Hello Chris, I did some digging, and we might hope to resolve at some point in the future when we transition to a different storage backend. The number that is reported in totalResults is essentially a guess of how many photos *might * be returned if they were all returned, although the actual number is likely to not be that value because there is some filtering that happens after the results are fetched but before the actual results are returned.
I'm not sure how people use the totalResults or what kinds of problems this would cause. If you use totalResults as an estimate, and page through the results with a reasonable page window, you should be able to view the photos until you have returned all the photos. I hope that at least helps a little, perhaps only to shed a little light. Thank you, -Mike On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Chris Bartley <[email protected]> wrote: > The API > docs<https://developers.google.com/picasa-web/docs/2.0/developers_guide_java#ListPhotos>say > that an URL like this... > > https://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/*username*?kind=photo > > ...will "retrieve the latest photos uploaded by username" (unfortunately > with no definition as to what "latest" means, or how to specify a time > range). However, when I try, I get wildly inconsistent results, especially > with regards to the openSearch.totalResults field. I have 75 photos in > my account, but the openSearch.totalResults field is *never* 75 for me, > but rather always something smaller like 65, 68, or 71. I'm apparently not > the only one with this problem, because the exact same behavior was > reported in issue > 2403<http://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=2403> > ...over *two years* ago. And, from what I can tell, issue > 2825<http://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=2825>is related. > > Since this problem is apparently over two years old, I'm not holding my > breath for a fix any time soon, so how do people actually use the API to > retrieve photos if you can't rely on totalResults being correct or > consistent? Is there a workaround? Or am I just misunderstanding the API? > > thanks, > > Chris > > -- > 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/-/JvY2MKE2BpAJ. > 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 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.
