Album API endpoint - retrieving Unlisted albums

robrob · August 2, 2018

I'm calling "api.smugmug.com/api/v2/user/XXXXXX!albums", and I'm getting a result that has albums that are public. How can I also get Unlisted albums?

giberti · August 3, 2018

You'll have to make an authenticated call using OAuth. This means passing an appropriate Authorization header. There are a lot of guides that can walk you through this process and there are helper libraries available for pretty much every modern language and request library. Note that we use OAuth 1.0a, which is very different than OAuth 2.0, so make sure you are working with the correct version.

robrob · August 5, 2018

Here's what I'm doing in python 2.7 (key/secret/token set up previously):

from rauth import OAuth1Service
from rauth import OAuth1Session
import json

service = OAuth1Service(
name='smugmug-list',
consumer_key=key,
consumer_secret=secret,
...
base_url='htt ps://api.smugmug.com/api/v2')

session = OAuth1Session(
service.consumer_key,
service.consumer_secret,
access_token=at,
access_token_secret=ats)

albums=json.loads(session.get(
"htt ps://api.smugmug.com/api/v2/user/XXXXXX!albums",
headers={'Accept': 'application/json'}).text).get('Response').get('Album')

How can I tell if the call is authenticated? I went through the whole thing about getting the numeric code and entering it on the page in the browser to get the token.

(Edit: url's above edited to allow forum to let me "post links")

mardy · December 29, 2018

Your code looks correct. To make sure that you are properly authenticated, try calling the api.smugmug.com/api/v2!authuser endpoint instead.

Album API endpoint - retrieving Unlisted albums

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