flickr gadget for google wave
So I got an invite to Google Wave last week. It was pretty fun to play around with the latest and greatest toy from google, but the novelty quickly wore off. After everyone realized they were using it like a chatroom + wiki, I think we all got bored. When I was first invited, everyone was adding and editing waves… now no one I know is still using it.
ANYWAYS… during the first few hours of being excited about Google Wave, I decided to write a “Gadget” which would embed a Flickr user’s latest images into a Wave. It was super easy to write. Gadgets are basically JavaScript and HTML wrapped in some XML. So whipping up a Rails app that fetched Flickr images via the Flickr API and rendered some HTML to display them was cake. I deployed the Rails app/Gadget to heroku… check it out here: http://flickr-wave.heroku.com/
There seems to be some bugs, for some reason after embedding the Gadget and reloading the wave SOMETIMES it won’t load the Gadget. I don’t know why… and I probably won’t worry about fixing it unless I start getting excited about Google Wave again. Ohh well, check out the source here: http://github.com/benjaminleesmith/Flickr-Wave
November 3rd, 2009 at 1:53 am
Made a post on your gadget
It’s nice!
December 1st, 2009 at 7:15 pm
having some problems with the specific user one. is it the yahoo user name i need?
December 2nd, 2009 at 9:09 pm
If you use “user=” then you need the flickr username, if you use “user_id=” then you need flickr’s internal user_id. I ran into some problems when trying to specify certain usernames, so that’s where the user_id comes into play and should definitely work.
Finding the user id isn’t super straight forward… the easiest way I found to do it was to look at the RSS feed urls at the bottom of the photostream page. In all the rss feed urls, Flickr appears to use the user_id instead of username. So look at the rss url and grab the id from there.