OpenAPI Specification
openapi: 3.0.3
info:
title: Flickr Activity Test 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: Test
description: Echo, login, and null test methods
paths:
/rest/flickr.test.echo:
get:
operationId: testEcho
summary: Echo Test Parameters
description: Echoes the parameters back to the caller as a test of connectivity and authentication.
tags:
- Test
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/ApiKey'
responses:
'200':
description: Echo response
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/EchoResponse'
examples:
TestEcho200Example:
summary: Default testEcho 200 response
x-microcks-default: true
value: {}
x-microcks-operation:
delay: 0
dispatcher: FALLBACK
/rest/flickr.test.login:
get:
operationId: testLogin
summary: Test Authentication
description: Returns information about the calling authenticated user.
tags:
- Test
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/ApiKey'
responses:
'200':
description: Logged-in user
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/LoginInfo'
examples:
TestLogin200Example:
summary: Default testLogin 200 response
x-microcks-default: true
value:
user:
id: '52345678901'
username:
_content: '100'
path_alias: shutterbug
x-microcks-operation:
delay: 0
dispatcher: FALLBACK
components:
schemas:
EchoResponse:
type: object
additionalProperties: true
LoginInfo:
type: object
properties:
user:
type: object
properties:
id:
type: string
example: '52345678901'
username:
type: object
properties:
_content:
type: string
example: '100'
path_alias:
type: string
example: shutterbug
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