• Registered: 2012-11-02
  • Posts: 14

Topic: Flickr forcing Yahoo login

Hello, the news as of yesterday is Yahoo is now removing the Google and Facebook login for Flickr. While this may not seem like a big deal it is to some people.

Are there any plans to integrate a different online photo service besides Flickr? Can some Google service be added?

Thanks

  • Registered: 2012-04-24
  • Posts: 5,924

Re: Flickr forcing Yahoo login

As far as I am aware, there are no plans to integrate any other online photo service.
You could, however, pull in and display images from a custom data source (such as a Picasa Web Album, for example) by using a server-side script to dynamically construct an XML file on-the-fly (as long as your custom data source allows you to fetch the image URLs through an API).
Please see this FAQ:
Can Juicebox handle a custom data source, for example RSS or Instagram?

  • Registered: 2012-11-02
  • Posts: 14

Re: Flickr forcing Yahoo login

What is the reason the only online gallery is Flickr? Just curious since there are many other options.

Thanks for your quick reply.

  • Registered: 2012-04-24
  • Posts: 5,924

Re: Flickr forcing Yahoo login

I guess it's likely to be because it's the most popular and widely known/used online photo service. Also, Flickr has an extensive and flexible API which allows Juicebox to query Flickr with many different configuration options (so that, for example, sets and tags can be used).