Flickr photo search
Flickr photos matching text or tags, 25 a page: id, link, title, description, license, owner, faves, comments, likes and every image size with its URL and dimensions. Filter by license, media type, taken or upload dates, orientation, dominant colour, style, minimum size, content type (photos, screenshots, art), safe-search level, a place (lat/lon with radius), Flickr Commons and photos in galleries (the filters applied are echoed in applied_filters); sort by relevance, date or interestingness. Pass next_page back as page; null on the last page.
Every response includes credits_used: the credits this call cost.
Parameters
| name | type | description |
|---|---|---|
q | string | Search text (q or tags is required). Example: sunset |
tags | string | Comma-separated tags to match. |
license | string | Comma-separated Flickr license ids: 0 All Rights Reserved, 1 CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, 2 CC BY-NC 2.0, 3 CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, 4 CC BY 2.0, 5 CC BY-SA 2.0, 6 CC BY-ND 2.0, 7 No known copyright restrictions, 8 US Government Work, 9 CC0, 10 Public Domain Mark, 11-16 the CC 4.0 licenses (BY, BY-SA, BY-ND, BY-NC, BY-NC-SA, BY-NC-ND). Example: 4,5,9,10 |
sort | relevance | date-posted-desc | date-posted-asc | date-taken-desc | date-taken-asc | interestingness-desc | Sort order. Example: relevance |
media | all | photos | videos | all (default), photos or videos. Example: all |
min_taken_date | string | Taken on or after (YYYY-MM-DD). |
max_taken_date | string | Taken on or before (YYYY-MM-DD). |
min_upload_date | string | Uploaded on or after (YYYY-MM-DD). |
max_upload_date | string | Uploaded on or before (YYYY-MM-DD). |
orientation | string | Comma-separated: landscape, portrait, square, panorama. |
color | string | Dominant colour(s), comma-separated: red, dark_orange, orange, yellow, school_bus_yellow, green, lime, cyan, blue, violet, pink, pale_pink, white, gray, black. |
style | string | Comma-separated: blackandwhite, depthoffield, minimalism, pattern. |
min_width | integer | Minimum width in pixels. |
min_height | integer | Minimum height in pixels. |
content_type | string | Comma-separated: photos, screenshots, art, virtual. |
safe_search | safe | moderate | restricted | safe, moderate or restricted. |
lat | number | Latitude of a place to search around (with lon). |
lon | number | Longitude of a place to search around (with lat). |
radius_km | number | Radius around lat/lon in km (default 5, max 32). |
is_commons | boolean | Only photos from The Commons (public-domain archives). |
in_gallery | boolean | Only photos that appear in a gallery. |
page | integer | Page number, starting at 1. Example: 1 |
Every endpoint also takes fresh, raw, fields (see lean responses and caching).
Example
curl "https://api.api.sh/flickr/v1/search?q=sunset" \
-H "x-api-key: $APISH_KEY" import os, requests
res = requests.get(
"https://api.api.sh/flickr/v1/search",
params={"q": "sunset"},
headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["APISH_KEY"]},
timeout=120,
)
res.raise_for_status()
data = res.json() const url = new URL("https://api.api.sh/flickr/v1/search");
url.searchParams.set("q", "sunset");
const res = await fetch(url, { headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.APISH_KEY } });
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`${res.status} ${await res.text()}`);
const data = await res.json(); Response
A JSON object with the fields described above, plus raw (the source's own data), cached, fetched_at and credits_used. Errors return {"success": false, "error": "…"} with the HTTP status (see errors). A lookup that ran but found nothing (404) costs the price above; refused calls and errors on our side are free (what's charged).