Questions tagged [picasa]

Picasa and Picasa Web Albums are both discontinued image organizers and image viewers. They were free to use, only a registered Google user was needed (Gmail or Google Apps). It let you manage pictures, categorize, tag and edit them and could synchronize them between the offline and online locations.

Picasa and Picasa Web Albums are both discontinued image organizers and image viewers. They were free to use, only a registered Google user was needed (Gmail or Google Apps). It let you manage pictures, categorize, tag and edit them and could synchronize them between the offline and online locations.

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validating Android's authToken on third party server

I'm writing an Android application, which uses AccountManager to get the token. From an android app I'm able to interact with Google Picasa - it works fine. What I would like to achieve is the following: send some text + authToken to my third party…
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Who knows what Picasa is programmed with?

I am looking for information on how Picasa was built as I would like to create a similar interface for my application. Information can include programming language,UI design, etc.
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Google Plus API & photos?

As I understand, there's no official G+ API for getting photos from albums. But I've figured out from here that Google Plus uses Picasa internally. My questions are: Is it possible to figure out only via G+ API Picasa userId? If yes, how can I do…
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Using OAuth2 with service account on gdata in python

I want to use data.photos.service.PhotosService to push and pull photos from Picasa. I got a service key file XXXXXXXX-privatekey.p12 from Google console and am now trying to authenticate using said key with google. The documentation for OAUTH2…
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How do I access google photos from my node js app?

I am writing an app to access a user's images on Google Photos. It seems that there is no 'official' API for Google Photos, however the images can be accessed via the Picasa Web Albums API. There are no official Google Picasa Web Albums API…
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How do we display a photo from Picasa java API?

Okay, it seems to be a stupid question, since we have this However, up to the moment, I can only succeed in displaying the thumbnails by using: PhotoEntry photo = //somehow I get the instance photo.getMediaThumbnails().get(0).getUrl() The biggest…
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Can Google Drive transfer files from Docs to Picasa?

I see you can use Google Picker to open Web Albums, but can you transfer from Drive to Picasa directly?
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Is it possible to get a person public profile photo using email alone, just like on the old G+/Picasa API?

Background In the past, and in the near future, it's possible, given a person's email, to get the profile photo, as shown here: Retrieving a user's public google/gmail picture It is even possible without any login to the network of G+, as shown…
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Chrome app Picasa identity: OAuth2 request failed: Service responded with error: 'bad client id: {0}'

I'm trying to authorize with chrome.identity.getAuthToken() to get token for Picasa web service. I couldn't find Picasa API in Google Developer Console and set its scope to "https://picasaweb.google.com/data/" oauth2 part of manifest.json. Picasa…
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javascript - Origin http://127.0.0.1 is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin

I'm making a simple gallery that takes the photos from a picasa account with html + javascript. First, gets the list of albums and then, for each album, gets the list of photos. The first query works fine, but the others returns this error in the…
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google hybrid protocol authentication issue

I've been successfully using OAuth1.0+OpenID Hybrid protocol for authentication with Google and thereafter using its services. However, I am facing an error for a specific user account. My current flow: Perform Discovery redirect user to provider…
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URL security - what is considered a secure unguessable URL?

I was just thinking about the URLs of my current web project. The user can access different resources, like images using a web site. The URLs look something like this…
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show picasa album in android app

I want to show picasa album in a grid view in my android app. I have the username/password + album id of the album from which i want to load the album. i tried implementing this via gdata library but eclipse is giving an error on line2 in following…
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Use of picasa api from Google Photos share link

I'm currently using the picasa API to display public and private albums of multiple users on my own webpage. To view a picasa album I need a userId, an albumId and optionally an authkey. I used to get these id's from picasaweb.google.com, but since…
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How can I find the actual size of a Google Photos library?

I am working on something to download and archive Google Photos libraries on to offline storage media. Before downloading, I'd like to calculate how much media will be needed to store the photos library but all I can get is a user's storage quota…
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