Monday, July 23, 2007

Picasa Web Api updates

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Google Data Api's posted a few updates today, a few of which I've really been looking forward to; Community Search, Retrieving a user's recently uploaded photos, Retrieving recently added comments for a particular user, Searching a user's photos, Filtering by tag, Uploading non-JPEG photos, Downloading the original photo.

(my fav) Downloading the original photo: You can now download the original photo, including all EXIF data. This is accomplished by retrieving the feed with the imgmax=d query parameter and value This will return a feed where the media:content elements reference the original downloadable image.

It's nice not having to use a backdoor for this anymore

2 comments:

Marcelino said...

I thought your readers might want to see an example of a site that uses that API for all its functionality: Brazil Pictures. See also the 'about' page for a technical discussion of the mashup.

Tim Broder said...

@Marcelino: Very well done =) One comment I can think of to make it better would be to change the event that scrolls the thumbnails to onMouseOver instead of clicking?