Thanks a lot Mike, that works now. The fixed prefix is Gv1sRg for anyone else that may need to do this.
My application creates an API call to interact with a user's album after getting a user to feed it their 'Share' URL. On Wednesday, June 27, 2012 4:34:43 PM UTC+2, Mike Erickson wrote: > > Why are you parsing a Google+ URL and building an API call from there? > > In any case, the authkey is the same in both places, but in picasaweb it > has a fixed prefix. I don't have it right here with me (phone) but go to > picasaweb and find an album with an authkey, then pull off the first 6 > characters. Then any key from a G+ URL will work my pre-pending that prefix. > > We can discuss why this is done, but we won't get into it here. > > HTH > > Hello, >> >> This is a private album, accessible using the authkey in the URL = >> https://plus.google.com/**photos/109646834184112612818/** >> albums/5752347531414047777?**authkey=CL3tqcPapcuDSw<https://plus.google.com/photos/109646834184112612818/albums/5752347531414047777?authkey=CL3tqcPapcuDSw> >> >> This is the same private album, which I am trying to access using the >> same authkey over the API = https://picasaweb.google.com/** >> data/feed/api/user/**109646834184112612818/albumid/** >> 5752347531414047777?authkey=**CL3tqcPapcuDSw<https://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/109646834184112612818/albumid/5752347531414047777?authkey=CL3tqcPapcuDSw> >> I've tried a number of variations of this last URL, including using the >> 'kind=' parameter but with no luck. >> >> Can somebody help ? >> >> Thanks, >> B. >> >> -- >> 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/-/khT9Qsah78wJ. >> 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/-/bZjVtBH0_xoJ. 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.
