As I explained in my last post, Yahoo! claims their Firehose is a real-time streaming API and it’s not. So to make life a bit easier for app developers I wrote a python wrapper that provides a continuous blocking interface to the Flickr polling API. Effectively it emulates a streaming API by stringing together frequent requests to the flickr.photos.getRecent results. And it’s dead simple.

import PyFlickrStreamr

fs = PyFlickrStreamr('your_api_key_here', extras=['date_upload','url_m'])
for row in fs:
    print str(row['id'])+"   "+row['url_m']

You can download the package from pypi or fork the source code on github. Have fun.