So many of my Facebook / Flickr friends ask me this question, I’m going to blog the answer for the good of whoever wants to know. It’s easy, actually; Flickr will link to your Facebook account and automatically post your latest uploads to your FB profile.
Just go to your Flick Account Settings and click on the Extending Flickr tab. See at the bottom of the page? It says “Your Facebook account Link your accounts to share your Flickr updates on Facebook.” Click that link, and it will create a dynamic link between your Flickr account and your Facebook account. When you upload new photos to Flickr, they will automatically be posted to your Facebook profile as thumbnail image links like so:
Here is a caveat: it doesn’t always work automatically. I often have to go to my Facebook profile and click Settings (the one with the gear icon) below my status entry field. Then I have to click Update next to the Flickr import link. I often have to click this three times before it actually imports my latest photo links.
So, there you have it. That’s how to link your Flickr account to your Facebook account and have your Flickr photos show up in your Facebook profile.
Thanks Daniel!
Thanks for the post. I did this and all it did was jump to my facebook page. Is there a way to (a) know if this worked and (b) turn it off?
Thanks.
Just the info i needed – many thanks!
Flat out doesn’t do anything. If I take the steps listed in the “caveat,” I get everyone else’s pictures, which is not what I’m looking for. You’d think one would need to tell one application (Flickr) to automatically send the information, and the other (Facebook) to be ready to accept it.
Well, it does work if you do it right, Machiya. Sometimes Facebook will throw up an error message that says, “Importing from external site failed,” but as long as Facebook is working, it will work. I don’t know why you would get everyone else’s photos unless you didn’t set it up with your own account. Try all the steps again, from going to your own Flickr account, clicking on the Extending Flickr tab, and clicking on “Your Facebook account Link your accounts to share your Flickr updates on Facebook.” Please leave another comment if that works.
Sometimes facebook imports the story without the picture, so basically something like “Eugenio upload a photo to flickr” exactly as in the normal case but without the preview of the pic on the left, very strange…did this ever happen to you?
Yeah. Sometimes there’s an empty box where the preview would be, but it usually fills in a while later if not right away.