NAME

Flickr::Upload - Upload images to flickr.com

SYNOPSIS

        use LWP::UserAgent;
        use Flickr::Upload qw(upload);

        my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
        upload(
                $ua,
                'photo' => '/tmp/image.jpg',
                'email' => 'self@example.com',
                'password' => 'pr1vat3',
                'tags' => 'me myself eye',
                'is_public' => 1,
                'is_friend' => 1,
                'is_family' => 1
        ) or die "Failed to upload /tmp/image.jpg";

DESCRIPTION

Upload an image to flickr.com.

FUNCTIONS

upload

        my $photoid = upload(
                $ua,
                'photo' => '/tmp/image.jpg',
                'email' => 'self@example.com',
                'password' => 'pr1vat3',
                'tags' => 'me myself eye',
                'is_public' => 1,
                'is_friend' => 1,
                'is_family' => 1
        );

Taking a LWP::UserAgent as an argument ($ua), this is basically a direct interface to the Flickr Photo Upload API. Required parameters are photo, email, and password. uri may be provided if you don't want to use the default, http://www.flickr.com/tools/uploader_go.gne (i.e. you have a custom server running somewhere that supports the API).

Returns the resulting identifier of the uploaded photo on success, undef on failure. According to the API documentation, after an upload the user should be directed to the page http://www.flickr.com/tools/uploader_edit.gne?ids=$photoid.

make_upload_request

        my $req = make_upload_request(
                'email' => 'self@example.com',
                'password' => 'pr1vat3',
                'tags' => 'me myself eye',
                'is_public' => 1,
                'is_friend' => 1,
                'is_family' => 1
        );
        $req->header( 'X-Greetz' => 'hi cal' );
        my $resp = $ua->request( $req );

Creates an HTTP::Request object loaded with all the flick upload parameters.

Takes all the same parameters as upload, except that the photo argument isn't required. This in intended so that the caller can include it by messing directly with the HTTP content (via $DYNAMIC_FILE_UPLOAD or the HTTP::Message class, among other things).

Returns a standard HTTP::Response POST object. The caller can manually do the upload or just call the upload_request function.

upload_request

        my $photoid = upload_request( $ua, $request );

Taking LWP::UserAgent and HTTP::Request objects as arguments, this executes the request and processes the result as a flickr upload. It's assumed that the request looks a lot like something created with make_upload_request.

Returns the resulting identifier of the uploaded photo on success, undef on failure. According to the API documentation, after an upload the user should be directed to the page http://www.flickr.com/tools/uploader_edit.gne?ids=$photoid.

BUGS

Asynchronous uploading isn't supported. Async, quite frankly, doesn't make much sense in this API. Anyone who can write a perl script to get an image upload going but is unable to keep track of whether or not it finished without polling a web server has got major problems.

SEE ALSO

http://flickr.com/services/api/.

AUTHOR

Christophe Beauregard, cpb@cpan.org

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This module is not an official Flickr.com (or Ludicorp) service.

Copyright (C) 2004 by Christophe Beauregard

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.3 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.