The latest release of the Picasa Web Albums data API has added a number of new features that you have been asking for:
- Community Search: You can now search through the photos of all public, searchable albums using the
qquery parameter. Example:http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/all?q=penguinwill find all penguin pictures. - Retrieving a user's recently uploaded photos: You can retrieve the photos recently uploaded by a user. Example: http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/userID?kind=photo&max-results=25 will retrieve the 25 photos most recently uploaded by userID.
- Retrieving recently added comments for a particular user: You can retrieve the comments recently added to photos owned by a particular user. Example: http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/userID?kind=comment&max-results=25 will retrieve the 25 comments most recently added to photos owned by userID.
- Searching a user's photos: You can search through all the photos belonging to a single user using the
qquery parameter. Example:http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/userID?kind=photo&q=penguin
will find all photos owned by user userID which contain the word 'penguin' in the title, caption or tag. - Filtering by tag: You can filter photos in the album feed or user feed based upon tags using the new
tagquery parameter. Example: http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/userID?kind=photo&tag=dog will find all photos owned by the user userID which are tagged with 'dog'. - Uploading non-JPEG photos: You can now upload bmp, gif, jpeg, and png photos via the API.
- 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=dquery parameter and value This will return a feed where themedia:contentelements reference the original downloadable image.
We hope you enjoy these new features. We welcome your continued feedback and feature requests in the developer forum.
