Authenticating Flickcurl

Build Flickcurl library and flickcurl utility
Register application to get API Key and Shared Secret
Getting Authentication Token from API Key and Secret
Use flickcurl

Build Flickcurl library and flickcurl utility

  $ ./configure
  $ make

You should get an error if you now try the utility:

  $ utils/flickcurl photos.getInfo 1234567
  flickcurl: ERROR: No shared secret
  flickcurl: Command photos.getInfo failed

This is because there is no configuration set for the library. For the flickcurl utility, it reads the configuration from a file ~/.flickcurl.conf which contains parameters used for authentication. This section describes how those parameters are obtained.