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import requests as r
import urllib
import json
import os


    

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print urllib.quote_plus("java vs c++")


    

    




java+vs+c%2B%2B

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url = "https://api.flickr.com/services/rest/"

args=dict() # parameters to pass to flickr rest api
args['method'] = 'flickr.photos.search'
args['sort'] = 'relevance'
args['safe_search'] = 1
args['content_type'] = 7
args['media'] = 'photos'
args['extras'] = 'url_n'
args['per_page'] = 5
args['page'] = 1
args['format']='json'
args['jsoncallback'] = 1
args['tag_mode'] = 'AND'


    

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args['tags'] = 'parrot bird'
args['api_key'] =  os.environ['FLICKR_API_KEY']

o = r.get(url, args)
print o.ok
print o.status_code


    

    




True
200

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text = o.text
text = text[2:-1] # remove round bracket for json parsing
text


    

    
Out[10]:





u'{"photos":{"page":1,"pages":8,"perpage":5,"total":"37","photo":[{"id":"24178997951","owner":"67627528@N04","secret":"7eda242136","server":"1528","farm":2,"title":"the nectar hunters - rainbow lorikeet in the eurodia tree","ispublic":1,"isfriend":0,"isfamily":0,"url_n":"https:\\/\\/farm2.staticflickr.com\\/1528\\/24178997951_7eda242136_n.jpg","height_n":320,"width_n":"320"},{"id":"16219445840","owner":"67627528@N04","secret":"bc8396fda2","server":"7301","farm":8,"title":"the nut crackers - rainbow lorikeet","ispublic":1,"isfriend":0,"isfamily":0,"url_n":"https:\\/\\/farm8.staticflickr.com\\/7301\\/16219445840_bc8396fda2_n.jpg","height_n":240,"width_n":"320"},{"id":"8648912075","owner":"9852588@N07","secret":"6b1c8c5656","server":"8245","farm":9,"title":"You talking to me!","ispublic":1,"isfriend":0,"isfamily":0,"url_n":"https:\\/\\/farm9.staticflickr.com\\/8245\\/8648912075_6b1c8c5656_n.jpg","height_n":"320","width_n":213},{"id":"7915365408","owner":"47862503@N05","secret":"143642671b","server":"8314","farm":9,"title":"Parrot","ispublic":1,"isfriend":0,"isfamily":0,"url_n":"https:\\/\\/farm9.staticflickr.com\\/8314\\/7915365408_143642671b_n.jpg","height_n":"320","width_n":293},{"id":"7012147215","owner":"28238663@N02","secret":"636f13eab6","server":"7096","farm":8,"title":"Silver Springs Park FL (1 Feb 2012) 183","ispublic":1,"isfriend":0,"isfamily":0,"url_n":"https:\\/\\/farm8.staticflickr.com\\/7096\\/7012147215_636f13eab6_n.jpg","height_n":212,"width_n":"320"}]},"stat":"ok"}'

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json.loads(text)


    

    
Out[12]:





{u'photos': {u'page': 1,
  u'pages': 8,
  u'perpage': 5,
  u'photo': [{u'farm': 2,
    u'height_n': 320,
    u'id': u'24178997951',
    u'isfamily': 0,
    u'isfriend': 0,
    u'ispublic': 1,
    u'owner': u'67627528@N04',
    u'secret': u'7eda242136',
    u'server': u'1528',
    u'title': u'the nectar hunters - rainbow lorikeet in the eurodia tree',
    u'url_n': u'https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1528/24178997951_7eda242136_n.jpg',
    u'width_n': u'320'},
   {u'farm': 8,
    u'height_n': 240,
    u'id': u'16219445840',
    u'isfamily': 0,
    u'isfriend': 0,
    u'ispublic': 1,
    u'owner': u'67627528@N04',
    u'secret': u'bc8396fda2',
    u'server': u'7301',
    u'title': u'the nut crackers - rainbow lorikeet',
    u'url_n': u'https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7301/16219445840_bc8396fda2_n.jpg',
    u'width_n': u'320'},
   {u'farm': 9,
    u'height_n': u'320',
    u'id': u'8648912075',
    u'isfamily': 0,
    u'isfriend': 0,
    u'ispublic': 1,
    u'owner': u'9852588@N07',
    u'secret': u'6b1c8c5656',
    u'server': u'8245',
    u'title': u'You talking to me!',
    u'url_n': u'https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8245/8648912075_6b1c8c5656_n.jpg',
    u'width_n': 213},
   {u'farm': 9,
    u'height_n': u'320',
    u'id': u'7915365408',
    u'isfamily': 0,
    u'isfriend': 0,
    u'ispublic': 1,
    u'owner': u'47862503@N05',
    u'secret': u'143642671b',
    u'server': u'8314',
    u'title': u'Parrot',
    u'url_n': u'https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8314/7915365408_143642671b_n.jpg',
    u'width_n': 293},
   {u'farm': 8,
    u'height_n': 212,
    u'id': u'7012147215',
    u'isfamily': 0,
    u'isfriend': 0,
    u'ispublic': 1,
    u'owner': u'28238663@N02',
    u'secret': u'636f13eab6',
    u'server': u'7096',
    u'title': u'Silver Springs Park FL (1 Feb 2012) 183',
    u'url_n': u'https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7096/7012147215_636f13eab6_n.jpg',
    u'width_n': u'320'}],
  u'total': u'37'},
 u'stat': u'ok'}