Attention Developers
by Kristopher Tate | 27 March 2006 | Announcements | 20 Comments
Hey everyone, good stuff to talk about today. As I briefly announced at SFWIN last week, Zooomr now supports the Flickr API.
What does this mean?
This means that all of the thousands of libraries and applications available for flickr can be used with Zooomr with just a few quick modifications. Here’s what’s required:
Changing the following URL endpoints to their new endpoints on Zooomr:
http://flickr.com to http://beta.zooomr.com
/services/auth to /auth
/services/upload to /bluenote/api/upload
/services/rest to /bluenote/api/rest
Some Caveats
Yes, there are some caveats so-far to Zooomr picking-up the Flickr API. First is that it is not 100% complete. For the most part, only upload and photo look-up services are available. Here is a list of all working methods:
Auth
- flickr.auth.checkToken
- flickr.auth.getFrob
- flickr.auth.getFullToken
- flickr.auth.getToken
contacts
- flickr.contacts.getPublicList
people
- flickr.people.getUploadStatus
photos
- flickr.photos.addTags
- flickr.photos.delete
- flickr.photos.getCounts
- flickr.photos.getInfo
- flickr.photos.getPerms
- flickr.photos.getSizes
- flickr.photos.removeTag
- flickr.photos.setTags
photosets
- flickr.photosets.getList
tags
- flickr.tags.getListPhoto
test
- flickr.test.echo
Second, if you would like a key to use the API or have any questions, shoot an email to zooomrapi@bbridgetech.com. I have also recompiled Steve Cohen’s awesome jUploadr upload utility to be used with Zooomr based on the above info. You can pick them up here.
Lastly, There are many new innovations that are well underway that I’m pushing to get out by next month. You’ll see some of them pop-though ever so subtly — but most of it is so new that I can’t just fit it into the old system.
Sorry for the long post, but I just wanted to say that there is a lot going on.
Thanks,
Kristopher Tate


Good to see some one else going for open shared non-vendor specific api’s.
You can see our current flickr api support here http://23hq.com/doc/api/.
Mail me if you want to collaborate on getting 3rd party developers focus on this.
Now that you have a handle on the flickr API, how about implementing an import from flickr to zooomr. I’d gladly move my photos here if I didn’t have to upload them all over again and retag them.
Would you like to make zooomr more of an official option in jUploadr?
I can’t promise 1.0, but I can certainly make it in 1.1.
is there a linux version of juploadr? i’d love to have it and share it among a bunch of users…
a zooomr’d version of juploadr, i mean. there are only mac and win32 versions at
http://beta.zooomr.com/tools/juploadr/
thanks,
ash
[…] Zooomr scores in almost of all the departments from my own personal experiences. It’s simplicity is it’s biggest advantage but at the same time, sophistication is found within the simplicity. Don’t get me? Try Zooomr out, you’ll see what I mean! Zooomr’s design is the best example for what I mean, the design is simple but definitely sleek and attractive. It does not have the Plain-jane looks of Flickr but at the same time does not overwhelm you. Another thing notable is Zooomr’s learning curve. Simply put, it has none. That darn easy! There are tons of other brilliant features which make Zooomr stand out like a bright ball of determined fire - Flickr’s API, Lightbox, Inspector, Localization, P-2-P Association (Person to Photo, not the software!), Zooomrtation and tons more that I can’t find the space to fit! Ofcourse, if speed is your criteria, Zooomr cannot be touched. […]
I can not get juploadr for zooomr, the link is broken. Anyone knows a mirror or where can I get it? I think it is a very needed tool
Thanx for the great work.
I’ve been looking hard for juploadr for zooomr as well. If anyone knows where we can get it… that would be very helpful.
Thanks
Just to give this some more weight: I’d like to get my hands on that juploadr version, too…
Me too
For all of you wanting to get jUploadr, go to the Sourceforge site and download it, it appears as if the main developer is fully supporting this as well.
Scratch that last comment, my bad
[…] To go with the move I’ve also made a new release, 2.0.4 which contains methods for supporting adding/editing comments on photos and photosets. There is also experimental support for 23HQ and Zooomr. my tags: Possible related posts… 16metres and climbingWhidbey Community Technology Preview - Part IAbout Me/Contact DetailsFlickr.Net API Library - 2.0.1 […]
Is the email address (zooomrapi@bbridgetech.com) still the correct way to request keys? I’ve sent a couple emails, but am wondering if that got through any spam filters, etc….
I’m writing a Picture Post (upload) plugin for WLW and would like to add Zooomr support…
Thanks,
Greg
Still waiting patiently for API Key
emailed zooomrapi@bbridgetech.com to ask on Dec. 6th. My photos have extensive XMP/IPTC written into them from iView Mediapro. Zooomr isn’t reading that on upload. I don’t want to tag them again by hand and duplicate my effort. I can do this work very simply if I have API access.
Well yeah, there seems to be a problem to get Zooomr api keys, several developers report not being able to get one through this method. I wish to create a native uploader for windows (not java) for my personal use and, if I get it right, make available to everyone. But I just don’t have acces to the api yet.
There any update on getting Zooomr keys? How do we get keys? Been hoping for a couple months to write a Windows Live Writer Plugin for Zooomr, but with no key, no joy. (Actually I have a working Plugin already and it works fine with Flickr and 23hq, but I’d really like to support Zooomr too… Just need a Key)…
Can you please provide some guidance, status, anything to let us know what’s going on related to Keys?
Thank you
Getting an API key from flickr for personal use took under 5 minutes. If only the same could be said for zooomr.
Hellooooooo? Zooomr? This is getting absolutely ridiculous! I’ve been waiting for a key for half a year now…
It’s too bad as I’d like to make use of some of the other tools out there - like the Flickr screensaver and such.
If Zooomr’s not giving out any additional API keys - is there anyone out there willing to share theirs?