Flickr extractors
Wandora has support for extracting information from Flickr into a topic map using the Flickr online API. Three different extractors are currently provided for extracting information from a profile, a specific photo and a Flickr group. All the extractors can be found in the File > Extract > Media menu.
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Flickr authentication
Many of the Flickr API functions used in the extractors require you to authorize Wandora to access your information. When Wandora needs to call such a function, it will check if it already has sufficient permissions from a previous call, and if not, prompt you to commence authorization. Authorization involves following a URL generated by Wandora and following instructions on the flickr website. Authentication information is stored on a per-session basis, and will be cleared whenever Wandora is closed. The information can also be manually cleared via configuration of any of the Flickr extractors. You may also store the authentication information from the current session and re-enter it later.
To access the configuration dialog, ctrl-click one of the Flickr extractors in the File > Extract menu. The Flickr authentication status window displays the username of the currently authenticated user, authentication data (token and frob) and the rights that the user has granted (as of this release, only the read permission level is used.) Clicking Clear information will remove the authentication information from memory and Validate new frob and token will attempt to validate a user-entered frob and token with the Flickr API. If the validation is successful, these will be used for the duration of the current session.
Note: clearing authentication information from Wandora does not clear it from Flickr itself.
Some of the API functions called during information extraction require read permissions. If authentication information is not stored in this session, Wandora will prompt you to authorize it to obtain the required information.
Follow the URL in the text box in your web browser, log in and follow the instructions on the flickr website. Once you see the authorization complete screen (above) you can go back to Wandora and click Complete to proceed with the extraction.
Extractors
The primary mode of operation for the Flickr extractors is to choose a topic or a set of topics in the topic map and run an extractor on those topics, effectively expanding nodes as you go. The extractors always apply to the topics that are currently in context. The current context usually consists of the currently selected topics in the GUI.
Profile extractor
The main entry point for extracting data from Flickr is the profile extractor. The profile extractor gets a list of photos owned and marked as favorites by the profile owner. If no usernames are found, it will prompt you for a comma-delimited list of users to find information for.
Flickr group extractor
The group extractor gets a list of photos in the group's photo pool. If no suitable groups are found in context, a dialog is presented to the user, in which text search can be performed to look for groups in Flickr. Skeleton information for all of the groups in the list will be created in the topic map, and full information will be retrieved for the ones the user has selected.
Flickr photo information extractor
The photo info extractor gets additional data for a photo where available, including EXIF data and the photo's description.
