After quickly getting tired of copying settings across manually, I developed a tool which will output a Lightroom or Photoshop preset file based on the metadata found for that Flickr photo. Simply enter the full URL of the photo into the tool below and you’re away!

It is limited to photos which have metadata publicly available. Also custom point tone curve information isn’t converted- as the Flickr metadata page unfortunately doesn’t show all it.

Let me know if you have any suggestions or find any bugs. If you find it useful and have a website, please link to this blog post.

UPDATE 05/05/2010: Flickr doesn’t show the processing settings on their metadata page anymore – so unfortunately this converter won’t work any longer. Hope you enjoyed it whilst you had time to use it. Since it’s creation it’s done 3962 conversions!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/oliviaaboone/3413132355/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/darad/3647545934/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrbokeh/3431041361/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/luke_photos/3253547711/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewfphoto/3083636655/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jup3nep/3183738239/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/moretrees/2924950280/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/superbaka/2881682850/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/21963462@N07/2584732746/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kayodeok/2084089437/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/virtualbiscuit/3516078086/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22553353@N00/3618847572/

Flickr API integration on my (now old) website

We will be using the phpFlickr class which you can download from here. Once uploaded to your web server, you will need find three variables:

1. Your Flickr username – this is usually pretty obvious (mine is “joesmalley” – I know this as the URL to my photos is http://www.flickr.com/photos/joesmalley/).
2. Your Flickr API key – you can get yours from http://www.flickr.com/services/api/key.gne.
3. Your Flickr ‘secret’ – you will be given this when you receive your API key.

Once you have those three things, you just need some of my PHP wizardry to make it all work:

<?php

// Settings
$flickrUsername = "";
$flickrApiKey = "";
$flickrSecret = "";
$photosPerRow = 5;
$totalPhotos = 10;

include_once("phpFlickr-2.3.0.1/phpFlickr.php");

if(class_exists('phpFlickr')){

 $f = new phpFlickr($flickrApiKey, $flickrSecret, false );

 if (!empty($f)) {
 $person = $f->people_findByUsername($flickrUsername);
 $photos_url = $f->urls_getUserPhotos($person['id']);
 $photos = $f->people_getPublicPhotos($person['id'], NULL, 1,$totalPhotos);

 // Get the date
 $lastphoto = $f->photos_getInfo($photos['photos']['photo'][0]['id']);
 echo "<p class=\"flickr-last-updated\">Last updated: ". date("l M j, Y", $lastphoto['dateuploaded']) ."</p>
 <ul id='flickr'>";    

 // Get the photos
 $i = 1;
 foreach ($photos['photos']['photo'] as $photo) {

 echo "<li";
 if ($i % $photosPerRow == 0) {
 echo " class=\"last\"";
 }
 echo "><a href=\"" . $photos_url . $photo['id'] . "\" target=\"_blank\">";
 echo "<img width=\"50\" height=\"50\" src=\"http://farm".$photo['farm'].".static.flickr.com/".$photo['server']."/".$photo['id']."_".$photo['secret']."_s.jpg\" alt=\"\"/></a></li>\n";

 $i++;

 }
 }
 echo "</ul>";

} else {
 echo "Error: phpFlickr has not been imported";
}

?>

And some CSS to get it looking nice:

br.clear {
	clear: both;
	display: block;
	overflow: hidden;
	width: 0;
	height: 0;
}

p.flickr-last-updated{
	color: #999999;
	font-size: 11px;
	margin-bottom: 6px;
}

ul#flickr li{
	display: block;
	float: left;
	margin: 0 4px 4px 0;
	width: 50px;
	height: 50px;
}

ul#flickr li.last{
	margin-right: 0;
}