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Flickr contacts as OPML

Just recently I was really annoyed because although I am subscribed to my flickr feed “new pictures from contacts” I was missing so many pictures! So I contacted the support and as it turns out they only provide 5 pictures per contact in that feed. Now this sucks and pretty much and renders this aggregated feed useless to me. Subscribing to each and individual contact is a bit cumbersome. So I suggested to at least provide an OPML export for the contacts.

Ben from the flickr support was so kind to write a little service until this has been fixed. You put in your name and it uses the flickr API to generate an OPML file for you. Sweet!!

I was really positive surprised by the flickr support. Way to go, Ben! And don’t forget to open source your little tool :)

3 Responses to “Flickr contacts as OPML”

  1. Sebastian Vogelsang said, on 20. January 2007 at 20:06

    Nicht nur, dass es nur 5 Bilder pro contact sind, die feeds sind meistens auch 1-2 Tage alt……Funktioniert das mit dem opml besser???

  2. Tim said, on 26. January 2007 at 12:10

    Ich kenne mich ja nicht so gut mit Computern aus: Wie benutzt man denn OPML?

  3. tcurdt said, on 26. January 2007 at 12:23

    Ist quasi ein Exportieren der Kontakte als XML …was man dann in alle Möglichen News-Aggregator importieren kann. Spart einem das einzelne subscriben.

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