Essential Flickr Tools
Flickr is one of my favorite social websites because I love photography. Since images can be used in countless applications, many developers build a ton of tools that connect with the Flickr API and manipulate the photos shared on Flickr. I use the API on WordMingle and my remake of Spell with Flickr.
For Official Flickr Tools, visit the main Flickr tools website. This is a list of the other Flickr tools out there and it has been compiled using ToolSoup. Check out the digg list, and youtube list.
Search Flickr and Random Images
- Most Interesting Pictures - Enter Flickr username to see their most interesting pictures.
- Flickr Color Selectr - lets you search pictures on Flickr by colors and rate them.
- Viewr - lets you browse the newest 100 intrestingness photos.
- Twaingle - allows you to search for images on flickr or yahoo and insert them directly into an application.
- Flickr Color Picker - Uses images from the Color Fields group and shows you photos according to the color you choose.
- Flickr Leech - Flickr search tool that displays a lot of photos on one page and sorts by user id, photoset and group pools.
- FlickrStorm - an excellent way to search Flickr.
- Random photo browser - fetches a selection of random photos that have been favorited by at least one person.
- FlickrRandom - presents randomly-picked photos from Flickr.
- On Black - Enter the URL of a photo page to view that image on a nice black (or white) background.
- FlickrBuddy - See and download the most interesting pictures of your flickr contacts.
- World In Pictures - lets you find photos according to a specified location.
- FlickrPapr - lets you search Flickr for wallpaper size photos by tags or username.
- Findr - search photos on Flickr by browsing and refining related tags.
- Retrievr - lets you search for photos on flickr by drawing sketches of them.
- FlickrLilli - lets you search for Creative Commons content on Flickr.
- Flickr Tag Related Browser - Flickr tag search that shows Flickr images and related tags.
Flickr Tools for a Blog or Website
- Kubrickr lets you replace the blue blob at the top of your WordPress blog with a nice photo from Flickr.
- Flickr Dhtml Badge - Javascript and CSS implementation of Flickr’s flash badge widget.
- Flickr module for CMS - integrates your photo albums at Flickr with your CMS Made Simple website.
- Search Flickr - search Flickr plugin.
- FlickrPress - gets all of the photos uploaded to flickr by a specific user in the last 24 hours and posts the thumbnails to a Wordpress blog.
- flickrRSS Plugin - WordPress plugin that displays a Flickr style badge on your WordPress blog.
- Flickr Album Maker - Lets you make photo albums using Flickr photos.
- QuickrFlickr - generates HTML code of Flickr pictures for use in Xanga, other blogs, or any HTML Page.
- Pictobrowser - Widget that displays flickr photos on your blog.
- Flickr Gallery - a WordPress plugin that integrates Flickr with Wordpress.
- Flickr Photosets - a Movable Type plugin that uses the Flickr API to fetch a list of Photosets from Flickr.
- FlickrViewer - allows you to view a Flickr photo set in SimpleViewer, a popular flash photo viewing tool.
- Flapi - open source Flash image gallery that uses Flickr to manage the images.
- Daily Zeitgeist - Flash application that displays recent photos from Flickr on your website.
- f*Gallery - PHP Photo Gallery for Flickr Members to display thir photos uploaded to flickr on there personal website.
- WP Flickr Post Bar - is a WordPress plugin that easily inserts your Flickr photos into your blog posts.
- FAlbum - WordPress plugin that displays your Flickr photos and photosets on your blog.
- Badge Maker - Make your own unofficial flickr badge.
- FlickrSavr - downloads images and creates a slideshow of images and titles.
- Embedded Flickr Slideshows - shows how to embed a Flickr slideshow within your website to give your readers something dynamic.
- Flickr Badge Plugin - WordPress plugin that displays a Flickr style badge on your WordPress blog.
Feed and RSS with Flickr
- Flickr RSS Widget - a Javascript button you can put on your website that displays thumbnails of the latest photos in any Flickr RSS feed.
- Flickr RSS Reader v2 - is an application built in Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Professional that reads RSS Feeds from Flickr.
- Flickr Sets RSS - Creates RSS streams for sets of a user on Flickr.
