Collaborative Google Photos Album

  • Resolved WordPressGuru

    (@wordpressguru)


    8 years, 1 month ago

    Hi,
    First thanks for a great plugin. There is just this one thing…

    I’m using Google Photos in a collaborative way with my friends. I’ve created an album, invited them to join, and they can add there photos together with mine in the same album.

    Unfortunately when I use Photonic to embed the album on my page, I can only see the pictures I added my self. And that is a sad thing indeed.

    There should be no problem to authenticate my friends with the plugin the same way I have done (if Photonic enables me to authenticate more people at the same time), so I thought that if there isn’t a way to fetch all photos from the album (including the ones from my friends), there might be a way to fetch all photos from my album and all photos from my friends albums, and then merge them together? Preferably in descending order by date.

    Thanks for your time.
    Kindly Kristoffer

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  • Plugin Author Sayontan Sinha

    (@sayontan)

    I am not sure if the Google API supports this. It might – it is just not clear from reading the documentation.

    Basically Photonic lets you pull photos from other users if you have been authorized (see this), but the challenge with your use-case is that the same album has photos from multiple users, and Google’s API request format needs the user id.

    So, if you can help me with a few responses, that might help devise a plan:

    1. If you go to https://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/your-user-name/album/your-album-id?prettyprint=true, do you see the photos from other users?
    2. Now, if you go to https://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/your-user-name/album/your-album-id?access=visible&prettyprint=true, do you see the photos from other users?
    3. While the other contributors have added their photos to your album, have they also explicitly granted you permission to see those photos? If they have not, can you have them try it, then try seeing it in Photonic? An easy way to verify if they have given you access is to try this shortcode:
      [gallery type='picasa' user_id='other-contributor-id' album='other-contributor-album-id']

    If none of these calls shows you the photos, there isn’t much I can do to help, since Photonic relies on the API to provide the results. There is also no way to simply get an album without specifying the user id, otherwise that might have been one way to get around this.

    Authentication of multiple people is not practical because of various security reasons.

    Fetching photos from multiple albums in one go is not possible, however it is possible for you to invoke the shortcode multiple times with different user ids. If the shortcode in the 3rd point above works, you could try and use a similar shortcode for all users.

    But I am getting ahead of myself. Let us start with the 3 points listed and go from there.

    Plugin Author Sayontan Sinha

    (@sayontan)

    Hi,
    Do you still need help with this?

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