We have been beta testing and thinking about api support for a long time now.
It doesn’t make a lot of sense for us to create a “23 API” that can only be used with our service and is proprietary.

We believe that APIs should be open and non-vendor specific to create a common field for interoperability and competition for anyone that wants to build apps using people’s photos in useful and creative ways. We believe that there should be a wide variety of services in the “photosphere” that gives people full freedom to choose whatever service and still be able to use a lot of 3rd party apps, see all the photos in the world on a tag, share private photos without requiring people to signup for the service one is using and to participate in photo community groups from all photo sharing services. Everything we know and love from the blogosphere.

We’re committed to participate in taking leadership to realize that vision together with other people who builds tools for sharing photos whether they are phpgallery software, photosharing services, communities, desktop apps, etc. Whether they are large and small. We’re all ready discussing this with a wide variety of people and hope soon to be able to start an open process.

In the meantime we’ve added (almost) full support for the so far most used photo sharing api, the Flickr API, giving any developer who’s already has spent time implementing the Flickr API a chance to support 23 without any changes.

Read more about how to add support for 23 in your app in our new 23 api section

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