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clickykbd   December 06, 2009, 10:34 AM

Since I had to hunt around for this, here is the link to the API docs:

http://www.23hq.com/doc/api/

Really didn't see that anywhere... got lucky with /services/api being a redirect. And low and behold, they've intentionally mirrored the structure, methods, and responses of flickr's API. More compatible, more developers!

Hella Nice.

 
David Wilkinson   December 06, 2009, 12:58 PM

Yes, I was looking at that earlier. I'll have play later, but not enough spare time at the moment. Maybe over the holiday...

 
clickykbd   December 06, 2009, 05:23 PM

I wonder how "portable" your magical "set organizer" would be. :-)

 
David Wilkinson   December 06, 2009, 05:27 PM

Hmm, there's a thought...

 
clickykbd   December 07, 2009, 01:39 AM

crazy thought... could the open source flickr uploader be modified to be a 23 uploader? hmmm.

 
striatic   December 07, 2009, 03:32 AM

there's already a standalone uploader for 23 [and other services] called picturesync.

 
clickykbd   December 07, 2009, 06:56 AM

it was more of a "would be fun to" thought... regardless of if viable other options exist... mostly because it is licensed to allow it, and the API here potentially would make it easy (by design).

 
clickykbd   December 11, 2009, 07:47 PM

The first existing apps I've encountered. He just posted his browser search enhancement to the Ideas forum, but has several others tools at this page too:

http://23tools.ikotikashi.de/

by IkoTikashi :-)

Actually, the GeoTagger helper is probably the one Striatic referenced earlier... just hadn't needed it yet so didn't encounter the rest of these.

 
clickykbd   December 11, 2009, 08:05 PM

The graph of publicly visible photo counts on 23 is kinda interesting:
http://23tools.ikotikashi.de/statsadelic/

 
Brenda Anderson   December 12, 2009, 07:43 PM

Surely those numbers are the publicly visible photos *added* during the particular month, and not a running total. I wouldn't expect 10s of thousands of photos to disappear from month to month.

 
clickykbd   December 12, 2009, 10:08 PM

Well just taking a "rough" estimate of public photos per day by glancing at the "just in everywhere" (since my last upload more than 12 hours ago). There haven't even been 90 images yet. So being generous let's say @200 images a day, would put them near 6000 images a month, no where close to the 31,000 total indicated for last month. So there is a chance it might represent the real total. But you are right, I don't see how they would loose thousands per month at times?

We'd have to ask Iko about the data source, or the devs.

 
Brenda Anderson   December 12, 2009, 10:13 PM

Yes.

One thing to keep in mind too, is that "just in" only ever shows the most recent photo for each account that has uploaded. So if someone uploads 20 photos, the just in only shows one photo for them.

This is very easy to figure out for me, because the "just in" for New Zealand shows my latest photo as the first one ever since I joined. And the last one on the second row was uploaded in April 2008. And the positions have never changed.... except for the very latest which is always mine. :)

 
Gwenlyn   December 12, 2009, 10:32 PM

So being generous let's say @200 images a day, would put them near 6000 images a month, no where close to the 31,000 total indicated for last month.

I just picked one of my photos, and queried 23's API for public images that were uploaded during the 30 days preceding it. The reported total is 28030.

(Edited to add: out of curiosity I queried flickr for the exact same time frame. The answer was ~1500 times larger.)

 
clickykbd   December 12, 2009, 10:41 PM

Ahh. Yeah I hadn't realized just-in was only displaying one per person. I had only really uploaded in batches of 1 so I hadn't noticed that with my own images.

 
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