Search by title on flickr!
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I don’t usually change the titles of the photos I upload to flickr, mainly so that I can easily find the same photo on my computer. Given that there are about 350 million photos on flickr, I wanted to see if I was alone (most likely not, right?). So I searched for all photos with my most recently taken “real” photo (not cameraphone or screenshot-based photos).
You get 852 pretty cool photos (at time of posting). My guess is that most of these images are from Canon cameras, based on the fact that my Canon has an identical file naming system. I’m also sure that as you back down the number in the filename, the photos counts move up pretty dramatically. Just taking a peek, here’s IMG_0001, which returns almost 23,000 photos. Looking at the first images that a camera has ever taken is probably a more interesting search, but might also result in a lot of photos from around the house where the person first put batteries in the aforementioned camera.
I’d love to chart this somehow, but have no idea how to do it other than a manual survey. Does anyone know how to do this by writing a program that looks up the search results and then combines search topic with number of photo returns in an Excel spreadsheet?
This is a really cool concept. Let’s take a stab at it and if we can’t get anywhere you should drop a line to your buds over at Flickr - weren’t you talking with Katerina (or was it Heather Champ?) a while back?
So it should be pretty easy: http://www.flickr.com/services/api/flickr.photos.search.html
You’d just need to write a script that increments from IMG_0000 to IMG_9999 and stores the total from the results.