flouri.sh

All the flickr functionality with better iPhoto integration!

I just finished a conversion of my existing flickr ajax mephisto plugin to use mac.com web galleries! I finally ended up paying for mac.com, because of the awesome integration with everything.

Features:

• Pull photos from a specific album or your entire gallery
• Uses AJAX to pull feed data, so it won't bottleneck your main page rendering
• Randomly chooses X photos to display every time
• A variety of supported images sizes: square, small, medium, and large
• Images automatically link to Apple's awesome web gallery interface

Issues (depending on size of gallery, mine has 400 images at the time):

• The RSS feed takes between 2 and 10 seconds to deliver from apple.
• The downloaded XML file takes 2 to 5 seconds process.

Usage

How I used it in my site:

<p>Pictures:</p>
{% macgallery feed: http://gallery.mac.com/dsboulder/?webdav-method=truthget&feedfmt=photocastrss  count: 4  format: square  width: 75  height: 75 %} 
{% endmacgallery %}

Supported options to the "macgallery" liquid tag:

• feed: REQUIRED. The url of the RSS feed to your gallery, or to a specific album.
• count: OPTIONAL (default: 6). The number of images to display.
• format: OPTIONAL (default: square). Also valid are "small", "medium", and "large".
• width/height: OPTIONAL (default: none). If specified, will add width and height attributes to the IMG tag. Useful for resizing the square images from their 160x160 default size.

Where to get the plugin