Hi Mike, Thanks for the answer, but I can't get it to work. Here are some specifics:
The URL I have is the public URL that a person gets when they click the "Share" button in Picasa Web. Specifically, here is a real-life example: https://picasaweb.google.com/110918005189118533839/AmericanCanyonSeptember152012?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCLTGtYSlv8jAdg&feat=directlink I've used "110918005189118533839" as the album ID and plugged it into the link text you provided: http://picasaweb.google.com/data/entry/api/user/default/albumid/[ALBUM_ID]?prettyprint=true becomes http://picasaweb.google.com/data/entry/api/user/default/albumid/ 110918005189118533839?prettyprint=true<http://picasaweb.google.com/data/entry/api/user/default/albumid/%5BALBUM_ID%5D?prettyprint=true> and all I get is this message: "Invalid entity id: 110918005189118533839" I've tried every other value in the original URL and get the same results. Thanks, TJ On Monday, December 10, 2012 2:47:24 PM UTC-8, Mike Erickson wrote: > > 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 > > > -- 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/-/oC6gm1di5kIJ. 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.
