Well as Flickr seem to not be bringing collections to the API I’ve been looking around how people have been getting around it with their sets.
Now what I’ve found is the suggestion to use a Sets description field to insert a formatted description (for lack of a better word) that could then be used for filtering.
The example I’ve found is http://www.imagicweb.com/flickrsite/ but he doesn’t go into detail about how to limit it. and the site is in Italian so I might be losing it slightly…
The other way I’m thinking of is using a specific tag and calling that tag. But it would have to be on only one photo per set and we’d have to be able to link to the rest of the set on the next page.
Ah but we only have
# exp:eeflickr:tags_getListPhoto
# exp:eeflickr:tags_getListUserRaw
Which only give tag lists from photos/user not photos from tags.
But flickr.photos.search allows us to search via a tag. So can we get the set from a photo and link to said set…
Hmm I think I need to get some thinking going on and work out some “collection” tags and see if the search works the way i hope it works…
If anyone else reading this would like collections within the api maybe you can lend some weight to this thread…
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/yws-flickr/message/4523
and we’ll see if we ever get a reply.