- Flickr Mixr - uses RSS feeds provided by flickr and parses them to generate new images.
- Flickr 2 Photocast - generates an iPhoto-compatible photocast feed from Flickr, Allows up to 500 images in original resolution.
- FlickrFling - displays the text of news feed with accompanying images from flickr.
Games based on Flickr
- Fastr - game where you are shown a group of pictures from Flickr and have to guess the tag before other people.
- Matchr - Flickr puzzle game.
- Flickrball - Six-degrees-of-separation game, using Flickr thumbnails and tags for clues.
- Tag Man - a hangman game for Flickr tags.
- Flickr Flash Puzzle Zone - creates jigsaw puzzle according to your searched Flickr images.
- Flickr Soduku - play soduku with Flickr images.
Geo and Maps with Flickr
- We Map Flickr - mashes up Google maps with Flickr to display a map with pictures from around the world.
- Flickrmap - Put a flash based world map on your own website or blog.
- Flyr - search Flickr for geotagged photos.
- Geobloggers - links Flickr photos, Delicious links, and geographic locations via tags and shows them on Google Maps
- Trippermap - get a flash world map of your flickr photos.
- GMiF - embeds a Google Maps in the Flickr photo page and displays where the photo was taken.
- Mappr - is an interactive environment for exploring place, based on the photos people take.
- EgoWalk - see geographically where all your Flickr contacts live in the United States on a Yahoo! map.
Download Flickr Photos
- Flickr AutoDownloadr - Lets you download and view Flickr photos in a fullscreen slideshow (Windows).
- Flickr Backup - a java utility that allows you to download the pictures you have uploaded to Flickr back down to your computer for personal backup or restore.
- FlickrDown - lets you easily download photos from Flickr.
- FlickrFavs - an application for downloading your favorite photos.
- Flickr Explorer - Mass photo downloader for Flickr.
- Flickr Faves - lets you download high-resultion versions of your Flickr favorites to your hard drive.
Upload Flickr Photos
- Flickr Automator Action - Automated uploading to Flickr.
- jUploadr - cross-platform Flickr uploader for both linux and windows.
- PictureSync - Upload your images, with metadata, from iPhoto, iView MediaPro, and files with or without IPTC fields.
- UploadrXL - full featured upload application that uploads your photos, adds them to your sets and/or groups and adds tags and description based upon the EXIF/IPTC tags or your own values.
- Flickrfs Virtual Flickr Filesystem - Creates a virtual userspace filesystem which allows easy uploading/downloading/searching of images through flickr.
- Flidget - dashboard widget for Tiger that allows you to upload your photos.
- Grabbr - is a small application for uploading screenshots to Flickr.
- Photoupload - Image uploader to Flickr that lets you upload directly to photoset, use IPTC and EXIF fields in photo description, and generate tags from IPTC keywords.
- uploadr.py - Upload images to your Flickr account in Python.
- Flickr and WebImager - makes taking screenshots and uploading them to your Flickr account simple and easy.
- Glimmr - photo uploader for the Flickr web service.
- 1001 - Mac OSX application for uploading and notifying you when new photos are added to streams you want to watch.
- Flickr Importr - a tool for Windows that allows you to upload images to Flickr and automatically add them to groups and sets.
- Flickr Upload for Gnome’s Nautilus - is a Nautilus script that integrates Flickr uploads with the Gnome file manager.
- KFlickr - Standalone Flickr uploader for KDE
- FlickrUploadr - is a tool to upload your pictures to Flickr.
Other Flickr Tools
- Fireflix - a flickr uploader / manager extension for Firefox web browser.
- Flickrfox - Firefox Extension that lets you browse your Flickr photostreams in a sidebar.
- Degradr - Firefox Greasemonkey script to replace flash representations of photos on Flickr with the image files embedded in those flash files.
- Printr Killr - lets you print card decks and calendars from Flickr
- Flickstrs - Shows Top 20 by factoring in the number of images users have in the flickr explore pages, number of people calling them contacts, and percentage of images that are on the explore pages.
- Photo Desktop - lets you edit images before upload.
- Flickr Inspector - displays publicly available data about flickr users.
