Hello TJ, Indeed, there is a way! If you request the photo entry, it will have a list of media elements on it that point to the cover for that photo.
So, if you have the album ID, you can: http://picasaweb.google.com/data/entry/api/user/default/albumid/[ALBUM_ID]?prettyprint=true Which will contain a media:group with media:content and some media:thumbnail elements, depending on the image size parameters<https://developers.google.com/picasa-web/docs/2.0/reference#Parameters>you passed in your request. Don't have the album ID because you're scraping the web UI? We can help you with that, too! Just take the album name from the page URL ( https://picasaweb.google.com/userid/[THISONE]) and add it to this slightly modified album entry URL: http://picasaweb.google.com/data/entry/api/user/default/album/[ALBUM_TITLE]?prettyprint=true I hope that helps, and stop scraping the web UI. Just use the API. It's okay. Thanks, -Mike On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 8:40 PM, TJ <[email protected]> wrote: > Given a URL to a public Picasa Web album, is there a way to retrieve the > thumbnail for that album? > > Should be a simple question. For YouTube it is simply a tweak on the > video URL but it doesn't seem to be so for Picasa Web. Am I missing > something here? > > Thanks, > > TJ > > -- > 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/-/4uPYZPHJMSUJ. > 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.
