Flickr Hive Mind

By the way, there's a new toy available: B l a c k M a g i c

Please try it out! Paste:

<a href="http://fiveprime.org/blackmagic">B l a c k M a g i c</a>

into the description or comments of your photos.
the photos must be publicly viewable

Sorry not to be posting recently, but I have been coding up a Flickr photo mining tool I hope you will like. There's lots to do yet, but I think it's ready for a beta test:

www.fiveprime.org/flickr_hvmnd.cgi

What can you do right now?

Search and display photos, with thumbnails up to 250x250, by Tags, Text, Username, Recentness, or Explore.

Retrieve up to 500 results at a time - little or no paging, as long as your computer can deal with it and flickr doesn't revoke my API keys.

Todo list:
a) No authentication yet, so this will only find public photos. DONE
b) No searching of contacts or favorites yet. COMPLETE
c) I want to add a license filter you can retrieve only photos that offer certain license terms.COMPLETE
d) It will be easy to add intelligent reading of date formats people type in, but that's not there yet... COMPLETE

This tool is dedicated to AnnuskA Hjärta and her Flickritis.

Also thanks to Flickr Leech for inspiration.

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Comments

florabritannica says:

You know, when I picked two photos off flickr for inclusion in a book last year I did think it was the world's biggest picture agency if only someone made searching it quicker and more easy, like just showing masses of thumbnails at once... some "amateur" stuff on here beats shots we get from professional agencies into a little woolly bobble hat for quality. Mind you, out of work hours I suspect one could spend ENTIRELY too much time on flickr with this!
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

Ross-mac says:

So how many tags brought up this selection of 50? I'm estimating about 35? Until now I never saw the point of tags. Steam-age mind.
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

nosha says:

Ah, but the selection of 50 in the image was by "Interestingness" (Explore), a much more complex algorithm via social networks (who looked at, who favorited, who commented, etc).
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

AnnuskA - AnnA Theodora says:

wow! I bet that's quite hard to do!!

lol! thanks for dedicating it to me! =D
"terminal flickrits" LMAO!!!! hahahahahaha
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

nosha says:

No, it's not hard, only took about 12 hours to do. If you are a nerd.
I'm mostly a manager of nerds right now, but do things like this just to see if I still have any skills ;)
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

Christie13 says:

Wow, very cool! Flickr-turbo-browsing! Now I'm really not going to get any studying done! I just read some interesting literature on tagging and folksonomies in my indexing class--I'm trying to figure out how to get credit for playing around, I mean, doing scholarly research, on Flickr. :)
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

nosha says:

24 March 2007: I've added one major new feature - Authentication. Now after authentication you can see all photos your flickr account is authorized to see.

On a sadder note, I've turned off the size 500 image option to comply with flickr guidelines. I think it's somewhat fair to say that 250x250 images could still be considered 'thumbnails', but 500x500 is pushing it, and flickr wants no more than 32 real 'pictures' returned from any page.
Posted 32 months ago. ( permalink )

Sleep Less says:

Cool, and not at all nerdy. Well OK, quite nerdy. Inspired me to make a new screen saver collage... Let me know when you have developed your own interestingness algorithm with user configurable parameters ;-)
Posted 32 months ago. ( permalink )

nosha says:

Actually, turning any set of photos returned by the tool into a montage was in fact a request from Charles, and shouldn't be that hard except for possible denial of service attacks.
Posted 32 months ago. ( permalink )

nosha says:

Added: Filtering by creative commons license. Now it is easy to find pictures that could be used for public or even commercial activities.
Posted 32 months ago. ( permalink )

Muslima2006 says:

Today I realized that Flickr Leech don't work. As I searched for an answer, I found this tool.

I'm wondering why I have to log in, I can see all my public photos without log in.
I also wondering about this:
Access to your photos (including private photos)
I think all non public-photos.
How I can agree with this, I don't want that anyone exept a few persons see this photos.
Last year (Advent) I saw all my photos including the non public-photos in explore. How I can trust this system?

Apart of it, I like that this tool has more functions. I just miss a link like

www.fiveprime.org/flickr_hvmnd.cgi/user/Musli ma2006

My Pro-account is only for 3 month and I want to have the option to see my photos with on klick.
Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )

nosha says:

Muslima2006:

Sorry, I just saw your note.
The security model is the same as Flickr itself. Anyone, including folks who have not logged in, can see public photos.

You are right, a simple:
www.fiveprime.org/flickr_hvmnd.cgi/user/Musli ma2006

to get to your photos would be highly desirable. This is on my todo list - there is one obscure part of the current code that is getting in my way.
Posted 25 months ago. ( permalink )

nosha says:

You can now bookmark any page within Flickr hive mind, as well as generate RSS feeds.
Posted 23 months ago. ( permalink )

CezCze (off-line) says:

Is it possible to take all photos of choosen group and sort them by interestingness?
like it was in (for example):
www.flickriver.com/groups/715417@N21/pool/int eresting/
now (after changes forced by flickr) it works only for 4 best pictures (sometimes with errors)
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

nosha says:

Hi CezCze - I will take a look - the group and contacts APIs are the weakest in this respect. Perhaps things have improved.
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

CezCze (off-line) says:

THX for your quick response.

On the group page:
www.flickr.com/groups/score1to20on20/

I use codes which produces:

1:

2:

The first is randomized (as option), but the second is strictly sorted.

When you click on above pictures you can see that they work not quite properly.

Is it possible to obtain similar efect in your program with possibility to click on the photos to get by link to originals?
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

nosha says:

Ah, I think I've found the way it is done, please give it a try!
Sorry this took so long.
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

CezCze (off-line) says:

@ nosha
Thank you, it works:
fiveprime.org/flickr_hvmnd.cgi?search_domain= Groups&t...
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

CezCze (off-line) says:

There is discuss on Flickr Hacks:
How to get first 100 most interesting pictures in one group?

The sipmplest method to do almost the same is:
www.flickr.com/search/groups/?q=+&m=pool& s=int&am...
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

saul.davis says:

*CezCze*: how did you get that search string.
www.flickr.com/search/groups/?q=+&m=pool& s=int&am... ?
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

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