---
name: "flickrdf"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "flickcurl"
version: "1.26-13"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/flickrdf"
---

# flickrdf(1)

call Flickr API

## NAME

flickrdf - call Flickr API

## SYNOPSIS

**flickrdf** \[**-d** *DELAY*\] \[**-a** *FROB*\] \[**-h**\] \[**-v**\]\

## DESCRIPTION

**flickrdf** is a utility that uses the *photos.getInfo* API to interpret the description fields and the tags for a photo URI into RDF triples. If raptor is present, it will be used to provide proper serializing to RDF rather than the built in and hacky ntriples/turtle output.

Machine tags when they are found are scanned for *xmlns:prefix=uri* and then all other machine tags with that prefix turn into triples. Several prefixes are also pre-defined by the library to automatically get turned into triples without an xmlns, such as *blue:*, *cell:*, *filter:* and *geo:*. Non-machine tags are not yet interpreted.

## OPTIONS

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (\`-'). A summary of options is included below.

- **-h, --help**

  Show summary of options and exit.

- **-v, --version**

  Display the version of the program and exit.

- **-d *DELAY*, --delay *DELAY***

  Set delay between requests to *DELAY* milliseconds.

- **-D, --debug**

  Print lots of debugging output.

- **-o, --output *FORMAT***

  Set output format to *FORMAT*. *FORMAT* is one of:\
         *ntriples*        N-Triples (default)\
         *turtle*          Turtle\
         *rdfxml*-xmp      RDF/XML (XMP Profile)\
         *rdfxml*-abbrev   RDF/XML (Abbreviated)\
         *rdfxml*          RDF/XML\
         *rss-1.0*         RSS 1.0\
         *dot*             GraphViz DOT format The exact list depends on the version of Raptor that flickcurl is linked against.

## SEE ALSO

**[flickcurl(1)](/flickcurl/1.md),**[libraptor(3)](/libraptor/3.md).\

## AUTHOR

flickrdf was written by David Beckett.

This manual page was written by Kumar Appaiah \<akumar@ee.iitm.ac.in\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).