Reference Guide - Picasa Web Albums Data API. This document provides detailed reference documentation for the Picasa Web Albums Data API.
It covers only the protocol; for programming-language-specific reference documentation, see the client libraries page. Contents.
Developer's Guide: PHP - Picasa Web Albums Data API. Picasa Web Albums allows client applications to view and update albums, photos, and comments in the form of Google Data API feeds.
Your client application can use the Picasa Web Albums Data API to create new albums, upload photos, add comments, edit or delete existing albums, photos, and comments, and query for items that match particular criteria. In addition to providing some background on the capabilities of the Picasa Web Albums Data API, this guide provides examples for interacting with the API using the PHP client library. If you're interested in understanding more about the underlying protocol used by the PHP client library to interact with the Picasa Web Albums API, please see the protocol guide. This document is intended for programmers who want to write client applications using the Google Data PHP client library that can interact with Picasa Web Albums.
Picasa Web Albums uses Google Accounts for authentication, so if you have a Google account you are all set. Develop PHP applications with Picasa Web Albums. Introduction As someone who takes a lot of digital photos, I'm no stranger to disk clutter—my computer has hundreds of megabytes of old photos, most with sketchy or non-existent labels.
Only a few months ago, when I finally tried out Google's free Picasa photo management software, some method began to emerge from the madness. But Picasa is more than just a tool you can download off the Web—it also exists online, as a free photo-sharing site called Picasa Web Albums. At the Web site, users can upload photos and videos, categorize them into albums, tag them with keywords for easy searching, and share them with others.