I’ve been playing about with the flickr API this evening. While reading up on what other people had done with it I had an idea. Last week I stumbled across someone who had uploaded a photo of mine to his stream and put it on his blog (why not just embed it directly, fool!), needless to say I made him remove it from his stream.

This gave me an idea to come up with a tool that allows bloggers, writers or even web designers to search for images that they can use legally without asking the creator. So, after playing about with it tonight I have come up with a general framework which can be seen here:


http://flickr.nightphoto.co.uk/search-free-images.php

At the moment I have limited the search to one CC license, and that is the Attribution License. Hopefully I can incorporate other licenses for a broader search range.

It’s still very messy and needs a lot of work, but I think it will be very useful for bloggers! I know there are already advanced search tools in flickr but this one incorporates the whole process in one page load and has the embed code included in the search results for speed and ease of use!