I mentioned earlier about the utility of SimpleViewer, and how it probably could be used to pull from flickr, and display photos. well what do you know; i started writing a little app that will be used for pulling from one of your subscribed groups into a local dir. I wrote it because our beatography group wants to have some kind of “outpost”, coming from our flickr pool photos. it’s written in php, and it’s all controlled from a URL, passing your flickr user and pass, and the group name or ID.

some groups i’ve pulled as tests

TODO:

• links back to group pool
• links back to the picture
• and the owner of the photo
• license filtering

i think its off to a good start. i’ve learned enough writing this that this is a positive step on my way to my master plan spoken of ages ago about my own flickr cache, suitable for burning. :)

i’ll have a front end available during the weekend probably, and have this generally available by the end of the month (we’re moving!!! so we’ll be busy)