How do get Smugmug API & SessionId

test.iwave

I am web site developer. I am using " Smugmug API ". I created API key "
xxxx ".
I am using that URL "
http://api.smugmug.com/services/api/json/1.2.2/?method=smugmug.albums.get&SessionID=xxxxx"
. I got the following error message "
{"stat":"fail","method":"smugmug.albums.get","code":18,"message":"invalid
API key"} ".
How do i solve this problem. Please help me..

pearsonartphoto

First of all, you probably don't want to publish your API key... You might consider deleting the key that you have and starting with a new one. Secondly, the flow is like this.

1) Get a session ID- Use smugmug.login.anonymously if you want to browse publicly avaliable images, or use one of the other login methods provided in the documentation. See the docs for the arguments.
2) Use the session ID that comes back from Smugmug there in every other command you send.

If you do that, it should work fine. Good luck!

test.iwave

Invalid user - Error
Dear,

Thanks you for you guidelines. I am using CURL function. I got the Invalid user error ( error code 4 ) . How do i solve that problem ?


[PHP]

$ch = curl_init() or die(curl_error());
$chs = curl_init() or die(curl_error());
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"http://api.smugmug.com/services/api/json/1.2.2/?APIKey=xxxxx&JSONCallback=jsonSmugmugApi&method=smugmug.login.anonymously");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$data1=curl_exec($ch) or die(curl_error());

$str = preg_replace("/([a-zA-Z0-9_]+?):/" , "\"$1\":", $data1); // fix variable names
$output = json_decode($str, true);
echo "<pre>";
var_dump($output);
echo "</pre>";
$sessionid = $output;

curl_setopt($chs, CURLOPT_URL,"http://api.smugmug.com/hack/json/1.2.0/?method=smugmug.albums.get&SessionID=".$sessionid."&SitePassword=observer1");
curl_setopt($chs, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$result_details =curl_exec($chs) or die(curl_error());
echo "<font color=black face=verdana size=3>".$result_details."</font>";
echo curl_error($chs);
curl_close($chs);
echo curl_error($ch);
curl_close($ch)


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devbobo

If you are logging in anonymously, there you have no user context, so if you call methods like smugmug.albums.get, you need to provide the NickName parameter.