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Hi Jim Thanks for your help... but I don't think that it's this: >> One way to check if this is the same problem is to run your tag search on the Flickr site while logged in and logged out of Flickr because the tag search does return the same number of results whether I'm logged in or not. It also seems to be ignoring images that have been added since Sunday, though I can't find anything materially different about the images themselves. Thanks again Danny -----Original Message----- From: Museums Computer Group on behalf of Jim O'Donnell Sent: Mon 10/18/2010 6:08 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [MCG] Help! Flickr API conundrum.... Hi Danny, We had the same problem building apps for Astronomy Photographer of the Year at the Royal Observatory - the Flickr search API returned fewer items than expected from searching the Flickr web site.. Turned out Flickr safe search, which is enabled for anonymous searches, was to blame. Our solution was to use the auth API and sign all calls as a Flickr user. That's quite a big change to make to your app, I'm afraid, but it may solve your problem. One way to check if this is the same problem is to run your tag search on the Flickr site while logged in and logged out of Flickr. Cheers Jim On 18 October 2010 17:44, Birchall, Danny <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi > > This is a slightly desperate plea for help with the Flickr API for an > application that has to be ready for a press view at 10am tomorrow, so > any thought you can devote to it will be very gratefully appreciated.... > > When I look at my Flickr stream for images tagged 'object', I get 267 > results: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/wellcomecollectionthings/tags/object/ > > however, if I try the same search via the API, I get only 224 results: > > http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.photos.search&api_key > =730e87f0c0a1b19e587ca1f8b57974df&user_id=52767375@N04&tags=object&per_p > age=500 > > (I'm searching the photostream of the same account for images taggged > object) > > The global settings on the account I'm searching gives permission for > 3rd party searches; individual images are all freely searchable; but no > method of searching for them seems to reveal them > > Is there any other reason why Flickr might be hiding these images from > the API but not elsewhere? > > Thanks very much in advance for any light you can shed on this... > > Danny > > > > > > Danny Birchall > Web Editor, Wellcome Collection > Wellcome Trust > Gibbs Building > 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, UK > Tele: +44 (0) 207 611 8894 > email: [log in to unmask] > www.wellcomecollection.org > www.twitter.com/explorewellcome > > > > > This message has been scanned for viruses by Websense Hosted Email Security > - www.websense.com > > **************************************************************** > For mcg information visit the mcg website at > http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/ > To manage your subscription to this email list visit > http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/email-list/ > **************************************************************** > **************************************************************** For mcg information visit the mcg website at http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/ To manage your subscription to this email list visit http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/email-list/ **************************************************************** **************************************************************** For mcg information visit the mcg website at http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/ To manage your subscription to this email list visit http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/email-list/ ****************************************************************