Last modified: 2014-10-31 01:41:07 UTC
Intention: Wanted for a campaign to use indexes on Commons to find maps in the 1-million image British Library flickr stream. I would like this page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:British_Library/Mechanical_Curator_collection/map_tag_status to include a tally of the number of Flickr tags added as the result of the campaign. I would like to use Flickr::API to navigate the Flickr authorisation system. I can get the data using a plain HTML GET request and a Flickr API key, but the API key expires after a few hours, so it will be hard to keep the code working. Using the Flickr::API module would be the 'right way' to do this. Possibly this is as simple as somebody with the right permissions just running 'cpanm Flickr::API' ? Reproducible: Didn't try
I should add that the campaign starts with a tagathon event in eight hours time ... so I'm possibly being optimistic. Just to clarify: with the Flickr::API in place, I don't need to worry about the API key expiring, because the perl module will automatically negotiate a new one. But without the perl module things are going to be a bit more flaky.