- Flickr photos on your TiVo lets you display Flickr pictures on your TiVo
- Splashr - tool for presenting Flickr photos.
- Flictionary - lets you input your stream of guesses and helps you draw new photos.
- Tagnautica - experimental navigation tool built to explore the space of related Flickr tags.
- Clockr - current time with flickr photos.
- Flickr Rainbow - displays recent images from Flickr users that have been tagged with the colours of the rainbow.
- Travelr - display your Flickr photos geographically on a world map.
- Flickr Finder - lets you easily naviagte your Flickr photos. For Mac.
- GlobeFeed Maps - Flickr geotagged photos get integrated on a Google Map.
- FlickrFont - converts text to images.
- Flickr Set Manager - Automatically create new sets on flickr based on interestingness, date, tags, or randomness.
- Most Interesting Pictures - displays the most interesting pictures of a flickr user.
- h4ppier-photos - Flickr photo’s set organiser with date filter.
- Bubblr - Create comic strips using photos from Flickr.
- Sprinklr - allows you to quickly add your Flickr photos to various groups.
- Favcol - analyzes Flickr colors and shows Flickr’s favorite color as the background.
- Gickr - lets you create an animated Gif from your Flickr photos
- Flickr Panel - plugin that displays images direct from flickr user’s, groups, or tags.
- Preloadr - Online image processing and photo optimization of Flickr photos
- phpFlickr - a PHP client for the Flickr web service. It has functions that return the responses from Flickr’s API in a meaningful way for PHP developers.
- Flickr Original Viewr - lets you view originals of all Flickr photos.
- Loopy - a desktop screensaver application that loops and shows flickr pictures at random.
- Tiltomo - lets you play with their Visual Search code using two sample databases from flickr.
- Zone Tag - automatically tags your photos with location.
- John’s Background Switcher - changes the background image on your computer periodically using photos from Flickr.
- RSS2PDF for Flickr - creates PDF archives based on any public Flickr newsfeed.
- Gtalkr - intergrates google talk, gmail, flickr and you tube together.
- Flickr Logo Maker - generator where you can enter text and it generates a flickr style logo.
- DeskFlickr - rotates your desktop wallpaper based on flickr tags.
- Flapper - Flash 8 interface for Flickr.
- Flickeur - retrieves random images from Flickr and creates a stream-of-consciousness type of video clip.
- Wickr - widget for browsing through photos on Flickr by supplying tags or by giving a Flickr user’s username or email.
- Tickr - scrolls images on your desktop until Flickr which match the tags you selected.
- Slickr - Flickr screensaver that shows images from a user, group, tags, etc.
- Gnickr - lets you manage photos on your Flickr site as if they were local files on your Gnome desktop.
- Captioner - lets you add comic captions to your flickr photos.
- Wikinews Flickr License Searcher - searches flickr for images licensed under a specific license.
- Cloud Tag Flickr - script that pulls your tags from flickr, and arranges them in a number of ways according to the relative counts of the given tags.
- FlickrFly - script that can be linked from the description or comment of a geotagged Flickr Photo to fly you that location in Google Earth.
- Yahoo Widgets for Flickr - flickr related widgets for your desktop. Uses the Yahoo! Widget Engine.
- Flickr Wallpaper - simple desktop wallpaper changer that downloads photos based on tags from flickr.
- Flickr hack: All Sizes for all pics - The public API gives directions for constructing the url of any photo based on information in the HTML of every photo page.
- Phlickr - open source PHP5 based API kit used to access the Flickr API.
- Flickr Projects - a series of three projects investigating what constitutes the self. The projects are egoshotr, fixr and mixrrr.
- Flickratr - rate different Flickr photos.
- Steeev’s Flickr Projects - a collection of flickr greasemonkey scripts and other Flickr programming projects.
- GLFlickrShow - uses OpenGL to produce fullscreen slideshows with transition effects.
- Flickr People Finder - a way of finding people on the big Flickr visualization.
- Flickr Greasemonkey Scripts - huge collection of scripts that modify and enhance Flickr.
- Flickr at Userscripts - More greasemonkey scripts tagged with flickr.
