Tagging using the Flickr API

My goal for the day was to geotag the mongage images I uploaded last week. Luckily each image title contains the latitude and longitude of the camera so I extracted the data from the title and added it back in the image tags.

Here is what I did:

1. Got a Flickr API key and authentication code from the Flickr services website.
2. Installed Beej’s Python Flickr API.
   1. Downloaded and extracted archive.
   2. Called python setup.py build.
   3. Called python setup.py install.
   4. Edited flickrapi.py to properly call firefox from the Windows command line (added double quotes around the URL in validateFrob).
3. Wrote a python script to extract the title, parse it, and upload the new tags (I started with the test script Beej provides).
   1. It took a while to realize I needed to include both the method and auth_token parameters for the photo.setLocation and photo.addTags methods.

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