Getting flickr thumbnail

Question

I'm trying to get a thumbnail of flickr pictures in PHP.

All I saw was this in their API: http://www.flickr.com/services/api/misc.urls.html

Which is a overkill. In instagr.am/twitpic and others I found a very easy way of doing so (just adding to the url the request).

Is there an option with flickr I'm missing?

Answer 1

If you have the URL to the Flickr image, all you have to do is modify the suffix to get a different size of the photo. For example:

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/2/1418878_1e92283336_m.jpg

This URL loads the medium sized photo. If we simply change the _m to _t, we would get the thumbnail:

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/2/1418878_1e92283336_t.jpg

You can also use s for small, z for medium, and b for large.