No, there isn’t. But if the user you have signed in as is authorized to see albums of another user, you can show those.
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Ruriko
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So how do I authorize a user to see albums? How do I find out the other users album id/name?
So how do I authorize a user to see albums?
You mean within Google? Authorization is controlled by Google, not Photonic, and Google has made it a lot harder to do this by getting rid of Picasa.
My guess is that if you invite a user to join an album from within Google (not sharing a link, but inviting a user), that counts as authorizing the user. If user A has a Google album and invites user B to join, and subsequently user B uses Photonic and gets authenticated, B may be able to use Photonic & Helpers, pass in the user id of A, and list the albums of A.
Thread Starter
Ruriko
(@ruriko)
What’s the shortcode to show another users album? it’s a picasa album with limited, anyone with the link setting. I can’t change the album to public since the setting is no longer available.
See the examples in the “Private / Protected Albums” section of the documentation page – they talk about different privacy settings for albums.
Your first step is to go to Photonic → Helpers, put in the user id of the other user, and get the album id, privacy setting etc. Now, you have two options:
- You could leave all protection off like the first example there – try clicking on the “Maui” album, which was set up with the “Limited, anyone with the link”
setting of Picasa.
- You could, alternatively, protect the albums that have the above setting (like the second example), by passing the
protection='authkey' parameter, which will prompt the user to enter the authorization key. Try clicking on the “Maui” album there.
