This is in python, but it may be analogous:
http://cychong.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/download-original-pictures-from-the-picasaweb/

On May 12, 1:57 pm, Philipp <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> I know this has been asked before, but I couldn't find a working
> solution. I'd like to download the original image (not scaled, not re-
> calculated) from Picasa using the Java Client API (http://
> code.google.com/p/google-api-java-client/).
>
> Here is what I've tried / looked at:
>
> - I've tried the code from stackoverflow [1] that uses the
> PhotoEntry.getMediaSource() method, but it always returns "null".
>
> - I tried the PhotoEntry.getMediaContents() method, but it returns an
> object of the type
> "com.google.gdata.data.media.mediarss.MediaContent", not
> "com.google.gdata.data.MediaContent", so there is no getInputStream()
> method.
>
> - I've tried the following code, but it returns an InputStream to a
> JPG file, even though I uploaded a PNG:
>
> MediaContent media = (MediaContent) photoEntry.getContent();
> MediaSource mediaSrc = picasaWebService.getMedia(media);
> // get file with mediaSrc.getInputStream()
>
> - I also read about the "imgmax=d" [2] trick, but I couldn't figure
> out how to get it to work with the client API.
>
> I really have no idea what to do. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Philipp
>
> [1]http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4515830/how-do-i-download-images-f...
> [2]http://code.google.com/apis/picasaweb/docs/2.0/reference.html#Parameters

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