Project in early stage. Uses Flickr's API to populate Redis KV-store hashes (and ordered set) with information about images in the British Library's collection of out-of-copyright images. Access to the API is multithreaded to facilitate multiple open connections at once for speed.

Execution notes:

• Be sure to get and set an API key from flickr within populate.py
• Only gets the first 500 images...
• Requirements include
  • flickr.py (included!)
  • running instance of redis
  • redis python package
  • simplejson

Bugs are:

• Some errors are not caught (i.e. IOError from socket)
• Sometimes program does not terminate if there is an uncaught error

Other TODO items:

• Look at optimizing API access... currently using existing flickr.py, non-multithreaded