Cameron,
Thanks so much for taking the time to answer,
actually I'm not trying to predict it (I'm still realistic..)
i am trying to understand what API call will give me back the URL
based on image id
based on the assumption that in URL like this
http://picasaweb.google.com/sfegan/NamibiaEtosha?feat=featured#5386972981658651970
the fragment represents the image id
any suggestions?

On Oct 13, 5:43 pm, Cameron Hinkle <[email protected]>
wrote:
> There's really no way to predict the URL for an image.  For instance, here
> is the URL to one of my Picasa photos:
>
> http://lh5.ggpht.com/_g_TQ3qaWtNo/Sq_sydnw0AI/AAAAAAAAJWE/HUtLyEEuoao...
>
> And here's the URL to the very next photo:
>
> http://lh6.ggpht.com/_g_TQ3qaWtNo/Sq_syye_zBI/AAAAAAAAJWI/6yQf4aH8o-c...
>
> Good luck predicting the seemingly random sequences of numbers and letters.
>
> If you want a lighter solution to Zend, you can try my Lightweight PHP
> Picasa API.  It's a smaller download and it runs faster.  It doesn't use
> curl, though.  You can download it at
>
> http://www.cameronhinkle.com/blog/id/3696159074811309536
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Cameron
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Yaniv Golan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > hi
> > I'm writing a PHP mockup application that present photos posted to
> > social networks from different web services
> > i just need to get the URL to an image (or large enouth thumbnail)
> > based on it's id (extracted from the URL fragment)
> > this is fairly easy with other services (usually a simple HTTP call)
> > what would be the most simple way to achieve this with picasaweb?
> > i really don't feel like installing zend framework and use all this
> > heavy zend GDATA library for this, actually I'd like to be able to do
> > it using Curl because this is the only way i can multi-thread in PHP
> > there must be a simple way to this, after all this service is from
> > google right? :)
>
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