Flickr User Token Generator

If you're creating a web app that needs to automatically authenticate with Flickr, without any user intervention, you'll need to suppy an API key, secret and user token.

Usually, the user token is generated creating a request to Flickr, sending the user across to the site for them to authenticate and them returning to the site.

If you only want to work with one user, account, you can store the token (in your web.config for example) and reuse it.

This script allows you to connect to enter your application details, takes you through authentication with Flickr and generates your user token.

Prerequisites

• You'll need a Flickr API key and secret (which you'll need to enter twice in this process).

• Before going through this, make sure you've set the callback url for the authetication on your application to be:

  http://www.pudd.co.uk/Utils/flickrFrob.aspx

Your privacy/security

Please note, no information is stored on this server about this 'transaction'.

Source Code

If you'd like a copy of this for your own use, please contact me and I'll be happy to send you a copy. This use ASP.NET 4 (VB.NET) and the FlickrNet project.