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Flickr Photo Search API Documentation

GET https://scrappa.co/api/flickr/search?text=mountain+sunrise&per_page=3

Search public Flickr photos by free text with pagination. Each result carries the photo id, owner, title, description, tags (list of strings), view count, dates (ISO 8601, UTC), license (id and name), media type, the photopage URL and a thumbnail image URL. Sorting, tag, user, group, license, safe-search and content-type filters are supported. A valid empty result (no matches) is a successful response.

Flickr Photo Search API Documentation 1 credit/request

Endpoint

Request preview
GET
https://scrappa.co/api/flickr/search?text=mountain+sunrise&per_page=3
Auth header
x-api-key
Cost
1 credit/request
text = mountain sunrise
Response preview
200 OK
{
    "success": true,
    "data": {
        "page": 1,
        "pages": 193217,
        "per_page": 3,
        "total": 579651,
        "has_more": true,
        "results": [
            {
                "id": "55586741331",
                "owner": "8013880@N06",
                "title": "Andorra rural: La Massana, Vall nord, Andorra",
                "description": "Cortals de Sispony, La Massana, Vall nord, Andorra, Pyrenees",
...

Parameters

Start with the required fields, then add optional filters only when your use case needs them.

Runnable path

1 required parameter needed before sending a request.

9 optional filters available.

text string Required

Free-text search query. Example: mountain sunrise.

Example value mountain sunrise
page integer Optional

1-based page number. Defaults to 1.

Example value 1
per_page integer Optional

Results per page (1-500). Defaults to 10.

Example value 3
sort string Optional

relevance, date-posted-desc or interestingness-desc.

Example value relevance
tags string Optional

Comma-separated tag filter.

Example value example
user_id string Optional

Limit results to one Flickr NSID (e.g. 135660584@N08).

Example value 1234567890
group_id string Optional

Limit results to one Flickr group NSID.

Example value 1234567890
license string Optional

License filter (0-9).

Example value example
content_type integer Optional

1 = photos, 2 = screenshots, 3 = other, 7 = all.

Example value 10

Request Examples

PHP
<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
    CURLOPT_URL => "https://scrappa.co/api/flickr/search?text=mountain+sunrise&per_page=3",
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
    CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
    CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
    CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
    CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
        "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY_HERE"
    ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
    echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
    echo $response;
}
PHP
<?php

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Http;

$response = Http::timeout(30)
    ->withHeaders(['x-api-key' => 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE'])
    ->get('https://scrappa.co/api/flickr/search?text=mountain+sunrise&per_page=3');

if ($response->successful()) {
    echo $response->body();
} else {
    echo "Error: " . $response->status();
}
JavaScript
const options = {
    method: 'GET',
    headers: {
        'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE'
    }
};

fetch('https://scrappa.co/api/flickr/search?text=mountain+sunrise&per_page=3', options)
    .then(response => {
        if (!response.ok) {
            throw new Error(`HTTP error! status: ${response.status}`);
        }
        return response.text();
    })
    .then(data => console.log(data))
    .catch(error => console.error('Error:', error));
JavaScript
const axios = require('axios');

const options = {
    method: 'GET',
    url: 'https://scrappa.co/api/flickr/search?text=mountain+sunrise&per_page=3',
    headers: {
        x-api-key: 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE',
    }
};

try {
    const response = await axios(options);
    console.log(response.data);
} catch (error) {
    console.error('Error:', error.message);
}
Ruby
require 'net/http'
require 'uri'

uri = URI.parse("https://scrappa.co/api/flickr/search?text=mountain+sunrise&per_page=3")
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = uri.scheme == 'https'

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri)
request['x-api-key'] = 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE'

begin
    response = http.request(request)
    puts response.body
rescue => e
    puts "Error: #{e.message}"
end
Python
import http.client
import json

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("scrappa.co")

headers = {
    'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE',
}

try:
    conn.request("GET", "/api/flickr/search?text=mountain+sunrise&per_page=3", headers=headers)
    res = conn.getresponse()
    data = res.read()
    print(data.decode("utf-8"))
except Exception as e:
    print(f"Error: {e}")
finally:
    conn.close()
Python
import requests

headers = {
    'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE',
}

try:
    response = requests.get('https://scrappa.co/api/flickr/search?text=mountain+sunrise&per_page=3', headers=headers)
    response.raise_for_status()
    print(response.text)
except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
    print(f"Error: {e}")
Java
import okhttp3.OkHttpClient;
import okhttp3.Request;
import okhttp3.Response;
import java.io.IOException;

public class ApiExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();

