I've finally removed over 100 photo albums that were using Google's API for a decade, and am now using a home-grown solution. Thankful I don't have to wait any longer, and will never use their API again even if it does return. What a hassle. May you all find the solution your are looking for as well, people!
On Thursday, February 9, 2017 at 8:44:32 AM UTC-8, Pavol Maškara wrote: > > I agree with Christophe > should we switch to another service? > I don´t care you shut down picasa and picasa api but why there is not > released API for google photos or something ... > I never thought that facebook would be better at something than you ... > but now I see it as better choice for photos,pages,events... I was so happy > about google plus when its started, now I feel bad for you google > > On Thursday, February 9, 2017 at 5:23:59 PM UTC+1, Christophe Brisbois > wrote: >> >> Dear Picasa Team, >> >> Nice to see some activity ;-) >> >> So, now in v3, it's no more possible to create an album or to change the >> properties of an existing one. >> >> Actually, this was the only possibility to set the visibility of an new >> album to "public" or "private", and so to be able to access a Google Photos >> album. >> >> *Here's the situation:* >> 1) albums created in Google Photos can not be accessed with the API, >> because the visibility cannot be changed to "public" directly in Google >> Photos >> 2) the API does not allow anymore to change the visibility to "public" >> 3) so, at this time, it seems it's no more possible to create an album >> and access it with the API >> >> => no more access to new albums/photos using the API = what is the >> purpose of the current Picasa API? >> *Should we (developers) consider that the service is only provided for >> historical reasons and that we should switch to another provider?* >> >> *Did I miss something?* >> >> Cheers, >> Chris >> >> >> Le jeudi 9 février 2017 10:13:17 UTC+1, Google Picasa Web Albums API a >> écrit : >>> >>> Hey all, >>> >>> The v3 API changes are being rolled out and many of the old Picasa Web >>> features are being removed, as you mentioned. >>> >>> https://developers.google.com/picasa-web/docs/3.0/releasenotes >>> >>> Unfortunately, the v3 API doesn't add new Google Photos features or >>> support. For now we don't plan on adding support for all of the Google >>> Photos features in the Picasa Web API. >>> >>> See "How is the Picasa Web Albums Data API related to Google Photos?" >>> https://developers.google.com/picasa-web/faq >>> >>> As the v3 changes are rolling out, we're actively looking for situations >>> where functionality that we aren't planning to turn down is impacted. >>> Expect replies on some of the other threads on this forum soon. >>> >>> The Picasa Team >>> >> -- 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 google-picasa-data-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-picasa-data-api@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-picasa-data-api. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
