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What is Flickr?
Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. On Flickr, members upload photos, share them securely; supplement their photos with
metadata like license information , geo-location, people, tags, etc:
and interact with their family; iriends
contacts
anyone
the community: Practically all the features on Flickr' $
various platfoms
web, mobile and desktop
are accompanied by
longstanding API program. Since 2005, developers have collaborated on top of Flickr's APIs to build fun,
creative , and gorgeous experiences around photos that extend beyond Flickr
Getting the most out of the Flickr API
The Flickr API
We encourage all sorts of integrations, such as features and products that:
With over
billion photos (many with
valuable metadata such as tags_
Help people make their photos available
people who matter
them
geolocation_
and Exif data) , the Flickr
Enable new ways of organizing photos and videos
community creates wonderfully rich data
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In fact  almost all the functionality
The best integrations contribute
the Flickr community by encouraging members
comveise
share, and curate. Integrations
that runs ilickrcom
available through the
that primarily use Flickr as
photo storage service or
stock imagery provider miss the point behind photo sharing (as well as
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completely free
use
service t0 our members as well as
violate the Community Guidelines):
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words, participatel
developers and other integrators. 50 they
So how do you participate? We pulled together some guidelines for you here_
Since the internet tends [0 be
fast moving place ,
can create even more ways
interact with
please check back here often for updates; and we also have
Changelog
help you track changes
these Guidelines:
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