In the Flickr API docs, you need to find the MD5 sum of a string to generate the [api_sig]
value.
How does one go about generating an MD5 sum from a string?
Flickr’s example:
string: 000005fab4534d05api_key9a0554259914a86fb9e7eb014e4e5d52permswrite
MD5 sum: a02506b31c1cd46c2e0b6380fb94eb3d
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Answer
For Python 2.x, use python’s hashlib
import hashlib m = hashlib.md5() m.update("000005fab4534d05api_key9a0554259914a86fb9e7eb014e4e5d52permswrite") print m.hexdigest()
Output: a02506b31c1cd46c2e0b6380fb94eb3d