Getting Images from a specific album

kujain

Using the API, I am trying to get images from a specific album (i only have its url). But for that, i need its albumkey and albumID. Using album_get() I can loop through all albums until i can find the correct key by the title, but this seems very time consuming and resource intensive (I have more than 400 albums now and I keep getting timeouts when I do this). Is there a quicker way to query an album when I know its title or url?

Thanks very much!

kusi

If your 400 albums are in one folder, you only need to call one GET on the parent folder node in order to retrieve a list of all child albums. You get all children (including album names) in one go. If you have nested folders, then you need a GET for each level in the folder hierarchy

kujain

Thanks Kusi!
I have now moved on to API v2 and it has an awesome endpoint to get an album from its uri: urlpathlookup
So I am now able to do this directly from its url eg.
/user/<username>!urlpathlookup?urlpath=<album_path_name>

SO much cleaner and more efficient!