Thanks for the response. I figured out my problem. Somehow, my photoID
values were messed up. Use a bad value and you're served the first photo in
an album. My bad.

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Scout

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Jeff Fisher <[email protected]>wrote:

> Look for the <link> element with rel="alternate".
>
> Cheers,
> -Jeff
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Scout <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> I'd like to link to a single Picasa Web Albums photo page from an
>> external Web site.
>>
>> The links look suspiciously like:
>> http://picasaweb.google.com/<username>/<albumName>#<photoId>
>> But when I use such a link, I'm taken to the first photo in an album,
>> not the particular photo specified by the photoID. That seems very odd
>> to me, but it's very consistent.
>>
>> So, I'm willing to use the link given by "Link to this Photo" link on
>> the right side of the photo page. That looks something like:
>>
>> http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/NiRsXdJ2prptRo9x2JTBpR?feat=directlink
>>
>> But, how do I use the API to retrieve the value of that link? I don't
>> want to manually go through all the photos in my albums, clicking and
>> cutting and pasting the URL for each of my many photos. And I don't
>> see that directlink in any of the XML output returned by any of the
>> feed or entry queries for the photo.
>>
>>
>>
>
> >
>

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