Flickr Photos Notes API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Flickr Activity Photos Notes 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: Photos Notes
  description: Notes drawn on photos
paths:
  /rest/flickr.photos.notes.add:
    post:
      operationId: photosNotesAdd
      summary: Add Photo Note
      description: Adds a note (annotation) to a photo.
      tags:
      - Photos Notes
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ApiKey'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/PhotoId'
      - name: note_x
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: integer
        example: 320
      - name: note_y
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: integer
        example: 240
      - name: note_w
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: integer
        example: 100
      - name: note_h
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: integer
        example: 100
      - name: note_text
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
        example: Look at this sunset.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Note created
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Note'
              examples:
                PhotosNotesAdd200Example:
                  summary: Default photosNotesAdd 200 response
                  x-microcks-default: true
                  value:
                    id: '52345678901'
                    author: 12345678@N00
                    x: 320
                    y: 240
                    w: 100
                    h: 100
                    _content: '100'
      x-microcks-operation:
        delay: 0
        dispatcher: FALLBACK
components:
  parameters:
    PhotoId:
      name: photo_id
      in: query
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
      example: '52345678901'
    ApiKey:
      name: api_key
      in: query
      required: true
      description: Application API key.
      schema:
        type: string
      example: ab1234567890cdef1234567890abcd12
  schemas:
    Note:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          example: '52345678901'
        author:
          type: string
          example: 12345678@N00
        x:
          type: integer
          example: 320
        y:
          type: integer
          example: 240
        w:
          type: integer
          example: 100
        h:
          type: integer
          example: 100
        _content:
          type: string
          example: '100'
  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