Lightbox for photo feeds

03 Jun 2008

Because I needed it and I couldn’t find it: a tool to embed a Lightbox-based photo album viewer that uses an RSS photo feed as its input. It uses SimplePie RSS library, the Lytebox Javascript photo viewer, and RSS ‘photocast’ feeds from e.g. Flickr, Picasaweb and Smugmug.
It can be found here: tools.forret.com/lightbox/

An example: using the RSS feed of my favorite Flickr photos:

Made with the Lightbox for RSS photo feeds (Flickr, Picasa, Smugmug) tool.

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Lightbox for photo feeds

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