Flickr Scraper

Extract photo streams, album data, EXIF metadata, and Creative Commons licensing info from Flickr galleries. Built on spider-browser .

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target
flickr.com: success rate
99.9%: latency
~4ms

POST /fetch/flickr.com/

return_format

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/flickr.com/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'

200 OK · cache hit · response shape

{
  "url": "https://flickr.com/",
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "photo_title": "string",
    "photographer": "string",
    "views": "string",
    "favorites": "string",
    "license": "string",
    "tags": "string",
    "exif_data": "string",
    "date_taken": "string"
  }
}

# Flickr Scraper

**Photo title**: string
**Photographer**: string
**Views**: string
**Favorites**: string
**License**: string
**Tags**: string
**EXIF data**: string
**Date taken**: string

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

Structured JSON from flickr.com with a single POST. AI-resolved selectors, cached on the first call.

flickr-scraper.ts

import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=street+photography");
await page.content();

const data = await page.extractFields({
  title: ".photo-list-photo-title",
  photographer: ".photo-list-photo-owner",
  image: { selector: ".photo-list-photo-view img", attribute: "src" },
  link: { selector: ".photo-list-photo-view a", attribute: "href" },
});

console.log(data);
await spider.close();

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/flickr.com/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'

import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/flickr.com/",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={"return_format": "json"},
)
print(resp.json())

const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/flickr.com/", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({ return_format: "json" }),
});
const data = await resp.json();
console.log(data);