OpenAPI Specification
openapi: 3.0.3
info:
title: Flickr Activity Blogs API
description: 'The Flickr API exposes the photo, group, people, place, tag, gallery, and
photoset capabilities that power flickr.com. Almost all flickr.com
functionality is reachable through a single REST-like endpoint
`https://api.flickr.com/services/rest` using a `method=flickr.{namespace}.{method}`
query parameter and `format=json&nojsoncallback=1` for JSON output.
This OpenAPI specification models a curated set of the most widely used
methods across the Flickr API''s 250+ method namespaces (activity, auth,
blogs, cameras, collections, commons, contacts, favorites, galleries,
groups, groupsDiscuss, interestingness, machinetags, panda, people, photos,
photos.geo, photos.licenses, photos.notes, photos.transform, photos.upload,
photosets, places, prefs, profile, push, reflection, stats, tags, test, urls).
Authentication is API key + OAuth 1.0a (HMAC-SHA1). Commercial use of the
API requires prior permission from Flickr.
'
version: 1.0.0
termsOfService: https://www.flickr.com/services/api/tos/
contact:
name: Flickr API Support
url: https://www.flickr.com/help/api/
license:
name: Flickr API Terms of Use
url: https://www.flickr.com/services/api/tos/
x-generated-from: documentation
x-last-validated: '2026-05-30'
servers:
- url: https://api.flickr.com/services
description: Flickr REST API
- url: https://up.flickr.com/services
description: Flickr Upload endpoint
security:
- ApiKeyAuth: []
- OAuth1:
- read
- write
- delete
tags:
- name: Blogs
description: Configured blogs and posting to them
paths:
/rest/flickr.blogs.getList:
get:
operationId: blogsGetList
summary: Get Configured Blogs
description: Returns a list of Flickr-supported blogging services the calling user has configured.
tags:
- Blogs
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/ApiKey'
- name: service
in: query
description: Optional service ID filter.
schema:
type: string
example: blogger
responses:
'200':
description: Configured blogs
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/BlogList'
examples:
BlogsGetList200Example:
summary: Default blogsGetList 200 response
x-microcks-default: true
value:
blog:
- id: '52345678901'
name: Bay Area Photographers
service: blogger
url: https://www.flickr.com/galleries/12345678@N00/72157712345/
x-microcks-operation:
delay: 0
dispatcher: FALLBACK
components:
schemas:
BlogList:
type: object
properties:
blog:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Blog'
Blog:
type: object
properties:
id:
type: string
example: '52345678901'
name:
type: string
example: Bay Area Photographers
service:
type: string
example: blogger
url:
type: string
format: uri
example: https://www.flickr.com/galleries/12345678@N00/72157712345/
parameters:
ApiKey:
name: api_key
in: query
required: true
description: Application API key.
schema:
type: string
example: ab1234567890cdef1234567890abcd12
securitySchemes:
ApiKeyAuth:
type: apiKey
in: query
name: api_key
description: Application API key for non-authenticated and read-only public requests.
OAuth1:
type: oauth2
description: 'Flickr uses OAuth 1.0a (HMAC-SHA1). The OpenAPI 3 schema cannot model
OAuth 1.0a directly, so this entry approximates the flow. Token URLs:
- Request token: https://www.flickr.com/services/oauth/request_token
- Authorize: https://www.flickr.com/services/oauth/authorize
- Access token: https://www.flickr.com/services/oauth/access_token
'
flows:
authorizationCode:
authorizationUrl: https://www.flickr.com/services/oauth/authorize
tokenUrl: https://www.flickr.com/services/oauth/access_token
scopes:
read: Read access to private content owned by the user
write: Modify content owned by the user
delete: Delete content owned by the user