Can I do this with API

farbodr

I want to create a private website for my own use where users can see on a calendar the days with photos associated with that day. Then they would click on that day and will be presented with a thumbnail of photos. I have done this with Flickr api but I don't like the fact that with Flickr users have to be authenticated via a popup. I want to be able to log into my account behind the scene. It looks like I can do this with SmugMug API. Flickr has a search method that takes a 'date taken' param. Does SmugMug api have similar method?

TIA,
Fred

rkalla

farbodr wrote:

I want to create a private website for my own use where users can see on a calendar the days with photos associated with that day. Then they would click on that day and will be presented with a thumbnail of photos. I have done this with Flickr api but I don't like the fact that with Flickr users have to be authenticated via a popup. I want to be able to log into my account behind the scene. It looks like I can do this with SmugMug API. Flickr has a search method that takes a 'date taken' param. Does SmugMug api have similar method?

TIA,
Fred

Fred, you can't do exactly this using the SM API from what I remember, but you do have access to the EXIF data to check the date taken... then again, requesting *all* the images then filitering them yourself before showing them to the user on the calendar is too time consuming to do on the fly, maybe you have a background process that does it and refreshes a cache of a list of photos with those date?

I think this is a really cool use-case to justify getting this support directly into SmugMug though, thanks for sharing it.

iotashan

I'd go with the cached list of images, too. Just pull the date taken out of the exif, and you're golden.

farbodr

Thanks all for your reply. I'm surprised that there is no such API method for 'date taken' search since Smugmug supports time series.

I think I will try the cache idea. I may create a yet another uploader that creates the cache entry during the upoad.

Fred

mhilbush

farbodr wrote:

I want to create a private website for my own use where users can see on a calendar the days with photos associated with that day. Then they would click on that day and will be presented with a thumbnail of photos. I have done this with Flickr api but I don't like the fact that with Flickr users have to be authenticated via a popup. I want to be able to log into my account behind the scene. It looks like I can do this with SmugMug API. Flickr has a search method that takes a 'date taken' param. Does SmugMug api have similar method?

TIA,
Fred

Thanks for the reminder!

I requested a search method a VERY long time ago. I just updated the request to include a date or date range criteria, as you suggested in your post.

Here's a link to the enhancement request:
http://smugmug.jot.com/BugReporter/SmugBug11

Mark

darryl

farbodr wrote:

I want to create a private website for my own use where users can see on a calendar the days with photos associated with that day. Then they would click on that day and will be presented with a thumbnail of photos. I have done this with Flickr api but I don't like the fact that with Flickr users have to be authenticated via a popup. I want to be able to log into my account behind the scene. It looks like I can do this with SmugMug API. Flickr has a search method that takes a 'date taken' param. Does SmugMug api have similar method?

You could hack it with some scraping. Go to your Control Panel -> Home Page and set your Photo Timeline to Show by: date taken.

Then go to a URL like: http://darryl.smugmug.com/date/2007-11-09/2007-11-09/

Select All Thumbs style.

Start scrapin' <div class="photo"> like crazy. :-}

Heh. This is how my first Perl album downloading script worked.

Bummer that the Template Change Hack doesn't work anymore. But since you're programming it, I think you could just do another get of the page with TemplateID=7 and origin=template_origin. Or pre-set a .smugmug.com Template cookie with the value of 7.

--Darryl