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Finding a flickr account from a picture URL

I got an e-mail with links to some great pictures on flickr. These are direct links to the pictures, and I want to see more pictures taken by this person. Is there a way to find the account from the picture URLs?

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Yaniv
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Yaniv Answered:

The 133527964 part of the URL is the Flickr picture ID.

However, the full Flickr picture URL is http://flickr.com/username/picture-id, so so the picture ID is not enough if you don't know the username. 

Luckily, googling for the picture ID on the flickr site is likely to point you to the right direction.

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aflickr.com+133527964

In this case, it returns two links, and one of them is the picture you're looking for:

http://flickr.com/photos/carradine65/133527964/

Enjoy Smile

 

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yoavdothan
yoavdothan Answered:

Very easy:

Enter http://www.flickr.com/ , then paste the name use by  the person who took the picture and you get all the photos that exist in the site from the same person.

Here is an example with a person named jonholato

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonholato/

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DinosaurJr
DinosaurJr Answered:

Thanks, but I'm afraid I wasn't clear: I don't have the username, all I have is links to a few pictures. I'm trying to find a way in the opposite direction: from the pictures to the username.

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yoavdothan
yoavdothan Answered:

If you have the URL then press on it. When you get to the flickr site you will see the user name , and you will be able to see all his posted answers.

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DinosaurJr
DinosaurJr Answered:

I really appreciate your efforts, yoavdothan. But it's a link to a picture, not a page with a username. Here's an example:

http://static.flickr.com/55/133527964_911184289d_b.jpg 

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yoavdothan
yoavdothan Answered:

Very good example of how finding the photo mentioned by Dinosaur Jr.

The link leads (of course...) to "Dinosaur Jr. at the Troubador in Los Angeles on April 22, 2006" 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/carradine65/

will lead you to his 1775 photos (as of 31.10.06)

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DinosaurJr
DinosaurJr Answered:

Thanks Yaniv. Sounds good. Unfortunately this way works well with the example I gave earlier, but doesn't work with the pictures I got on that e-mail. They were taken a few days ago, so I guess Google didn't index them yet. I'll wait a few days and try again.

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Premasagar
Premasagar Answered:

You can do it this way...

As Yaniv says, you can get the photo id from the image src:
http://static.flickr.com/55/133527964_911184289d_b.jpg

For this photo, the id is 133527964.

Use the photo id in this link:
http://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=PHOTO_ID

You will be magically transported to the photopage :o)

(I see that it is a photo of your namesake, Dinosaur Jr) 

• <a href="http://premasagar.com/" rel="nofollow">Premasagar.com</a><a href="http://premasagar.com/" rel="nofollow"> </a> • <a href="http://dharmafly.com/" rel="nofollow">Dharmafly</a>
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rp
rp Answered:

DinosaurJr - If google still hasn't indexed the pages you're looking for, you can use flickr's api. 

Simplest way to do it is to go to http://flickr.com/services/api/explore/?method=flickr.photos.getInfo (which is the api explorer page for the function flickr.photos.getInfo), and fill the photo_id field with the value that Yaniv described above (e.g., 133527964).

After you click the "Call Method..." button you'll get an XML result.  At the bottom of that result you will be able to see the url for the photo page.  It will be something like:

 <url type="photopage">
             http://www.flickr.com/photos/carradine65/133527964/
 </url>

This is the page you're looking for. 

 

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