Searching a specific album

Freeheelvrmnt · June 15, 2014

In reading on the API 2.0 thread I found this http://api.smugmug.com/api/v2/image!search

Is it possible to restrict the search to a particular folder? I have events that where I tag competitors by bib number and allow them to search for themselves. Obviously bib numbers repeat across events so when I search I need to restrict to a specific event. I'd like to play with the api to do this instead of my current solution.

Any advice?

Thanks!

thenickdude · June 15, 2014

One easy way to achieve that would be to tag all the images in that gallery with the same keyword (like the name of the event), then you can just search for images that have both the event keyword and the bib number. (You can even create a custom keyword search box that'll include the event keyword in the search automatically).

With the v2 search API, that would be something like:

http://api.smugmug.com/api/v2/user/MikeJulianaPhotography!imagesearch?q=may+day%2C+men&Order=Newest

I don't think there is a folder or album-specific keyword search capability in the v2 API.

There is a gallery/folder-specific search capability in the v1.4.0 API, which is the SM internal API that the search content block uses for its "search scope" capability. So let's say I want to search only within this folder:

http://www.sherlockphotography.org/Anime-figures/Anime-figure-collection/

I check out the sourcecode and find the nodeId "jT2v3" for this folder (the nodeId comes from the "n-jT2v3" part you would see appearing on the end of the URL if the folder/gallery was unlisted). Now I can use that nodeId in my query to the 1.4.0 API:

http://www.sherlockphotography.org/services/api/json/1.4.0/?Query=gokou+ruri&Start=0&Facets=%7B%22imagetype%22%3A%5B%221%22%5D%7D&NickName=n-sherlock&Size=60&SortBy=popular&ScopeType=node&ScopeValue=jT2v3&method=rpc.search.images

Freeheelvrmnt · June 16, 2014

Thanks for the super helpful and specific reply! It sounds like there are a couple of straightforward options. Time to play around.

Searching a specific album

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