Yesterday I figured out how to connect to Flickr and Google through their Java APIs. That was fun. I had been interested in doing this for a while, and now the opportunity came up in a Java class I’m taking. We’ll be developing a little tool that I’ll probably be talking more about in the coming weeks. <\/p>\n
Google’s API<\/a> is surprisingly easy to use. It took me about an hour to really understand the details…which is a good amount of time to have spent on something like that. Flickr’s API, meanwhile, is a little harder to grasp. This is because there’s so much you can do with it. The true Java wrapper for Flickr, flickrj<\/a>, proved to be a little over my head for the moment, so I connected directly using Java’s URL class and Flickr’s REST protocol. Man, is that easy to do. I like the idea of connecting to a source via REST, and when I find the time I’ll surely build some things to become more comfortable with it. I’ll probably stick with PHP, though, since I find it a lot easier to deal with than Java, and it’s really quick and easy to get stuff up and running on the web. <\/p>\n Anyway, enough technogeekery. Back to work…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday I figured out how to connect to Flickr and Google through their Java APIs. That was fun. I had been interested in doing this for a while, and now the opportunity came up in a Java class I’m taking. We’ll be developing a little tool that I’ll probably be talking more about in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t