A couple times a year, someone asks how I created the Flickr "badge" that appears on the right side of my
blog front page. It's not using
JavaScript (what overkill that'd be) or anything fancy. It's simply an include
file built up by a
Perl script from a cron job every 20 minutes.
Basically it uses the Flickr API to fetch a list of my most recent photos, grabs the thumbnails, caches them on
disk, and then re-writes the include
file.
It's pretty simple, really. Here is the code: flickr_badge.pl.
It's a highly modified and pruned version of someone else's script that I ran across years ago. I have since lost the attribution, so
ping me if you know where it came from and I'll gladly give credit.
This code is free for the taking, as in Public
Domain. Use it for whatever you want. Feel free to give me credit or not. It's really not rocket surgery.