How To Search Flickr Photos By Date

Flickr Photo Search By Date

The tutorial shows you how to search for photos on Flickr based using a date range and a selection of either the date the photo was taken, or the date the photo was uploaded to Flickr. The date taken is useful where you have a camera that is configured with the correct time and the camera is able to store the time the photo was taken.

Flickr Date Parameters

Slickr Flickr has four parameters to help with searching by dates:

• date_type – “taken” or “upload” (default is “taken”)
• date – used where you want to select photos for a specific day
• after – used where you want to select photos on or after a specific day
• before – used where you want to select photos on or before a specific day

If you specify the “date” parameter then the “after” and before” parameters are ignored.

If you do not specify the “date” parameter then you can specify either the “after” parameter, the “before” parameter or both the “before” and “after” parameters if you want to fetch all photos between 2 dates.

Date Formats

The recommended date format to be used in the dateis YYYY-MM-DD as this is unambiguous. However you can get fancy with the dates :

• after=”last Monday” (since last Monday)
• before=”-1 year” (more than a year ago)
• before=”-1 week” after=”-2 weeks” (last week)
• date=”-1 day” (yesterday)

If you specify an invalid date it will just get ignored.

Flickr Video Tutorial for Search by Date

From Slickr Flickr version 1.22 onwards you can select tagged photos by date.

If you specify the “date”, “after” or “before” parameters the Flickr API search will automatically be invoked.

Example of Photos Taken On a Specific Date

[code]slickr-flickr tag="roma" date="2010-08-21" items="6" flickr_link="on"[/code]

Example of Photos Upload On a Specific Date

[code]slickr-flickr date_type="upload" date="2010-12-10" items="6" flickr_link="on"[/code]

Example of Photos Taken Before a Specific Date

[code]slickr-flickr before="2006-03-10" items="6" flickr_link="on"[/code]

Example of Photos Taken After a Specific Date

[code]slickr-flickr date_type="taken" after="2011-01-21" items="6" flickr_link="on"[/code]

Example of Photos Taken Between Specific Dates

[code]slickr-flickr after="2010-11-01" before="2010-12-31" items="6" flickr_link="on"[/code]

Updated by Russell.