Tracking comments on your Flickr photos by RSS
I’ve used Flickr and an RSS reader for years. But until tonight, I couldn’t figure out how to subscribe to a feed of comments left by my Flickr contacts on my photos (as opposed to the feed of actual images in my photostream, which Flickr makes quite easy to get).
There must be an easier way than this, but it works:
1. Use idGettr to help convert your friendly Flickr profile name (I’m lesteph) into the numeric ID Flickr uses behind the scenes to manage your account.
2. Grab the URL for the Atom feed of activity (i.e. comments) on your photostream, as per the Flickr API docs.
3. Add your numeric Flickr user id to the API URI:
http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/activity.gne?user_id=XXXXXXXXX@XXX
Et voila. Try out the feed, and subscribe to it in your reader.
