Comments on: full size images in Flickr RSS feeds

By: Rob Hyndman

Rob Hyndman — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 13:25:05 +0000

Amazingly useful – thanks so much for doing this.

By: creativenode

creativenode — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 23:07:36 +0000

Brilliant stuff! Thanks!

By: jan

jan — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:10:52 +0000

I’ve just setup http://www.bigflickrfeed.com
All you have to do is paste in your photostream url and it will give you a feed with the large size images.

By: Yorik

Yorik — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:16:03 +0000

Thanks for this article, I hadn’t seen it was so simple to get the thumbnail size you want…

By: cferseta

cferseta — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 11:08:59 +0000

thanks.:)
i was looking for this solution for quite a while

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:33:39 +0000

Yeah, not much I can do there, I’m afraid. It would be possible to create such an application using the Flickr API, but that will require a bit more hands-on programming than Pipes does.

By: aphillippe

aphillippe — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:21:11 +0000

thanks.
I managed to work it out, but hit another wall. To get the original size, there is a further layer of security, the secret key. This needs to be put into the url of the image within the rss feed. I assume this would be done in a similar way to the above, but I can’t figure it out. My pictures are too small to have a “b” 1024 thumbnail, so I’m stuck at 500, still too small for my photo frame. Grrr.
Thanks for all the help anyway, though.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:53:12 +0000

Yup. the $1 corresponds to the (\/\w+) part — it’s the “root” of the image, if you will. If you wanted to, get the “o original image” out, you’d want to change the “$1.jpg” to “$1_o.jpg”.
Good luck!

By: aphillippe

aphillippe — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:02:35 +0000

thanks for the reply.
That’s exactly what I meant, probably didn’t explain it properly. I don’t want to change the size of any given image. I want to change the image that is pulled from flickr from the “m small, 240 on longest side” thumbnail to the “o original image” full image.
Obviously I need to alter the pipe slightly, but I can’t work out what to do (I said I’ve never used pipes before, this is probably really simple!).
So your pipe replaces the flickr suffix (\/\w+)_m.jpg with $1.jpg so that the rss feed pulls out a different image. Is it this that I need to change?
just to make it clear, what I’m after is an rss feed that gives me my full images (o), not smaller thumbnails (m).
Again, thanks for any help.

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:11:38 +0000

aphillippe: unfortunately Pipes does not do any image resizing — Flickr makes a variety of images available via a predictable system of URLs, the Pipe is just rewriting the URL so that we point to a different one than is typically included in the RSS feed.
If you want to resize the image, it may be possible to do so with an external script that interfaces with Pipes through its web service module — but that will take some programming expertise. An easier option will be to use a too-large image from Flickr and hope that your photo frame is smart enough to resize it. See here for Flickr’s URL schemes.