OpenAPI Specification
openapi: 3.0.3
info:
title: Flickr Activity Photos Transform 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 Transform
description: Rotate photos server-side
paths:
/rest/flickr.photos.transform.rotate:
post:
operationId: photosTransformRotate
summary: Rotate Photo
description: Rotates a photo 90, 180, or 270 degrees.
tags:
- Photos Transform
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/ApiKey'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/PhotoId'
- name: degrees
in: query
required: true
schema:
type: integer
enum:
- 90
- 180
- 270
example: 90
responses:
'200':
description: Rotated
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/SuccessResponse'
examples:
PhotosTransformRotate200Example:
summary: Default photosTransformRotate 200 response
x-microcks-default: true
value:
stat: ok
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:
SuccessResponse:
type: object
properties:
stat:
type: string
example: ok
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