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How can i make my images on flickr direct?

Gallery frontend, Flickr backend

  • I'm looking for something that works like http://gallery.sourceforge.net/ but pulls my images from http://www.flickr.com/. I really like using Gallery on my personal website but the images take too much disk space, and I really don't like having to resize or limit the images I put online. I'd like to sign up for a Flickr Pro account because you can upload an unlimited number of images BUT I'd like to able to display those images on my website, in organized albums, using a personalized theme, pretty much exactly the way I have it right now. Is this possible? Has anyone written the software to make it happen? Is this a violation of the Flickr TOS?

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    You're looking for the as-yet unreleased http://www.slower.net/slowerlog/ — but I believe the smaller preview version http://www.slower.net/slowerlog/2005/08/admiral.php should do the trick awesomely.

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If you use Wordpress, you can use http://www.worrad.com/archives/2005/01/08/flickr-gallery-07/. Also, a very basic http://www.entrauge.com/tools/oberkampf/ exists. It only seems to have one default theme, but if you have any HTML knowledge, it should be easy to remedy that. It is not in violation of the Flickr TOS - they have an open API that allows developers (and you!) to do this with your images. Hope this helps to put you in the right direction.

jeresig

Ack, sorry, it looks like Admiral/enfamer mirror the images on your local space after pulling them from Flickr — which is a good way to do it, after all. Have you thought about just investing in a little more webspace? Storage is cheap and photos are small. My own photoblog currently has 2080 images and doesn't even come to 150MB.

rafter

Gallery lets you decide the dimensions of the images you upload, IIRC. So that shouldn't be a problem. As for space, hosts http://www.totalchoicehosting.com give away hundreds of MB for even a $4 plan, so hosting space is affordable too. Just an option, of course.

madman

ditto rafter and madman -- Where is your web site hosted? If storage space is the only issue, move it to a host that gives you more space. Shouldn't even cost you more (unless it's currently hosted for free, and even then it could be done for a cost comparable to the Flickr Pro subscription if you do some shopping)

winston

Local photo caching will be configurable in the next release of Admiral.

eshepard

"Is this a violation of the Flickr TOS?" It is if each photo doesn't link back to the photo page on Flickr. It's not an image hosting service.

heather

I was pretty pleased to find such a http://www.worrad.com/archives/2005/01/08/flickr-gallery-07/ but when trying to implement it following the directions http://www.nicemess.com/?p=4, I find step 6 unreadable. As in the code is filled with noise characters that don't resolve on changing my page encoding. I tried deciphering from the source code but they appear to be embedded there as well. Thoughts?

geekyguy

Have you looked into http://www.imageshack.us/. They say of themselves: ImageShack® is an intuitive and easy-to-use free image hosting solution. It can be used to share pictures with friends, as well as post images on message boards and blogs. It can also be used to direct link images on your personal website or online auction. I only recently learned of it and haven't used it yet. Says its free . . .

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