Athena - A LINQ to flickr API

Source code checked in, #c256bc92e423

mehfuzh — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:03:38 GMT

Updated Wiki: Home

mehfuzh — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:48:26 GMT

Updated Wiki: Home

mehfuzh — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:45:34 GMT

Updated Wiki: Home

mehfuzh — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 05:54:05 GMT

In greek mythology athena was a godess of wisdom. But here Athena (also known as LINQ.flickr) is a LINQ to flickr API that let you query and make changes to flickr photo stream with the first-class query syntax called LINQ. it can be used to query (search by tag, literal or user) , insert or delete photos, add/ delete comments, query popular tags, people, do authenticaton and more by an easy way thus making app building joyful.

Current release is way too old, please download the latest version from source tab

Authentication
API is responsible for taking user from main app to login process to granting API access and continue where he is left off.

Token Storage
Location where the auth_token is stored , after user returns from flickr site (web app) or closes the browser (desktop app), doing with authentication and granting the app.

Desktop Application - Inside an Xml file. Path is defined by user in app.config
Web application - User cookie, valid for 30 days.

Which means, user will be taken for authentication once to flickr site, when he/she queries private or semi-private photo.

Requirements for using Athena
- API and Secret key. You can get one for free, from http://www.flickr.com/api

Builidng the source
There is a build.bat in the root of the src folder. Just run it to make your own build. If Typemock is installed in your pc it will also do a unit test. NAnt and Nunit
Stripped down version is added with the src, only you need to change the Typemock path in Main.Build if you install typemock other than 4.3.*.

Application showcase
FlickrXplorer - An MVC flickr photo explorer http://www.codeplex.com/flickrXplorer
FlickrDeDupr - http://flickrdedupr.rpgaddicts.net/ - by hastarin

API on which it is built
LinqExtender http://www.codeplex.com/LinqExtender

Reference
New LINQ proivder for Flickr - http://weblogs.asp.net/mehfuzh/archive/2007/10/28/new-linq-provider-for-flickr.aspx

Also try other posts to get the lastest info.
http://weblogs.asp.net/mehfuzh/search.aspx?q=linq.flickr&o=Relevance

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Source code checked in, #2a83ab95a614

mehfuzh — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 21:13:52 GMT

Fixed "Error initalizing base" during config load Refactor. Cleanup

Source code checked in, #380bfa0a8677

mehfuzh — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 10:57:39 GMT

Added test for ExtrasOption response validation.

New Post: Description and Tags not Loading

mehfuzh — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 10:52:10 GMT

Hi,

Please make sure that photo response has the correct tags. Generally for photo list, response tag looks like:

You can here see that there is no Description node. I added a test named ShouldValidateResponseForExtrasOption under PhotoFixture.cs. Please check it out for more info.

Thanks!!

New Post: Description and Tags not Loading

mehfuzh — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 07:14:54 GMT

Hi,

Sorry for the late reply. This seems to be a bug. I will upload a patch on this later this week.

New Post: Description and Tags not Loading

afriedman111 — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 13:05:49 GMT

I am using LinqToFlickr in .NET 4.0 and am able to upload new photos with descriptions and tags. When I retrieve them, however, the tags and description are not coming back. I don't know if there is something that I'm missing. Here is the query that I'm using:

var query = from photo in context.Photos

where photo.ViewMode == ViewMode.Owner

&& photo.Extras == (ExtrasOption.Views | ExtrasOption.Date_Taken | ExtrasOption.Date_Upload | ExtrasOption.Tags | ExtrasOption.Date_Upload)

select photo;

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Source code checked in, #48a2b869030b

mehfuzh — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:03:16 GMT

Added Init tests.

Source code checked in, #1cf2c96d6cb3

mehfuzh — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 22:04:46 GMT

Clean up

New Post: Any plans to release a .NET 4 version?

mehfuzh — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:09:59 GMT

What is the error you are getting when complied against .NET 4? I am asking this because it builds in my dev machine successfully. If you give me some pointers then i can take a look. About your second question, I have plan to redo the whole API in a even better way. I will keep things posted here.

