos or extremely useful tools that we haven't had time to build yet. Go, fd!

Trip Planner
by Yahoo! Travel

Trip Planner is a website that lets you build a travel itinerary with your hotel, nearby restaurants, attractions, maps, driving directions and more! When you return home, create a photo set of your trip on Flickr then show them off as part of your trip plan.

retrievr
by System One Labs

A lovely experiment, retrievr lets you search and explore in a selection of Flickr images by drawing a rough sketch and then seeing which of our interesting photos come up as a match. Beware! You will spend hours pouring over the stunning (and sometimes unexpected) results.

Featured Downloads

Flock by Flock

A whole new web browser with built-in Flickr uploading and lot of extra Flickr features built right in.

ShoZu by ShoZu

ShoZu provides a cool service for uploading photos from your cameraphone straight to your photostream on Flickr.

1001 by Adriaan Tijsseling

A Mac OS X application for uploading and notifying you when new photos are added to streams you want to watch.

Oldies, but Goodies

Flickr Graph by Marcos Weskamp

Flickr Graph is a Flash-based application built on the Flickr API that creates a visualization of social relationships in Flickr. Start by entering your Flickr username or email address; double click to see a view with recent photos and frequently used tags; surf around friend by friend to see their photos too.

Mappr, by Stamen Design

Mappr, built by our many friends at Stamen Design makes it possible to map photos with geographic location tags. You can see, for example, flowers or sunsets located on the map, zoom into particular states to see their most recent photos, or see the map of photos from a road trip. The Mappr team has created a group on Flickr too.

Flickr Color Picker by JBum

Using images from the Color Fields group on Flickr, JBum has created a beautiful and efficient Experimental Color Picker. Just click on a color, use the slider to adjust lightness and darkness, and it will show you photos with that color.

Developing on the Flickr API

Anyone is free to write software to do cool stuff with available Flickr data via our API. Here's how to get started:

Read the Fine Print

Flickr services are experimental and are currently offered to outside developers on an ad hoc basis with no guarantee of uptime or availability of continued service. We reserve the right to disable access to external applications at any time.

We are currently evaluating the issues and results that arise from making these services available and creating policies for our full public release.

Yahoo! is not responsible for the content or features provided by outside application developers, nor for any Flickr members decision to make use of outside applications.

Feeds

Find out how to construct feeds to public photos.

Third Party Flickr Apps List

Cool Stuff

FlickrBooth by Tristan O'Tierney
Mappr by Stamen Design
Flickr Color Pickr by JBum
1001 by Adriaan Tijsseling
Flickr World Map by allthegoodness.com
Flickr Rainbow by Just_Tom
Flickr Wallpapr Generator by mikecpeck
Flickr photos on your TiVo by Major Clanger
FlickReplacr by Kokogiak
Flickr Postcard Browser by Airtight Interactive
Delivr Digital Postcards by Charles
Montager by Billy Fowks
Associatr by Genista
FlickRandom by GustavoG
Flickrfs - A Virtual Filesystem by Manish Rai Jain
Flickr Album Maker by .CK
fd's Flickr Toys by fd
Gnickr by Eitan Isaacson
ZoneTag by Yahoo! Research Berkeley Labs

Uploaders

iPhoto Plug-in by Fraser Spiers
1001 (also does uploading)
Uploadr for Gnome's Nautilus by Marc Nozell
Linux Uploadr by Michele Campeotto
Glimmr for Gnome by Mike Gardiner
Flock by Flock
jUploadr by Steve Cohen

Blog Tools

FAlbum WordPress plugin by Elijah Cornell
Kubrickr for WordPress by Owen Winkler

More Resources Elsewhere

There are a few worker bees around who are keeping up with all the cool stuff that people are building on the Flickr API. Here are 2 good ones we've found:

Also, you might want to have a peek at the Yahoo! Developer Network gallery to see what people are building on the Flickr API.