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#71 Errors when searching by dates
When I try to perform a search bounded by dates (doesn't matter taken or uploaded) I usually get no results or wrong results.
For example, min_taken_date=2008-05-06 and max_taken_date=2009-05-06 returns no results (the same using the flickr official API http://www.flickr.com/services/api/explore/\).
I've looked at how Flickr perform this searches and I've realized that they have changed the way they do that. They use the parameter d (I guess of date) with the value taken-20080506-2009-05-06 instead of min_taken_date and max_taken_date. So I guess that flickrj API should be adapted to use this new parameter "d".
Am I right?
min_taken_date take timestamps as argument and not yyyy-mm-dd. I tried that at api/explore and timestamps are working there. That is done right in flickrj.
But the parameter d is not recognized at the REST-interface. That seems to be a construct used only at the website.
If something's not working, you could share some code, to look at it.
I've also tried it with unix timestamps.
Just open the explore http://www.flickr.com/services/api/explore/?method=flickr.photos.search and try to search by min_taken_date = 1210032000 and max_taken_date = 1241568000 (which corresponds to the date range that I put in the original post).
I guess that the issue is related with some limitation on the maxium number of results that a query could return because if you try to do that search http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=&d=taken--20100518 it also doesn't return any result, but if you try to request photos before 2007-05-18 it DOES return results (http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=&d=taken--20070518).