[Canola] Howto: Larger photos in photocasts

[earth2marsh]

I was frustrated by the size of the photos in a Flickr feed... Yahoo Pipes to the rescue!

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3256/2397983965_a6913feb29_m.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/earth2marsh/2397983965/)

Using this Pipe (http://pipes.yahoo.com/earth2marsh/flickrfeedresizer), you can opt to have a Large size returned (if available) or even the Original (beware). Just tell it a size, any a tag or tags (and match any/all), a username (if you want to restrict it to a user), and run the pipe. Copy the RSS feed and paste into a photocast.

Two issues:

You'll have to edit the name that Canola gets from the feed to be something more useful
A feed is limited to 20 photos. You could clone the pipe and use the Flickr API and to return up to 500. See this other pipe (http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=oBPiFqn02xG3vmrmEpPZnA) for an example.


Hope someone finds this useful.

[handful]

Hei Earth! great use of the pipes :) I will use it myself, I was always pissed by that size :)

Thanks so much for this!

Marcelo

[KennethChristiansen]

If you had the source code, it would be one line change to request the bigger images :-) Maybe if Leo is asked nicely he will add an option.