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• Working with Flickr API from ActionScript 3

  Posted in April 05, 2009 - Folder: 2009 - Tags: air, actionscript, api

  First, load crossdomain, otherwise will not let you use Bitmap data.

  Source is important as .swc is out of date

  • http://code.google.com/p/as3flickrlib/source/checkout
  • http://code.google.com/p/as3corelib/source/checkout
  • http://groups.google.com/group/as3flickrlib

      import com.adobe.webapis.*;
      import com.adobe.webapis.flickr.*;
      import com.adobe.webapis.flickr.events.*;
  
      public const APIKEY:String = "adf569d38227fb6ef9be9d1561048412";
      public const APISECRET:String = "85d8f7e53294356c";
      
      public var flickr:FlickrService;
  
          flickr = new FlickrService(this.APIKEY);
          flickr.secret = this.APISECRET;
          
          
          var a:String = "TEST STRING PASSED";
          flickr.addEventListener(FlickrResultEvent.TEST_ECHO, onEcho);
          flickr.test.echo(a);
                          
          flickr.addEventListener(FlickrResultEvent.PEOPLE_GET_PUBLIC_PHOTOS, onPublic);				
          flickr.people.getPublicPhotos('15711607@N07');
      }
      private function onEcho(e:FlickrResultEvent):void{
          trace("Result is ", e.success);
      }
      
      private function onPublic(e:FlickrResultEvent):void{
          var photoList:PagedPhotoList = PagedPhotoList(e.data.photos);
          trace("Public photos received");
          for each(var p:Photo in photoList.photos){
                  var squareUrl:String = "http://static.flickr.com/" + p.server + "/" + p.id + "_" + p.secret + "_s.jpg";
                  p.url = squareUrl;
                  cMain.arrPhotos.addItem(p);
          }	
          
      }