Flickr

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Flickr
Flickr mainpage in 2010-12-20
Flickr mainpage in 2010-12-20
URL http://www.flickr.com
Status Online!
Archiving status Not saved yet
Archiving type Unknown
IRC channel #archiveteam-bs (on hackint)

Flickr is an image and video hosting website currently owned by Yahoo!. Any data uploaded can be private or public.

Backup Tools

Vital Signs

Seems to be stable, can probably change at any time.

May 2013 update: new interface; apparently very overloaded and masses of pro users abandoning the place, deleting their profiles and/or wishing to archive it.

Nov 2014 update: Yahoo's step to sell the CC-licensed pictures upset a lot of users (who obviously did not understand this license) and may now want to delete their accounts (with up to 10k images each).

Dec 2015 update: Yahoo!'s Action Plan in their 2015 shareholder presentation mentions killing Flickr.

API

Documentation

  • flickr.photos.search
    • returns only 1999 unique results
    • filtering by upload date is limited to 600s accuracy
    • total number of results is inaccurate

See also

External links