• Registered: 2013-02-17
  • Posts: 25

Topic: Flickr Image Sizes

Is there any way with Flickr to use their newer image sizes between large and original.  I looked through the API but couldn't figure it out.  Let me know if this is possible, thanks.

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

Re: Flickr Image Sizes

According to this Flickr help page, there are no sizes between large and original which can be accessed by the Flickr API.

Do you have any information (links to any web pages) which reference the new sizes you refer to?

The only sizes which can currently be displayed by a Juicebox-Pro gallery are: MEDIUM, LARGE and ORIGINAL (as noted in the Flickr configuration options).

For Juicebox to be able to display any new sizes, Flickr would have to allow access to them via their API and Juicebox would have to be updated to handle them.

  • Registered: 2013-02-17
  • Posts: 25

Re: Flickr Image Sizes

I checked out the API a while back and couldn't find any other sizes.  However Flickr creates a number of different sizes such as Large 1600 and Large 2048 that can be accessed from it's interface for downloading an image, I'll copy these below.  I was wondering if there was some undocumented way to get at these, it seems like since they are creating them they would have some way. 


Small 320 (320 x 211)
Medium 500 (500 x 330)
Medium 640 (640 x 422)
Medium 800 (800 x 527)
Large 1024 (1024 x 675)
Large 1600 (1600 x 1054)
Large 2048 (2048 x 1350)
Original (4000 x 2636)

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

Re: Flickr Image Sizes

it seems like since they are creating them they would have some way

Unfortunately, this is not always the case. Not all features of Flickr are available via their API.
However, although there is no indication on the page I linked to in my post above that their API supports the Large 1600 and Large 2048 sizes, I have entered a Photo Id into the flickr.photos.getSizes Flickr API Explorer and it returns the two new sizes with size identifiers '_h' (for Large 1600) and '_k' (for Large 2048) so it looks like it might be possible to request these sizes via their API. (The current size identifiers of Medium, Large and Original are '_m', '_l' and '_o' respectively.)

Perhaps you could suggest this for a future version of Juicebox in the Feature Requests forum thread.
I do not know for sure if it is possible and whether or not the developers will incorporate it into a future version but posting there keeps all the feature requests together and ensures that they are not overlooked.

Thank you.