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snarfed / bridgy

📣 Connects your web site to social media. Likes, retweets, mentions, cross-posting, and more...
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cache Flickr comments, favorites (blocked on Flickr API) #1234

Open snarfed opened 2 years ago

snarfed commented 2 years ago

Flickr polls don't currently use ETag or cache, so they redo a lot of work fetching comments and favorites. Let's fix that!

snarfed commented 2 years ago

This doesn't look doable right now, sadly. The Flickr API doesn't expose a photo's comment or favorite count anywhere; see eg the flickr.people.getPhotos docs and its extras list.

flickr.activity.userPhotos gives us the authed user's recent photos and their comments, which seems ideal! But only recent photos, not comments, and I couldn't get it to give me any at all, even with timeframe=9999d. Their API forum has a couple similar reports. Also this one asking how to fetch comments in bulk, with no answer.