Flickr finally gives ExifTool a mention

[Phil Harvey]

It has been obvious to me that Flickr has been using ExifTool to extract metadata from all uploaded photos since 2008, although I have never seen an official statement to this effect.

So far, ExifTool has been used by Flickr to process at least 4 billion images.

I have finally found documentation of this on the Flickr development blog, where ExifTool is mentioned in an offhand comment about how Flickr parses Exif data:

How Flickr currently parses Exif data.

Currently we parse an image's Exif data after it is uploaded to the Flickr servers and then expose that data on the photo's metadata page (http://www.flickr.com/photos/rubixdead/7192796744/meta/in/photostream). This page will show you all the data recorded from your camera when a photo was taken, the camera type, lens, aperture, exposure settings, etc. We currently use ExifTool (http://www.exiftool.org/) to parse all of this data, which is a robust, albeit server side only, solution.

- Phil

[BogdanH]

At last! Giving a credit is the least one can do -I mean, what took them that long? 

Bogdan

[Alan Clifford]

At last! Giving a credit is the least one can do -I mean, what took them that long? 

Bogdan

Hmmm, I guess I should do that on my little website of photos as I use exiftool extensively.


Alan

[StarGeek]

Congratulations!!