Is it possible to integrate Flickr API?

[SkippyHo]

Hello,

Is it possible to integrate Flickr API instead of Imgur?

Thanks a lot!!

[agusmakmun]

Sounds like a great idea @SkippyHo. Can you submit a pull request?

[some1ataplace]

Maybe try this. I did not test this but maybe it can help someone.

1. Install the python-flickrapi library by running pip install flickrapi in your terminal.

2. In your Django project's settings.py file, add the following settings:

FLICKR_API_KEY = 'your_api_key_here'
FLICKR_API_SECRET = 'your_api_secret_here'

3. In your Django project's urls.py file, add a URL pattern to handle the image upload:

from django.conf.urls import url
from markdownx import urls as markdownx

urlpatterns = [
    # your other URL patterns here
    url(r'^markdownx/flickr/$', 'your_app.views.flickr_upload', name='markdownx_flickr_upload'),
    url(r'^markdownx/', include(markdownx)),
]

4. In your Django app's views.py file, define a view to handle the image upload:

from django.http import HttpResponse
from flickrapi import FlickrAPI
from markdownx.utils import markdownify

def flickr_upload(request):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        # get the image data from the request
        image_data = request.FILES['image']

        # authenticate with Flickr
        flickr = FlickrAPI(settings.FLICKR_API_KEY, settings.FLICKR_API_SECRET, format='etree')
        (token, frob) = flickr.get_token_part_one(perms='write')
        if not token:
            raise Exception

5. Redirect the user to Flickr's authentication page to authorize your app to upload images:

auth_url = flickr.auth_url(perms='write')
return HttpResponseRedirect(auth_url)

6. After the user has authorized your app, retrieve the access token and secret:

flickr.get_token_part_two((token, frob))
access_token = flickr.token_cache.token.token
access_secret = flickr.token_cache.token.token_secret

7. Upload the image to Flickr using the access token and secret:

response = flickr.upload(filename=image_data.name, fileobj=image_data, title='My Image', description='Uploaded with django-markdown-editor', auth_token=access_token, auth_secret=access_secret)
photo_id = response.find('photoid').text

8. Finally, return the URL of the uploaded image to the markdown editor:

image_url = flickr.photos_getSizes(photo_id=photo_id)[0].find('source').attrib['url']
return HttpResponse(markdownify('![My Image]({})'.format(image_url)))