Need help getting started with the API

sackroyd

I am writing an iPad application. I need to access and display photos from a series of public gallery for a particular smugmug user.

In the past, I have gotten other apis to work by using tools to generate the initial http post strings. I try these in a browser, and then when I get them to work, I just shift over to putting that http url directly into my code. Then I just parse the response with a nice JSON parser I have.

As an example, the internet archive has a nice page where you can try out urls and see the responses:

http://www.archive.org/advancedsearch.php

So as an example, I wanted to get a list concerts by String Cheese Incident and see how many downloads there were - it helped me toi craft this url (which returns some excellent JSON).

http://www.archive.org/advancedsearch.php?q=collection%3A%28StringCheeseIncident%29&fl[]=avg_rating&fl[]=downloads&sort[]=&sort[]=&sort[]=&rows=50&page=1&indent=yes&output=json&callback=callback

So, for Smugmug, all I need to do is to craft the http messages to login anonymously, select a particular user, get a list of galleries and then get a list of photos in each gallery.

I have an API key.

So, I am trying to craft the url I need to login, and I am trying:

http://api.smugmug.com/services/api/json/1.2.2/smugmug.login.anonymously?APIKey=xxxxyyyyzzzz

So - I get nothing back, because clearly I do not know what I am doing.

Can anyone give me a little guidance about how to craft the right URL to use for logging in and then getting a list of galleries??

I really want to try in a browser first, so I understand how to build the correct url.

Thanks in advance.

Best,

Steve

devbobo

G'day Steve,

You need to pass the method as a query parameter like this (and also the callback if you want one)...

http://api.smugmug.com/services/api/json/1.2.2/?method=smugmug.login.anonymously&APIKey=xxxxyyyyzzzz&Callback=callback

Cheers,

David

sackroyd

Thanks
Thanks!!