        Request request = new Request.Builder()
            .url("https://scrappa.co/api/flickr/search?text=mountain+sunrise&per_page=3")
        .addHeader("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY_HERE")
            .build();

        try (Response response = client.newCall(request).execute()) {
            if (response.isSuccessful()) {
                System.out.println(response.body().string());
            } else {
                System.out.println("Error: " + response.code());
            }
        } catch (IOException e) {
            System.out.println("Error: " + e.getMessage());
        }
    }
}
Go
package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "net/http"
    "io/ioutil"
)

func main() {
    client := &http.Client{}
    req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://scrappa.co/api/flickr/search?text=mountain+sunrise&per_page=3", nil)
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println("Error creating request:", err)
        return
    }
    req.Header.Set("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY_HERE")

    resp, err := client.Do(req)
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println("Error making request:", err)
        return
    }
    defer resp.Body.Close()

    body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println("Error reading response:", err)
        return
    }

    fmt.Println(string(body))
}
Terminal
#!/bin/bash

curl -X GET \
    -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY_HERE" \
    "https://scrappa.co/api/flickr/search?text=mountain+sunrise&per_page=3"
C#
using System;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

class Program
{
    static async Task Main()
    {
        using var client = new HttpClient();
        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY_HERE");

        try
        {
            var response = await client.SendAsync(new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Get, "https://scrappa.co/api/flickr/search?text=mountain+sunrise&per_page=3"));
            var content = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
            Console.WriteLine(content);
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            Console.WriteLine($"Error: {ex.Message}");
        }
    }
}
TypeScript
import axios from 'axios';

async function run(): Promise<void> {
    try {
        const response = await axios({
            method: 'GET',
            url: 'https://scrappa.co/api/flickr/search?text=mountain+sunrise&per_page=3',
            headers: {
        'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE',
            },
        });

        console.log(response.data);
    } catch (error) {
        console.error('Error:', error);
    }
}

void run();
RUST
use reqwest::Client;

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    let client = Client::new();

    let response = client
        .get("https://scrappa.co/api/flickr/search?text=mountain+sunrise&per_page=3")
        .header("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY_HERE")
        .send()
        .await?;

    println!("{}", response.text().await?);

    Ok(())
}

Response Schema

Example response fields are illustrative; inspect the JSON before integrating.

Example response fields

Scan these fields before integrating.

success data meta
JSON Response
200 OK
{
    "success": true,
    "data": {
        "page": 1,
        "pages": 193217,
        "per_page": 3,
        "total": 579651,
        "has_more": true,
        "results": [
            {
                "id": "55586741331",
                "owner": "8013880@N06",
                "title": "Andorra rural: La Massana, Vall nord, Andorra",
                "description": "Cortals de Sispony, La Massana, Vall nord, Andorra, Pyrenees",
                "tags": [
                    "lamassanaparroquia",
                    "canoneos5dmarkiii"
                ],
                "views": 9,
                "date_taken": "2016-04-07T11:36:45Z",
                "date_upload": "2026-10-13T11:48:29Z",
                "license": 0,
                "license_name": "All Rights Reserved",
                "media": "photo",
                "owner_name": "lutzmeyer",
                "url": "https://www.flickr.com/photos/8013880@N06/55586741331",
                "image_url": "https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55586741331_5afa1c0895_t.jpg"
            }
        ]
    },
    "meta": {
        "endpoint_family": "search",
        "billable": true
    }
}

Errors

Handle these documented responses before retrying or showing customer-facing failures.

422

Validation Error

A public parameter or range is invalid. This response is not billable.

{
    "errors": {
        "text": [
            "The text field is required."
        ]
    },
    "message": "The request validation failed"
}
503

Upstream Unavailable

The Flickr API returned a failure (stat:fail) or was unreachable. This response is not billable.

{
    "meta": {
        "billable": false,
        "retryable": true,
        "endpoint_family": "search"
    },
    "error": {
        "code": "UPSTREAM_UNAVAILABLE",
        "message": "The Flickr API is temporarily unavailable. Please retry."
    },
    "success": false
}

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