Fotolia's tag cloud and search results

I have started to play a little with fotolia's API. I thought it will be harder to get some useful data out of it, however it turns out it is a great fun to use their API. My only problem so far that they do not allow access to all the details on the contributor page (e.g. it is not possible to collect the credit earnings data on an individual image). I also had a technical problem with the user login that is required to access some more details about an individual contributor. Even though I am not able to access this data right now I am not going to press it harder to have a complete Java API. Instead I have started to focus on the stats I am planning to do. And thankfully these stats have nothing to do with the details you can get when logged in as a contributor.

My first trial on how can I use the API for improving my photography is to do a single search on every word in the tag clouds. The results will let me choose the keywords that are least used thus they are worth using. These keywords are the ones which are well searched but has the lowest competition: Laos, ships, wreck, lorry, nuclear, cables. So I believe the best picture you can make for Fotolia would be a nuclear aeroplane carrier wrecked near to Laos that is rescued by lorries pulling it off the coast with strong cables. OK this was the fun part.

I think the statistics might be useful for others too, so here is the entire table with the results:

Word from the cloud	Result number with the given search term
abstract	474639
adult	391461
aeroplane	7687
animal	267064
apple	63639
architecture	231558
art	388796
artistic	103662
asian	91753
attractive	387251
autumn	136617
baby	106735
background	1215977
ball	114731
bank	67915
bar	59474
bath	39187
beach	196972
beautiful	795328
beauty	723581
black	522012
blue	825436
boat	80536
body	191913
box	72334
bright	252399
brown	293568
bubbles	18666
building	219207
business	532649
businessman	103433
cables	4245
camel	4353
car	68069
cat	42961
chair	41408
chinese	48275
chocolate	53370
christmas	204301
church	82433
city	176029
clock	28908
close	170458
close-up	333882
closeup	317549
cloud	143778
clouds	144985
coffee	81804
cold	136037
color	582343
colorful	246727
colour	121638
colourful	52380
communication	148925
computer	189182
concept	297522
conceptual	84237
container	42900
contrast	35591
corporate	120485
couple	102150
dance	43843
design	477125
detail	187274
diet	201798
digital	119039
earth	90043
eat	162627
education	102992
element	113168
emotion	96372
england	25131
euro	38425
europe	137412
exam	12820
expression	170603
eye	132349
eyes	175234
face	430993
fashion	337929
female	698202
field	164149
finance	110678
fish	76783
flower	389416
flowers	130401
food	605394
fresh	418976
fruit	256382
fun	310592
garden	205273
gift	154507
girl	637715
girls	97486
glass	247302
golf	13905
graphic	223569
grass	242782
green	785660
hair	291919
halloween	27933
hand	338792
hands	305858
happy	487771
head	163523
health	379428
healthy	478027
holiday	453015
home	207421
horse	37515
horses	10061
hotel	42942
house	198186
houses	17190
hue	8397
human	259340
illustrated	14203
illustration	599161
india	18695
interior	71289
internet	131033
iron	42292
isolated	1017834
keyboard	43280
lady	272808
landscape	288477
laos	2188
laptop	76442
leaf	238279
leaves	123692
light	345880
line	121801
london	11925
lorry	3804
love	292563
macro	321267
mains	4067
male	283680
man	395532
massage	22978
metal	184531
mobile	45632
model	288051
modern	282430
money	135345
moon	20261
mouse	20337
naked	34700
natural	362542
nature	926853
network	43299
new	140556
night	91234
nuclear	3884
nude	23280
ocean	182247
office	218516
old	288378
orange	262735
outdoor	181237
pain	21897
park	153525
party	180518
pattern	326242
peace	67999
people	607619
person	547142
photo	84595
pictures	7157
piggy	4765
pink	195723
plant	335411
portrait	493059
pose	115890
pound	7815
prayer	15442
pretty	429187
project	15255
rainbow	29635
red	794417
reflection	182065
render	86682
rendered	13095
restaurant	113335
river	98444
rose	80663
rural	82517
sand	130866
saving	11403
sea	321684
season	231173
security	68477
sex	23606
sexy	239721
shadow	100105
shape	220202
ships	3495
shoes	24100
shop	48950
shopping	56435
sign	208787
silver	91483
skin	184817
sky	528451
smile	393893
smiling	282110
snow	130357
space	139370
spring	291685
star	84974
stone	157637
summer	522733
sun	261161
sunflower	15821
sunny	114855
sunset	78561
support	34304
sweet	251855
symbol	331583
teacher	12413
technology	227710
telephone	45844
texture	286721
thailand	18810
time	65216
tint	6448
training	48937
travel	316605
tree	357604
trees	357604
trust	12948
two	102863
up	115776
urban	102896
vacation	250911
vase	12711
view	151774
wall	113257
water	492384
weather	60250
wedding	87243
whiskers	6395
white	1444849
winter	191020
woman	798790
women	271044
wood	215094
work	221185
wreck	3518
yellow	468039
young	736731
youth	216241