idFindr

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If you've used badgr you'll know that you need to get a flickr id from someplace or another, and with badgr 2.0 that can mean either a user id, group id or a photoset id, these can be a pain to find and although I'd provided a link to the idGettr site to help you get your userid or groupd id... it wasn't really good enough.

Worse still if you wanted to display the photos from a photoset you were supposed to figure how to get the photoset id for yourself (it's the last number in the url of the photoset gallery page in Flickr.)

All of this seems like a lot to ask, and apart from me becoming a bit of a Flickr geek, many (let's say most) people will probably glaze over if I asked what a photoset id was... (either that or they just walk away shaking their head, just like that lady did at the bus stop...) ...But I'm veering wildly off topic here and I need to get back on track.

Anyway, so I decided to build a web application which is basically idGetter on steroids (apparently saying "on Steriods" will impress you.) Not not only will it get a group id, photoset id and user id from a Flickr URL, it'll also let you get a userid by searching for an email address (much easier to remember than a dumb URL right!?) or even better than that, by searching for a flickr username... Tell me, what could be simpler?!?

Even more amazing, idFindr will also list photosets and groups that a user belongs to. It's really quite a helpful little thing.

It will have it's own page soon enough but in the meantime it will have to make do with this lowly blog post... Ladies, gentlemen... I give you idFindr.

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I almost forgot to mention that idFindr is also integrated into the badgr2.0 construction kit. (sorry about the excitement.)

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