Thanks Mate. I had hoped that that caveat just didn't apply to me :) I subscribed to the issue now, too bad I chose the one parameter that doesn't work as my entire form of navigation! I guess.... I .... will... have..... to ....wait.
Thanks for your help, glad I am not totally crazy with it not working. On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Jeff Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
