Comments on: iPhoto 6 and flickr

By: huttiel

huttiel — Tue, 15 May 2007 22:59:13 +0000

Hm. You know, I tried to view it on FireFox in Mac OS X, but it wants to download the RSS file instead of use FireFox to display it, yet it works fine in Safari.

That can’t be good.

By: Felix Niemeyer

Felix Niemeyer — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 21:13:41 +0000

while I don’t see any photos in the stream and rss with phlickr it works fine with photocast.com

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 17:23:30 +0000

I have also put up a flickr->photocast converter (photocastr.com)

I allow you to authenticate my app so you can access your private photos.

I include the tags (not the raw ones, as currently flickr is too slow for that, so if you use tags like “My Tag”, it will
come through with the keyword mytag). That means you’ll have to change your iPhoto keywords to see them
match up. iPhoto just drops keywords in the feed that it doesn’t already know about.

This is still alpha, so they are more features to come. But it works pretty well for me.

If you add the keyword “Photocast” in iPhoto, you can make smart albums that include photos
in your photocastr feeds. This lets you sync to your ipod.
(Thanks to John Evans for that hack!)

By: Lumineux

Lumineux — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 05:45:25 +0000

John, thanks for adding the new functionality, but iPhoto is timing out on me so I can’t try it out. “Request to phlikr.3xi.org failed after trying for 30 seconds.”
My guess is that your site is becoming really popular, and there’s a heavy load on it. :-(

By: John Evans

John Evans — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 23:57:15 +0000

Lumineux, just to let you know, I updated http://phlikr.3xi.org and it has some beta functionality to overcome to 10 item limit. Read down the page for instructions, and give me some feedback if what you want isnt currently there.

By: Lumineux

Lumineux — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 17:57:25 +0000

This is pretty cool. Although I’m only able to see the last 10 photos from a flickr feed. Anyone know how to overcome the 10 photo limit?

By: julian

julian — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 03:37:35 +0000

Nick T, thanks for the tip, that explains the conflicting accounts!

By: Nick T

Nick T — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 02:47:09 +0000

Actually, I found that the Atom feed from flickr only sends the thumbnails. But the RSS2.0 feed sends the largest uploaded image to iPhoto. Excellent!

Just use the RSS feed that has ‘format=rss_200′ in the URL instead of the atom version.

By: John Evans

John Evans — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 16:02:36 +0000

If anyone is interested I threw this together today. http://phlikr.3xi.org/

It will take a feed from flickr and rework it a little so that it uses the large images and contains the comment of the photo as well. It is an Atom 1.0 feed that seems to validate on the feeds I have tested, it also includes most of the extra apple stuff debated here. If I can work out the date format I will add that too, and myabe the tags can be retrived and added so they appear as keywords.

To use just paste any feed from flickr into the box and hit the button, the feed should just open up in iPhoto, if not it will just be a regular atom feed with all the relevent enclosures so it will work in NetNewsWire or whatever your reader is.

If its useful let me know.

By: Phil Balchin

Phil Balchin — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 15:10:59 +0000

I’ve set a subscribed to a couple of Flickr Rss Streams in iPhoto, and yes it does work. An it does download the full high res version (the heighest that was uploaded). It seems to download a thumbnail first, but if you watch a photo for a while, it will be downloading the full one in the background! then displays it when its got it. It takes a while downloading big pictures (obviously).