A Fool's Wisdom » flickr http://foolswisdom.com A fool and his blog are soon parted. Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:39:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Given the Filename, Finding the Flickr Photo, photo.gne http://foolswisdom.com/given-the-filename-finding-the-flickr-photo-photogne/ http://foolswisdom.com/given-the-filename-finding-the-flickr-photo-photogne/#comments Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:11:06 +0000 Lloyd http://foolswisdom.com/rdy-given-the-filename-finding-the-flickr-photo-photo_zoomgne/ Continue reading →]]> Given a link like http://farm1.static.flickr.com/22/39727523_af63f401a8.jpg, you can get to the photo on Flickr at
http://flickr.com/photo.gne?id=39727523 .

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/22/39727523_af63f401a8.jpg http://flickr.com/photo.gne?id=39727523
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/22/[id]_[salt].jpg http://flickr.com/photo.gne?id=[id]  

Ment's Face On The Floor

I regularly find myself viewing a photo either hosted on Flickr or with that tell tale file name and no link to the photo. Unfortunately, sometimes without the photographer’s permission. A comment on the photo’s page in Flickr always seems appreciated.

It seems the salt, randomizing the file name, was added some time ago to discourage copyright infringements (image security). Specifically given a file name of a small version of an image, there is no way to guess as to the web address of the larger version.

Updated Aug. 24 changing photo_zoom.gne to photo.gne based on tip from Thomas Stache!

Updated Nov. 9th Came across Photo Source URLs which describes the construction of the file names in detail.

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