In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a photo wall of your Flickr photos. The script will use jQuery to send several Ajax requests for JSON data and then ultimately insert all of the images and the information associated with them into the document. The photo wall will be complete with a rollover on each image which will show and link to the information that is available for the image.

Flickr is a very well developed web application that allows you to store and share your photos. The site has an easy to use API that will allow you to use access almost all of the data on Flickr. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how the basics of using the API, requesting data in JSON format, experimenting with an optional argument, and what to do with the data you receive from a request.