Re: [Flickr APIs] flickr.people Search by name?

Paul M. Watson <paulw-TOo+ZSFip06H1Tvi1vFFB9BPR1lH4CV8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
: flickr.photos.search allows you to specify the user_id to narrow the
: search down. That is handy but from a users perspective a user name is
: much more useable than an id.

if you're searching for a specific user's photos,
then you can authenticate as them (using either
the soon-to-be auth api, or the email/password
params) and call flickr.test.login to get their
user id (or whatever we rename that method to).

since we have the flickr.urls.* methods which
turn an NSID into a url, we might also want 
methods to turn a url into an NSID.
 - flickr.urls.lookupUser
 - flickr.urls.lookupGroup

NSID lookup by email address or username might
also be useful.
 - flickr.people.findByEmail
 - flickr.people.findByUsername


--cal