New Flickr API Response Formats
Flickr just launched two new formats for responses to API queries. Both JSON and Serialized PHP Objects are now supported. I don’t think I need to mention how awesome this is but let me say: it’s really really awesome. JSON support means that querying via JavaScript in stuff like GreaseMonkey plugins will now be easier than ever. REST is great and all but parsing XML in JavaScript is not something I ever want to do again. I tried it for a while and it made me pretty unhappy. Serialized PHP is pretty cool because there’s nothing like making a call to unserialize() and suddenly having a fully-populated PHP object ready for grabbing data from.
I’ve been harassing my friend at Y! about this ever since I first played with the Flickr API and I’m glad it’s finally happened. Granted, it’s all for Yahoo! HackDay but I can still pretend it happened because I asked for it.
September 28th, 2006 Comments Off
