Get user photos by tag for Openlaszlo’s Flickr Lib

Openlaszlo is really nice to do quick and easy prototypes or applications. It gives you a good structure, and a nice data binding mechanism.

It also has a very small and practical library for Flickr API. It’s called “libflickr” and comes any release for some long now. You can find it in the incubator and there is a simple example to learn how to use it.

Although this Lib has a lot of features, I thought that one was missing: Searching user photos with a particular set of tags.

Yes, I know that the first example is how to search photos with a bunch of tags.. but not for a user only.
These seems to me as a must have feature as normally you may want to restrict your search to a particular user.

Ok, so, what can we do? Well, it’s really very simple.. just add following method to the ‘gFlickr’ Node on ‘libflickr.lzx’ file:

         <method name="searchUserWithTags" args="user, tags, apikey">
            var argobj = [
                    {argname:"method",
                        argvalue:"flickr.photos.search"},
                    {argname:"user_id",
                        argvalue:user},
                    {argname:"tags",
                        argvalue:tags},
                    {argname:"extras",
                        argvalue:"owner_name"}
                ]
            this.doFlickrRequest(photods, argobj, apikey);
        </method>

Now you can call this method with your user nsid (how to get it!), your tags and your Flickr API key.

This is just a simple usage/extension of the lib. You can check out Flickr Search API and create your own methods of just generalize this.