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Display Flickr Feeds with JSON and Javascript

I have recently been working on a project for a client that required an image gallery component. The images that were to be used in the gallery were in a set on Flickr. I had two options on displaying the images:

  • Download and re-upload each image to a directory on the project website (long, tedious, and inefficient)
  • Pull the images in live from Flickr (dynamic and efficient)

I had a problem, however: I had no idea how to pull images live from Flickr. However, I had recently begun learning JavaScript, and wanted to put my new skills to the test. I began to research…
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