-M

New Post: Any plans to release a .NET 4 version?

subcreation — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:46:37 GMT

I used Athena in a previous project that was built for .NET 3.5, and I love it. However, I had to recreate my work in a new .NET 4 project and Athena doesn't seem to work in it, and I can't get the source to build for .NET 4. Does anyone know if there are plans to release a version of Athena for .NET 4? Thanks!

Source code checked in, #fd805af0cdb7

mehfuzh — Mon, 31 May 2010 07:33:07 GMT

Added proxies.

Source code checked in, #b2e2d2467ce9

mehfuzh — Wed, 26 May 2010 20:31:32 GMT

Removed TFS binding , its all mercurial!!!

Updated Wiki: Home

mehfuzh — Wed, 26 May 2010 20:30:04 GMT

In greek mythology athena was a godess of wisdom. But here Athena (also known as LINQ.flickr) is a LINQ to flickr API that let you query and make changes to flickr photo stream with the first-class query syntax called LINQ. it can be used to query (search by tag, literal or user) , insert or delete photos, add/ delete comments, query popular tags, people, do authenticaton and more by an easy way thus making app building joyful.

Features
- Add/remove photos feature, just like LINQ to SQL objects.
- View single photo (currently , supports , single, first, last for single viewing)
- Automated login process, supported both for desktop and web application.
- Take and Skip methods. Eg. Skip(1).Take(20), means - Page 2, page length 20
- Full text Search by SearchMode.FreeText
- Tag only search by SearchMode.Tags with TagMode := AND or OR.
- Search by user along with SearchText.
- Comments Query, add / delete.
- List of popular tags. (sort them by title or score).
- Query people by NSID or username.
- Order by asc/dsc by Datetaken and DatePosted.
- Anon query projection.
- Query people , by username or nsId
- Query Popular tags, order by score , title or period
- Query photos by Extras option , Turn on Safe Search.
- Update Photo Title, Description, Update comments.
- Easy interfaces for authenticaton.

Current release 1.4

Authentication
API is responsible for taking user from main app to login process to granting API access and continue where he is left off.

Token Storage
Location where the auth_token is stored , after user returns from flickr site (web app) or closes the browser (desktop app), doing with authentication and granting the app.

Desktop Application - Inside an Xml file. Path is defined by user in app.config
Web application - User cookie, valid for 30 days.

Which means, user will be taken for authentication once to flickr site, when he/she queries private or semi-private photo.

Requirements for using Athena
- API and Secret key. You can get one for free, from http://www.flickr.com/api

Builidng the source
There is a build.bat in the root of the src folder. Just run it to make your own build. If Typemock is installed in your pc it will also do a unit test. NAnt and Nunit
Stripped down version is added with the src, only you need to change the Typemock path in Main.Build if you install typemock other than 4.3.*.

Application showcase
FlickrXplorer - An MVC flickr photo explorer http://www.codeplex.com/flickrXplorer
FlickrDeDupr - http://flickrdedupr.rpgaddicts.net/ - by hastarin

API on which it is built
LinqExtender http://www.codeplex.com/LinqExtender

Reference
New LINQ proivder for Flickr - http://weblogs.asp.net/mehfuzh/archive/2007/10/28/new-linq-provider-for-flickr.aspx

Also try other posts to get the lastest info.
http://weblogs.asp.net/mehfuzh/search.aspx?q=linq.flickr&o=Relevance

--

Want to contribute? Please mail at mehfuz att gmail dot com

Source code checked in, #5aa7b3cad893

mehfuzh — Wed, 26 May 2010 20:24:11 GMT

Removed files

Source code checked in, #4692fc1fd19e

mehfuzh — Wed, 26 May 2010 20:23:31 GMT

Removed typemock dlls, will be implementing proxy pattern that wont require special stuffs.

New Post: Flickr Groups

dwatkins82 — Mon, 17 May 2010 15:33:04 GMT

I would like to be able to query for images contained within a group on Flickr. Had a look through and can't see how this is possible. Is this a planned addition to this code at all?

New Post: Show tags regardingly to picture in tooltips

darrencauthon — Fri, 07 May 2010 02:48:36 GMT

I really wish I could help, but I'm blocked up on time. If this question is open in another 6-8 weeks, I can take a look then.