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Add Flickr photosets to a Django site

1. Set up connection

(Note that I just put a dummy key, secret and userid)

import flickrapi
key = '123456789abcdefghijklmn'
secret = '123456a7890'
userid = '123456@N16'
flickr = flickrapi.FlickrAPI(key, secret)

2. Retrieve the photosets

from lxml import etree
sets = flickr.photosets.getList(user_id=userid)
photoset = sets.findall(".//photoset")[0]
print etree.tostring(photoset)

will return

<photoset id="72157674032173850" primary="30292011566" secret="c384c894ce" server="8552" farm="9" photos="31" videos="0" needs_interstitial="0" visibility_can_see_set="1" count_views="0" count_comments="0" can_comment="0" date_create="1476484376" date_update="1476488433">
    <title>Canada 2016</title>
    <description>Visit to Toronto, Montreal and the Falls.</description>
</photoset>

3. Connect to Django

Since I want to add to pictures from Flickr to my Django webpage, I need to connect to the database.

import os, sys
project_path = '/opt/env/django_project/'
os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "django_project.settings")
sys.path.append(project_path)

4. Load the Photoset model

Now we set the path to be the Django path, we can import the models from my blog.

import django
django.setup()
from blog.models import Photoset
for field in Photoset._meta.get_fields():
    print field

This will show the fields of the model.

<ManyToOneRel: blog.photo>
blog.Photoset.id
blog.Photoset.flickr_id
blog.Photoset.secret
blog.Photoset.title
blog.Photoset.description
blog.Photoset.date_create
blog.Photoset.date_update
blog.Photoset.created
blog.Photoset.modified

5. Add Flickr photosets to Django

if not Photoset.objects.filter(flickr_id=photoset.get('id')).exists():
    blog_photoset = Photoset()
    blog_photoset.flickr_id = photoset.get('id')
    blog_photoset.secret = photoset.get('secret')
    blog_photoset.title = photoset.find('title').text
    blog_photoset.description = photoset.find('description').text if photoset.find('description').text is 'null' else ""
    blog_photoset.date_create = photoset.get('date_create')
    blog_photoset.date_update = photoset.get('date_update')
    blog_photoset.save()
    print "Added photoset '%s' to database!" % (blog_photoset.title)
else:
    print "Photoset '%s' already in database!" % (photoset.find('title').text)

In my case the photoset has already been added.

Photoset 'Canada 2016' already in database!

6. Retrieve photos from Flickr photoset

for photo in flickr.walk_set(photoset.attrib['id']):
    photo_element = flickr.photos.getinfo(photo_id=photo.get('id')).find('./photo')
    print etree.tostring(photo_element)
    break # Just print one

This will return the XML object of a photo.

<photo id="30326779825" secret="78076b80de" server="8140" farm="9" dateuploaded="1476484428" isfavorite="0" license="0" safety_level="0" rotation="270" originalsecret="cb36a41988" originalformat="jpg" views="1" media="photo">
    <owner nsid="45832294@N06" username="jitsejan" realname="Jitse-Jan van Waterschoot" location="" iconserver="5495" iconfarm="6" path_alias="jitsejan"/>
    <title>Looking at the city</title>
    <description/>
    <visibility ispublic="1" isfriend="0" isfamily="0"/>
    <dates posted="1476484428" taken="2016-08-26 04:14:31" takengranularity="0" takenunknown="0" lastupdate="1476700149"/>
    <editability cancomment="0" canaddmeta="0"/>
    <publiceditability cancomment="1" canaddmeta="0"/>
    <usage candownload="1" canblog="0" canprint="0" canshare="1"/>
    <comments>0</comments>
    <notes/>
    <people haspeople="0"/>
    <tags/>
    <urls>
        <url type="photopage">https://www.flickr.com/photos/jitsejan/30326779825/</url>
       </urls>
</photo>

7. Create URL for Flickr photo

# url_template = "http://farm{farm-id}.staticflickr.com/{server-id}/{id}_{secret}_[mstzb].jpg" 
url = "http://farm%(farm)s.staticflickr.com/%(server)s/%(id)s_%(secret)s_z.jpg" % photo.attrib
print url

Resulting URL:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8140/30326779825_78076b80de_z.jpg

8. Load the Photo model

from blog.models import Photo
for field in Photo._meta.get_fields():
    print field

Above code will show the fields of the Photo model in Django.

blog.Photo.id
blog.Photo.flickr_id
blog.Photo.title
blog.Photo.description
blog.Photo.date_posted
blog.Photo.date_taken
blog.Photo.url
blog.Photo.image_url
blog.Photo.created
blog.Photo.modified
blog.Photo.photoset

9. Add Flickr photo to Django

blog_photo = Photo()
blog_photo.flickr_id = photo.get('id')
blog_photo.title = photo.get('title')
blog_photo.description = photo.get('description') if photoset.get('description') is 'null' else ""
blog_photo.date_posted = photo_element.find('dates').attrib['posted']
blog_photo.date_taken = photo_element.find('dates').attrib['taken']
blog_photo.url = photo_element.find('urls/url').text
blog_photo.image_url = url
try:
    blog_photo.photoset = blog_photoset
except:
    blog_photo.photoset = Photoset.objects.filter(flickr_id=photoset.get('id'))[0]
if not Photo.objects.filter(flickr_id=blog_photo.flickr_id).exists():
    blog_photo.save()
    print "Added photo '%s' to database!" % (blog_photo.title)
else:
    print "Photo '%s' already in database!" % (blog_photo.title)

Again, the item is already in the database in my case.

Photo 'Looking at the city' already in database!
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