Getting Started

There are 2 ways to create the GaeFlickrLib object, which provides the connection to the Flickr API.

You can create it yourself, manually:

from gaeflickrlib import GaeFlickrLib

flickr = GaeFlickrLib(api_key = 'some key',
                      api_secret = 'some secret',
                      token = 'some user\'s credentials')
photos = flickr.photos_search(text = '...')

where any of the parameters are option if gaeflconfig.py is provided (otherwise, api_key is required).

Or, you can use the @FlickrAuthed decorator for your webapp request handler methods, which will automatically handle auth sessions with Flickr and create a flickr object for you in the method’s namespace:

from gaeflickrlib import FlickrAuthed

class MyHandler(webapp.RequestHandler):
    @FlickrAuthed
    def get(self):
        photos = flickr.photos_search(text = '...')

Note: this method requires the use of the FlickrAuthCallbackHandler request handler.