# Problem accessing the flickr API

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problem-accessing-the-flickr-api/210852
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [December 22, 2006, 8:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problem-accessing-the-flickr-api/210852 "2006-12-22T20:43:14Z")
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### Author: ![jazgold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@jazgold](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jazgold)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2006, 8:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problem-accessing-the-flickr-api/210852/1 "2006-12-22T20:43:14Z")

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i’m hoping this might ring a bell with someone.

some background: i made a swf which searches flickr for images based on a keyword. the user selects one of the images, and the swf kaleidoscopes the image and transitions between randomly chosen cropped sections of the image (still kaleidoscoped).

when i run it **in the flash IDE, it works fine** , the xml comes back through, i parse it… yay.

when i export and run it **through a browser** (locally & remotely) **i get no XML data** back from the flickr server. the message back is empty.

so i can’t tell if this is a problem with flickr (though i can’t see how the flickr server could distinguish between the two scenarious) or if it’s a problem with the flash 8 security access. i tried “local access only” and “remote acces only” but neither work.

thanks