- flickrsavr.py - python script that saves URLs of public photos and saves a local copy of thumbnails. It also stores descriptions, dates, and tags in a database.
- Flickr Top Toolbar - a Greasemonkey script that insets a toolbar across the top of all Flickr pages.
- Photo Comment Tool - One-click grab and publish any Flickr photo into a Flickr photo comment stream or forum post.
- BreadKrumbs - lets you build instant page to page journeys across Flickr photos.
- fd’s Flickr Toys - fun tools for Flickr photos.
- Flickr Framer - Online image editing to frame your online flickr photos.
- Magazine Cover Toy - lets you make magazine covers from your Flickr photos.
- Flickr.rb - Ruby interface to the Flickr photo-sharing service.
- QOOP Flickr Photo Printer - online photo printing service for your Flickr photos.
- Flickr idGettr - helps you find your Flickr user id number.
- Flickr Tag Fight - tool to fight Flickr tags and compare the results.
- Steganography with Flickr - Explains how steganographied images can be shared with Flickr friends to pass on documents or other files.
- dFlickr - wraps most functions of the Flickr API and provides the necessary classes to access users/photos/photosets/groups/pools/blogs on Flickr.
- Notifyr - lets you subscribe to a Flickr photo page and get email notifications whenever new images are added.
- FlickrJ - Java wrapper for the Flickr REST API.
- Mosaic Maker - Make a square or rectangular mosaic from a photoset or individual images.
- Associatr - Browse related tags on Flickr.
- Flickr Montager - lets you create photo mosaics using Flickr tags.
- Longline Tool - makes mosaics from the Long Line group pool over at Flickr.
- Flickr Schwag - three Flickr buttons and two Flickr stickers. Unfortunately, they are out of schwag.
- Flippr! - grabs pictures from Flickr and puts them on your desktop.
- Flickr .NET - A .NET wrapper around the Flickr API. Allows desktop and web applications to provide direct image upload functionality to Flickr and its services.
- Lickr - Lickr strips the Flash before the user can even see it, and replaces it with an equivalent interface in pure HTML and Javascript. Flickr now runs on a non-flash interface.
- Flickr Screensaver - Creates a slideshow of Flickr photos.
- Keyword Assistant - plugin for iPhoto to make keyword management easier.
- Localize Bookmarklet - bookmarklet that enables mapping, geocoding and geotagging directly in your Flickr photo page.
- flickReplacr bookmarklet - lets you swap a Flickr picture for a word.
- Flickr Graph explores the social relationships inside Flickr.
- Recent Photos Slideshow & Screensaver - Slideshow view and windows screensaver of recent images upoaded to flickr.
- FlickrExport - is a plugin for iPhoto 4 which provides a direct export interface to Flickr.
- flickrate - wants to give Flickr a rating system.
- FlickrClient is a Python interface to the Flickr API.
- 50 people See - is a program to blend Flickr images which share the same tags.
- Flickr Postcard Browser - Browse Flickr Postcards
- Spahk - MobileMashup to View photographs from Flickr based on keywords (tags) or a random sampling of interesting photographs on Java-enabled phones with MIDP 2.0 support.
- Mobup - J2ME application that manages mobile photo uploads on your Flickr account
- Spell with Flickr - Generate Flickr letter images according to the text you write.
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I just wrote a tool to retrieve original size of any flickr photo so check it out!
Hello,
please consider my Statr for Flickr application.
Statr for Flickr collects data through api calls and allows you to track and plot page views statistics for your Flickr account. Graphs are automatically updated on a daily basis and can be linked from external websites.
http://linuxinside.org/flickr/
comments/suggestions are welcome.
Nice list! You might want to add iP2F, our Flickr upload plugin for iPhoto, to your upload tools list:
http://www.tagtraum.com/ip2f.html
Hi there,
We have also developed a cool Flickr related application. It is a recommendation engine, based on the user’s taste:
http://images.insuggest.com/
I would like to suggest this tool:
Flash Gallery - free application that allows to create an online slideshow from Flickr photostream.
Quickr Flickr is now called quickr pickr and has moved to http://www.quickrpickr.com