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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

contacts

people

photos

photosets

tags

test

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

20 Comments

  1. Thomas Madsen-Mygdal said on 27 Mar 2006 at 5:01 pm:

    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.

  2. Tom said on 28 Mar 2006 at 9:42 pm:

    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.

  3. scohen said on 31 Mar 2006 at 9:29 am:

    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.

  4. ash said on 5 Apr 2006 at 2:14 am:

    is there a linux version of juploadr? i’d love to have it and share it among a bunch of users…

  5. ash said on 5 Apr 2006 at 2:15 am:

    a zooomr’d version of juploadr, i mean. there are only mac and win32 versions at

    http://beta.zooomr.com/tools/juploadr/

    thanks,
    ash

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  7. Kurazaybo said on 2 Jun 2006 at 12:22 pm:

    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.

  8. Kenny said on 19 Jul 2006 at 11:43 pm:

    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

  9. herrmueller said on 20 Jul 2006 at 5:48 am:

    Just to give this some more weight: I’d like to get my hands on that juploadr version, too…

  10. BrianH said on 21 Jul 2006 at 11:10 am:

    Me too

  11. James Deville said on 26 Jul 2006 at 3:14 am:

    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.

  12. James Deville said on 26 Jul 2006 at 3:23 am:

    Scratch that last comment, my bad

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  14. Greg said on 11 Nov 2006 at 11:59 am:

    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

  15. Paul S. said on 14 Dec 2006 at 10:43 am:

    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.

  16. Welbach said on 5 Jan 2007 at 7:23 pm:

    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.

  17. Greg said on 16 Jan 2007 at 7:07 am:

    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

  18. anon said on 21 Jan 2007 at 1:08 pm:

    Getting an API key from flickr for personal use took under 5 minutes. If only the same could be said for zooomr.

  19. herrmueller said on 23 Jan 2007 at 1:09 am:

    Hellooooooo? Zooomr? This is getting absolutely ridiculous! I’ve been waiting for a key for half a year now…

  20. Anon said on 5 Feb 2007 at 10:58 pm:

    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?

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