/Flickr-Search

A small project that uses Flickr API to search images based on the keyword.

Flickr-Search

A small project that uses Flickr API to search images based on the keyword.

Pre-requisite

  • Clone the repo and run Flickr-Search-Project.xcodeproj
  • No 3rd party Libraries Used.
  • Create a Flickr API key and replace in line number 124 flickrKey with your own key in Flickr.swift

Requirements

  • Deployment target of your App is >= iOS 10.0
  • XCode 9.3 or later
  • Swift 4.0

Flickr API Documentation

Images are retrieved by hitting the Flickr API.

  • Search Path:
https://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.photos.search&api_key=YOUR_FLICKR_API_KEY&per_page=25&format=json&nojsoncallback=1&safe_search=1&text=KEYWORD

Increase the per_page count to download more photos.

  • Response includes an array of photo objects, each represented as:
{
    "id": "23451156376",
    "owner": "28017113@N08",
    "secret": "8983a8ebc7",
    "server": "578",
    "farm": 1,
    "title": "Merry Christmas!",
    "ispublic": 1,
    "isfriend": 0,
    "isfamily": 0
}

Other Features that can be integrated in this project:

  • Speech to text conversion in the Search bar
  • Using some AI model, find images based on an image provided in the search bar instead of text.
  • Caching of images
  • Infinite Scrolling
  • Sharing of images with friends on Social Media Platforms