API & Comments

xxclixxx

Was just thinking, it'd be great if we could pull the comments from the API. And/or post them too. That way if I put the photo on my main site and people want to comment, all the comments for the photo are in every place rather than some in multiple.

darryl

For reading, it's easy. Use the RSS feed:

http://wiki.smugmug.net/display/SmugMug/Feeds+Examples

http://api.smugmug.com/hack/feed.mg?Type=usercomments&Data=YOURNAME&format=rss200"

You can probably even add ImageCount=xx to get more....

Well, that's the recent comments, not for a given photo. I suppose you could monitor the recent comments daily, and create your own database of per-image comments. Bleh.

And alas, nothing for setting comments, although it's probably possible to hack it, because it's easy enough to delete an individual comment with a call like:

http://$nickname.smugmug.com/comment.mg?CommentID=$commentid&delete=true

(Assuming you've already logged into your site and have the appropriate cookie, etc.)

But screen-scraping is bad bad bad. Hey DevBobo, can you please add access to Comments to the always-growing list of feature requests to the API?

xxclixxx

Thanks! Reading the comments is better than nothing.

infernoblitz

I second the request for setting comments through the API. Until then, it looks like there's a way to get comments on images

http://wiki.smugmug.net/display/API/show+1.2.2?method=smugmug.images.comments.get

devbobo

yes, you can get comments on images and albums now.

Adding &Extras=Comments to smugmug.images.get will return all image comments.

Adding comments is coming...but I thought it would be better to release reading while I worked on some other stuff.