By whallsey on

Hi

I feel like I've been on a massive treasure hunt since I started trying to work out a complete solution for showing my Flickr images without hosting each one on my webstie. I started with Drupal about a month ago.

I wish I had known how good the embedded image field/lightbox 2 recipe was at the start. They didn't integrate properly until I started using the latest dev version of lightbox 2, but now that I have, they do exactly what I want them to.

Visually, the solution looks great. I can see only two limitations from a functionality perspective, and wondered if anyone else had views or thoughts about this:

1. My personal website is passworded for family members. In order for my website to access Flickr through Flickr's API I think I need to keep the Flickr website completely open to all. It would be nice if I could make my Flickr website private too, but let anyone logged into my own website access it freely without having to enter further passwords. Any ideas if this is do-able? (As an aside I'd love to achieve the same thing with my embedded Vimeo videos).

2. I was thinking about Sean Effel's excellent "feed API + emfield" video tutorial here: http://www.drupaltherapy.com/node/34. This recipe could be used to pull all of my Flickr photos into embedded image fields at the touch of a button. However, I am not aware of a way to pull in the meta data about each photo from the Flickr website. Is there some way to do this so that Views can see that meta data (eg upload date, tags), and use it to filter/sort? To my mind this would perfect the whole thing.

Thanks for any thoughts.

Andrew

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