4 messages in com.googlegroups.google-picasa-data-api[PWA API] Re: Something about request...
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ETCETC16 Jul 2008 05:12 
Jeff Fisher (Google)16 Jul 2008 07:39 
Feris02 Aug 2008 10:43 
Jeff Fisher (Google)04 Aug 2008 11:18 
Subject:[PWA API] Re: Something about requesting images from the api
From:Jeff Fisher (Google) (api.@google.com)
Date:07/16/2008 07:39:16 AM
List:com.googlegroups.google-picasa-data-api

Hi,

The IDs of each photo entry should remain permanent, so you should be able to save the self link for each photo. I don't know about saving the links to the full image / image thumbnails however as those I feel could reasonably change. They probably will remain backwards- compatible for a while though, in case people embedded them directly in webpages.

Cheers, -Jeff

On Jul 16, 5:12 am, ETCETC <Ebra@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi there, we want to know an important thing about picasa API. we are accessing our pictures by requesting album feeds, saving them to xml, then parsing the file for the links in them to access each picture in each album. but we are not sure about one thing. As we have seen, the URL links to these pictures come to our xml file as if they are generated instantenously and temporarily. I am not implying they are, but they just "seem" like(by looking at the random looking numbers at the end of the picture names etc.) The question is, can we rely on these links? I mean, can we safely use these links and treat them as they are permanent and ensure that our clients or visitors wont face any dead links?(if the answers are "no", can you please tell us a better way to do all these things? please assume that it would be too hard for us to create new xml files for each user/visitor instance.)