Ahh, that makes sense. Thanks Mike for the update! And just out of curiousity though, is there a place for announcing API changes in case there were a change?
Thanks again, Tim On Wednesday, May 16, 2012 2:40:12 PM UTC-7, Mike Erickson wrote: > > Hello Tim, > > Thanks for checking back. We do review forum posts and respond when time > permits. > > This is actually a result of a bug in our storage system which failed to > pick up the exif from one of the processing backends, but the problem is > fixed and we are running through the photos effected by this bug and > restoring the exif. This might take a little while (days to weeks) but you > should see the exif reappear once your photos have been reprocessed. > > This is a backend issue and not an API issue, so please be assured that > there were no unannounced changes to the API. > > Thank you, and sorry for the delay in getting back to you on this. > -m.e. > > > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Tim Gupta wrote: > >> Anyone? Anyone there from Google? The API for getting EXIF data from a >> photo is still broken. >> >> I get an empty EXIF tag back whether I use a token or do an >> unauthenticated call. >> >> On a related note, is there somewhere that I can go to keep up to date on >> API changes like this so I don't get caught by surprise? >> >> Thanks in advance! >> Tim >> >> >> On Friday, May 11, 2012 12:24:05 AM UTC-7, Tim Gupta wrote: >>> >>> Anyone know why the Exif data seems to no longer be coming with the >>> Picasa API? >>> >>> I get the Exif with an older album (from January 2012): >>> https://picasaweb.google.com/**data/feed/api/user/tjgupta/** >>> albumid/5705507652193396273/**photoid/5705507721909034290?** >>> prettyprint=true<https://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/tjgupta/albumid/5705507652193396273/photoid/5705507721909034290?prettyprint=true> >>> >>> >>> But not from one I uploaded yesterday: >>> https://picasaweb.google.com/**data/feed/api/user/tjgupta/** >>> albumid/5740958642333381937/**photoid/5740958675959149826?** >>> prettyprint=true<https://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/tjgupta/albumid/5740958642333381937/photoid/5740958675959149826?prettyprint=true> >>> >>> >>> I verified that the photos do in fact have the exif data still >>> attached to them (they display their exif properly on 500px.com), but >>> they're also showing weird exif on G+. >>> >>> Is there an undocumented change to the API that just recently >>> happened? Bug? A bunch of my web application suddenly stopped working >>> (www.shutterguides.com). >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Google Picasa Web Albums API" group. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-picasa-data-api/-/_dp6tMexDwgJ. >> >> 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. >> > > On Wednesday, May 16, 2012 2:40:12 PM UTC-7, Mike Erickson wrote: > > Hello Tim, > > Thanks for checking back. We do review forum posts and respond when time > permits. > > This is actually a result of a bug in our storage system which failed to > pick up the exif from one of the processing backends, but the problem is > fixed and we are running through the photos effected by this bug and > restoring the exif. This might take a little while (days to weeks) but you > should see the exif reappear once your photos have been reprocessed. > > This is a backend issue and not an API issue, so please be assured that > there were no unannounced changes to the API. > > Thank you, and sorry for the delay in getting back to you on this. > -m.e. > > > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Tim Gupta <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Anyone? Anyone there from Google? The API for getting EXIF data from a >> photo is still broken. >> >> I get an empty EXIF tag back whether I use a token or do an >> unauthenticated call. >> >> On a related note, is there somewhere that I can go to keep up to date on >> API changes like this so I don't get caught by surprise? >> >> Thanks in advance! >> Tim >> >> >> On Friday, May 11, 2012 12:24:05 AM UTC-7, Tim Gupta wrote: >>> >>> Anyone know why the Exif data seems to no longer be coming with the >>> Picasa API? >>> >>> I get the Exif with an older album (from January 2012): >>> https://picasaweb.google.com/**data/feed/api/user/tjgupta/** >>> albumid/5705507652193396273/**photoid/5705507721909034290?** >>> prettyprint=true<https://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/tjgupta/albumid/5705507652193396273/photoid/5705507721909034290?prettyprint=true> >>> >>> >>> But not from one I uploaded yesterday: >>> https://picasaweb.google.com/**data/feed/api/user/tjgupta/** >>> albumid/5740958642333381937/**photoid/5740958675959149826?** >>> prettyprint=true<https://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/tjgupta/albumid/5740958642333381937/photoid/5740958675959149826?prettyprint=true> >>> >>> >>> I verified that the photos do in fact have the exif data still >>> attached to them (they display their exif properly on 500px.com), but >>> they're also showing weird exif on G+. >>> >>> Is there an undocumented change to the API that just recently >>> happened? Bug? A bunch of my web application suddenly stopped working >>> (www.shutterguides.com). >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Google Picasa Web Albums API" group. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-picasa-data-api/-/_dp6tMexDwgJ. >> >> 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. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Picasa Web Albums API" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-picasa-data-api/-/3FzkdBP5a28J. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. 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