jquery.ui.flickr.rss
Flickr RSS jQuery Plugin
The Flickr RSS jQuery plugin makes it easy to retrieve RSS information from Flickr and display it on a page using all client side code. The plugin makes a request to Flickr by way of JSONP, by default applies a template to the retrieved content, then injects the content into the context element.
Download The Plugin
Getting Started
- Make sure you have jQuery installed and working.
- Download the plugin and place it in your scripts directory.
- Include the plugin script and start using it.
- See examples below.
Examples
Example 1
Populate an element with 5 of a user’s photos.
<div id="myUserPhotos" />$(function(){
$("#myUserPhotos").flickrRss({username: "61767910@N06", limit: 5});
});Example 2
Populate all elements of a specific class with the user’s photos by tag parameters.
<div class="userPhotos" flickr-username="61767910@N06" flickr-limit="5" />$(function(){
$(".userPhotos").flickrRss();
});API Options
| Option | Attribute Equivalent | Description |
|---|---|---|
| username | flickr-username | (Required) The Flickr username from which to pull the photos. |
| template | flickr-template | The template string which will be used to transform each entity. Default is $.fn.flickrRss.defaultTemplate. |
| context | n/a – uses current $this | The content target or content element to be populated. Default is null. |
| offset | flickr-offset | The zero based starting offset to be used when retrieving photos. Default is 0. |
| limit | flickr-limit | The maximum count or limit of photos to retrieve. Default is 25. |
| url | flickr-url | The url used to retrieve photos. Default is http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne. |
| callback | n/a | The callback function to be use as an override when retrieving photos. Default is null, internal template engine is used. |
May 23rd, 2011 at 11:19 pm
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http://idgettr.com/