Blake Schwendiman's Blog and Blook

There are some web sites that are just so obviously cool that nothing more can be said about them. Flickr is one of those sites. it's amazing that they can provide such a powerful service for free (or next to free even if you do upgrade).

Since releasing my Flickr module for the Google Personalized Homepage, I've had a few requests for integrating the module into other web sites. Recently I decided to take a look at what I would need to accomplish it. Today I'm releasing the first version of this general-purpose script (that I'm calling EZFlickr) for anyone who would like to use it.

Here is what it might look like on your page:

You don't get much of a sense of the power of the script from looking at the image above, but you can configure it to select photos with specific tags, uploaded by specific users and you can set it up to refresh every few seconds automatically.

To get going, just visit this page and copy the code to your own site. Let me know what you like and what you don't like.

Note: Please forgive me if you happen to see something offensive in the image above. The EZFlickr code above is showing random pictures from Flickr. There is no way to filter out offensive material in the programming code.