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Added field weight(times the tag is used) to the Tag Object. Added field credit to the Photo Object. Added field author to the Photo Object.

PicasaWebAlbums

Gem for accessing photos and albums from Picasa Web Albums

Installation

gem install picasawebalbums

Rails/Application Integration

Add one of the below lines to the Gemfile:

• gem 'picasawebalbums, :require => 'PicasaWebAlbums'
• gem 'picasawebalbums', :require => 'PicasaWebAlbums', :git => '[email protected]:mkraft/PicasaWebAlbums.git'

Then run bundle install

Usage

Print the title of all albums

repo = PicasaWebAlbums.get_repository('[email protected]', 'somepassword')
albums = repo.get_all_albums
albums.each { |album| puts album.title }

Print the URL of each photo in the album titled "Big Boy"

repo = PicasaWebAlbums.get_repository('[email protected]', 'somepassword')
album = repo.get_album_by_title("Big Boy")
photos = repo.get_photos_by_album_id(album.id)
photos.each { |photo| puts photo.url }

Get photos with specific tags

repo = PicasaWebAlbums.get_repository('[email protected]', 'somepassword')
photos = repo.get_photos_by_tags(['cat', 'dog'])
# returns photos tagged with 'cat' AND 'dog'

Testing

To run integration tests, replace the values in /test/config/test_account.yml with known values from a real Picasa Web Albums account. The album can be any album in the account (no changes will be made to it). The photo must be from the chosen album. Run:

ruby test/tests.rb

Methods

Album(s)

• get_all_albums
• get_album_by_id(id)
• get_album_by_title(title)
• get_album_by_slug(slug)
• create_album(album)
• delete_album_by_id(album_id)

Photo(s)

• get_photos_by_album_id(album_id)
• get_photo_by_album_id_and_photo_id(album_id, photo_id)
• get_photos_by_tags(tags_array)

Tags

• get_all_tags
• get_tags_by_album_id(album_id)
• get_tags_by_album_id_and_photo_id(album_id, photo_id)

Domain Object Properties

Photo

• id
• url
• caption
• width
• height
• file_name
• thumb

Album

• id
• photos
• title
• slug
• date_created
• date_updated
• cover_photo_url
• description
• access
• number_of_photos
• number_of_comments
• number_of_photos_remaining
• total_bytes

Tag

• text

Additional Documentation

Additional documentation can be found on the rubydoc pages

Feature Requests and Bugs

Please feel free to log any bugs or feature requests in the Issues tab on Github.

Coming Down the Pike

The goal is to completely mirror all of the Picasa Web Albums API features including

• Update albums
• Create, Update, Delete photos
• Create, Update, Delete tags
• CRUD comments
• CRUD geolocation data

License

Copyright (C) 2011 Martin Kraft

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.