I set myself a mission the other day – to automatically post photos from flickr to wordpress.
I have my other blog set to update twitter when I add a new post to wordpress – but I didn’t want to have to go to Flickr and click “blog this” every time I upload a photo from my iPhone. I know I could just upload to wordpress but I dont trust my host enough so I always want to have as few files as possible to move hosts quickly!! – bad experiences ¬¬)
To cut a long story short heres what I do to autopost Flickr posts to WordPress:
Clone this yahoo pipe. I cloned and modified this from Manifest DeNsity.
Edit the pipe and replace the fetch feed with the url found at the bottom of your flickr page.
The structure will be something like this:
http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=38083777@N08&lang=en-us&format=rss_200
Save the pipe and run it. Click the “Get an RSS” link and burn that feed using Feedburner. Under the Optimize tab enable smart feed, this neatens the RSS feed up. You could skip this step but if you find theres some problems with importing the posts it could be because of this.
Install WP-O-Matic and follow the setup instructions. I’ve set my cron job to update every 6 hours. More info on how to do this can be found here
In the wp-o-matic admin add a new campaign using the feedburned URL. Select the Category you wish to post into – and your done!
This is fantastic! just what I was looking for. However, the pipe only seems to work properly for my main photostream. If I try and use the RSS for a set in my photostream it doesn’t bring back the pictures. Any ideas?
Thanks for the link — I’m glad you found the pipe tutorial useful! One small thing, though: it’s Manifest DeNsity, not Manifest Destiny.