Oho! Almost a glaring omission, except the problem here is the request should return a proper error instead since this is not a supported operation. Examine the caveat at the end of the documentation:
"Searches the title, caption and tags for the specified string value. See the Google Data query parameter reference. This parameter can only be used with the user-based and community search feeds." So while enabling q for album-based feeds would be a great feature to have, it sadly isn't available at this time. Cheers, -Jeff On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Alastair Halliday <[email protected]> wrote: > (clears throat) and you are getting this too then? I'm not so sure I'm > bluffing :) > http://photos.googleapis.com/data/feed/api/user/alastair.halliday/album/RecentWork?q=Steve > > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Jeff Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hmm seems like it's only tag search on albums that is broken. Tag search >> on your user feed works fine: >> >> >> http://photos.googleapis.com/data/feed/api/user/alastair.halliday?tag=nature&kind=photo >> >> The problem with album tag search isn't specific to photos.googleapis.com, >> but is also broken on picasaweb.google.com as well: >> >> >> http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/alastair.halliday/album/RecentWork?tag=nature >> >> >> I call your bluff on saying that no query parameters work from the list: >> >> >> http://photos.googleapis.com/data/feed/api/user/alastair.halliday/album/RecentWork?imgmax=800&thumbsize=144&max-results=5&start-index=5&access=public&kind=photo >> >> Cheers, >> -Jeff >> >> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Jeff Fisher <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Ah, this is just really broken it seems. Sorry about that. I'm surprised >>> that you are the first person to report it (I suppose that says something >>> about our Flash adoption.) >>> >>> Here's the issue to watch as we work on the resolution: >>> >>> http://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=1089 >>> >>> Cheers, >>> -Jeff >>> >>> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Alastair Halliday >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Thanks Jeff. >>>> That doesn't seem to be the problem. I was aware of it, but in order to >>>> do due diligence I thought I would try both crossdomain urls anyway. >>>> The problem seems to be the following: using photos.googleapis.com no >>>> parameter works from this entire table in the reference guide: >>>> http://code.google.com/apis/picasaweb/reference.html#Parameters >>>> The following works: >>>> >>>> http://photos.googleapis.com/data/feed/api/user/alastair.halliday/album/RecentWork >>>> The following does NOT work: >>>> >>>> http://photos.googleapis.com/data/feed/api/user/alastair.halliday/album/RecentWork?tag=nature >>>> actually, any parameter after the "?" does not work, regardless of if >>>> that data exists in the album. Is this a bug, have you discontinues the use >>>> of any of those parameters from the reference table you provide >>>> at http://code.google.com/apis/picasaweb/reference.html#Parameters as well >>>> as doubling it up with album/albumID in the example below the table? Any >>>> help would be greatly appreciated. I would like to be able to select photos >>>> from an album using tags like I could previously. Thanks. >>>> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Jeff Fisher <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Surely then you realize that >>>>> >>>>> http://picasaweb.google.com/data/crossdomain.xml >>>>> >>>>> does not exist. We do not put permissive crossdomain.xml files on >>>>> google.com domain names, which is why photos.googleapis.com exists. You >>>>> need >>>>> to use the API through this alternate hostname: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> http://photos.googleapis.com/data/feed/api/user/MY_USER_NAME/album/RecentWork?tag=nature >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> -Jeff >>>>> >>>>> On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Calvinist <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm building a flash site that uses the picasa web album api. I AM >>>>>> using the >>>>>> System.security.loadPolicyFile("http://photos.googleapis.com/ >>>>>> data/crossdomain.xml"); and have also tried using >>>>>> System.security.loadPolicyFile("http://picasaweb.google.com/data/ >>>>>> crossdomain.xml"); to try and resolve this issue. >>>>>> >>>>>> I put down my project for three weeks, three weeks later, I get error >>>>>> messages whenever tI try to hit the api with the following URL: >>>>>> >>>>>> http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/MY_USER_NAME/album/RecentWork?tag=nature >>>>>> >>>>>> This album is public. >>>>>> >>>>>> I get errors accessing that URL in the following scenarios: >>>>>> When published directly from flash, not within a browser window (for >>>>>> testing) >>>>>> When all files are online in either safari OR FF >>>>>> When I try to open the page locally via FF (cookies on, but having >>>>>> never logged into picasa) >>>>>> When I paste the URL directly into FF >>>>>> >>>>>> I DON'T get errors in the following circumstance: >>>>>> When I view the page from my local computer in safari after being >>>>>> logged into picasa. >>>>>> >>>>>> Since this album is public I am not understanding this issue. I am >>>>>> also not understanding this issue because it worked perfectly three- >>>>>> four weeks ago, and after simply trying to open the file up again it >>>>>> doesn't work any more. I am totally confused. Any help would be >>>>>> GREATLY appreciated. This is a last resort for me. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Picasa Web Albums API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Picasa-Data-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
