HOWTO: Searching Flickr

Flickr is well known both as a full-featured image storage system, and one of the web applications that got everyone talking about Web 2.0 and Ajax.

In the following section we'll make use of the powerful Flickr API to search for a list of photos that have a particular tag on them. We'll also demonstrate how to show and hide parts of the application based on its state, as well as how to animate the display when these states change.

(If you want to get the completed source code, it's available here.)

Tutorial reviewed 2006-12-06, by MB.