We are facing perhaps the indexing issue with our albums and tags. It has some non-deterministic temporal conditions, perhaps indexing time (Now July 26, 4:35PM CET)
Here I prepared an example - the output should give 148 results but gives 0 sometimes 30, etc. Here is the album : https://picasaweb.google.com/hq.icpc/Test_1 with 148 images The album has a *description* *"AlbumTest_1"* and each picture has a *tag* " *event$Team Photos*" Here is the query: http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/hq.icpc/?kind=photo&q=* AlbumTest_1*&tag=*event$\\\"Team Photos\\\"* &start-index=1&max-results=25&thumbsize=72c&imgmax=512&access=public&alt=json Gives 0 (quotes and backslash changes does not impact the result ) http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/hq.icpc/?kind=photo&q=* AlbumTest_1* &start-index=1&max-results=25&thumbsize=72c&imgmax=512&access=public&alt=json Gives 0 Listing album gives me all http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/hq.icpc/album/Test_1/ All http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/hq.icpc/album/Test_1/?tag=event$\\\%22Team%20Photos\\\%22&start-index=1&max-results=25&thumbsize=72c&imgmax=512&access=public&alt=json 25 (restricted) Well I need to use the description *"AlbumTest_1" (or any other) *as a join for multiple albums, which works most of the time. we assume it has something to do with the indexing option: "Public on the web" vs. "Limited, anyone with the link". This temporal issue that comes up time to time is really bugging our clients, as we are not delivering the images. Any fix to this issue is very appreciated :)). I can provide more examples if it helps to debug the issue :D Thanks, Tomas On Tuesday, February 19, 2013 1:37:18 PM UTC+1, Sholto Ramsay wrote: > > I have noticed a number of reports on problems on tags so I will add > another. > > We search for public images from a user using tags which are then > displayed through zend as image scroller etc > (example > http://www.gobananas.com/party-with-the-club-class-bus-edinburgh.html > ) > > We have started experiencing problems where tagged images are not > being returned by the query. A common scenario is that the image will > display for a few days and then stop being returned. > > It seems as though repulbishing the album in picasaweb as public > solves the problem. Another solution is to add an extra tag which can > be random and which then changes the status of the image in some way > so it is returned in the query. > > To be clear: the tags remain on the image throughout the process. It > is simply that the image stops being returned by API query and also by > the picasaweb search. > > The tags we use are esoteric like PR1212134 so they are easy to spot > if you search for them. > > IS this something other people are experiencing or is this part of the > same 2013 tag problem? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Picasa Web Albums API" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-picasa-data-api. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
