Flickr Favorites are IMO one of the most underrated (and awesome) features of Flickr (really old school users might remember that it started out as the “shoebox” functionality from the very beginning). I have a couple projects I want to do with Favorites, but for now, I’m kicking it off w/ a simple script that posts a snapshot of my favorites on my blog on a weekly basis (i.e. like so).

The code is trivial. Here’s a link to the python source – I pull straight from the HTML page because I’m lazy (both the API and the RSS would be more work to parse and format. I’ll be finding a better way to expose my shiny new public svn repository (Trac and WebSVN generate RSS feeds, so there’s potential there…)