Re: [PWA API] An important update on the Picasa Web Albums Data API

[Teri Brooks]

I use the Picasaweb.com API for all of my clients' websites. So they just 
log in to picasaweb.com to upload their own photos which appear on their 
website immediately. Is that what's going away? If I have them download the 
Picasa desktop app instead, will they still be able to do this? If not, 
should I ask my clients to save copies of all their photos for when 
Picasaweb goes away? I guess I'll have to add their photos to their sites 
manually, which will be an enormous amount of work because so many of my 
clients use Picasaweb. I've used the Flickr API, and it's terribly slow to 
load on the page, so that's not even an option. And I don't think a Google 
Photos API exists. Picasaweb has been fantastic. My clients even have free 
phone apps where they can take pics with their phones, upload them in one 
click to Picasaweb, and they're on the website immediately. Is there 
anything else out there that's similar (besides Flickr)?


On Saturday, February 13, 2016 at 10:49:26 AM UTC-5, Mark Otway wrote:
>
> Will there be a new Google Photos API that we can use to perform the same 
> operations as we used to in Picasa, so we can update our apps etc? For 
> example, uploading and tagging photos? 
>
> If not, I’m going to have to move my photos to another platform (Flickr?) 
> and probably cancel my Google Drive storage plan (since the majority of the 
> 1.4TB that I have and pay for 
>
> On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 at 18:05 Google Picasa Web Albums API <
> google-pica...@googlegroups.com > wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> This morning we announced  an 
>> important update to Picasa that will take place over the coming months. 
>>
>> As part of this update, the Picasa Web Albums Data API will still support 
>> most functions, including reading photos, reading albums, reading photos in 
>> albums, and uploading new photos. Although these operations will continue 
>> to be supported and the protocol will remain the same, the content included 
>> in the responses and the operation behavior may change. 
>>
>> But, beginning on May 1, 2016, we’ll start rolling out changes to the API 
>> and no longer support the following functionality:
>>
>>
>>- 
>>
>>Flash support
>>- 
>>
>>Community search
>>- 
>>
>>Mutation operations other than uploads
>>- 
>>
>>All support for tags, comments, and contacts
>>
>>
>> We'll update the documentation on this site with specifics on the changes 
>> in March.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> The Picasa Team
>>
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[PWA API] Re: Is the Picasa Web Album API eventually going to go away?

[Teri Brooks]

I'm wondering the same thing. I have many web design clients who upload 
their own photos to their website using PicasaWeb, and several others for 
whom I am currently building websites and not sure if I should give them a 
heads up about this or not.


On Tuesday, February 23, 2016 at 8:09:48 PM UTC-5, Gregory Cowley wrote:
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>
> We currently integrate with the Picasa API to pull photos. But we're 
> unsure if this API will be continued with Google Photos... or will it 
> eventually be replaced with a new Google Photos API?
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