Scripting Flickr with Python and REST (O'Reilly)
Flickr probably needs no introduction for readers of this column. It's a hugely popular social-network site owned by Yahoo, focusing on sharing of photographs. It embodies most of the the current web buzzwords, including tagging, web feeds, AJAX, and accessibility to scripts. Flickr provides a set of HTTP-based APIs for accessing features both as a publisher and as a viewer of pictures. You get to choose between XML-RPC, REST (simple XML over HTTP), or SOAP, and the available functions cover every corner of the core Flickr service. In this article I'll look at some Python libraries for integrating with Flickr (all code tested with Python 2.4.2)."