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		TTDaVeTT on March 15, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How I launched flickrup.com in less than two weeks Pretty cool. I'm curious, did you use the Flickr API to process the flickr url and get the thumbnail? or did you scrape it?

monological on March 15, 2009 [–]

I just exploded the link using "/", grabbed the ID of the photo and I used the flickr api to make sure that it's a valid photo_id.

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