Gallery frontend, Flickr backend

August 29, 2005 8:58 PM

I'm looking for something that works like Gallery but pulls my images from Flickr.

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?

posted by exhilaration to Computers & Internet (9 answers total)

If you use Wordpress, you can use this plugin.

Also, a very basic PHP (Flickr-backed) gallery 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.
posted by jeresig at 9:06 PM on August 29, 2005 [1 favorite]

Best answer: You're looking for the as-yet unreleased enfamer — but I believe the smaller preview version Admiral should do the trick awesomely.
posted by rafter at 9:07 PM on August 29, 2005

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.
posted by rafter at 9:10 PM on August 29, 2005

Best answer: Gallery lets you decide the dimensions of the images you upload, IIRC. So that shouldn't be a problem. As for space, hosts like mine give away hundreds of MB for even a $4 plan, so hosting space is affordable too. Just an option, of course.
posted by madman at 11:40 PM on August 29, 2005

Best answer: 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)
posted by winston at 1:09 AM on August 30, 2005

Local photo caching will be configurable in the next release of Admiral.
posted by eshepard at 12:16 PM on August 30, 2005

"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.
posted by heather at 4:12 PM on August 30, 2005

I was pretty pleased to find such a plug-in but when trying to implement it following the directions here, 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?
posted by geekyguy at 8:09 PM on August 30, 2005

Have you looked into imageshack. 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 . . .
posted by 3rings at 11:52 AM on September 2, 2005