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Upload images to blogger.
country flaguser name
United States
2007-10-21 03:22:57
Hello all.

I'm trying to add a feature "Post image to
Blogger" in my web
appication. I've realized that the post itself can not
contain images,
just links to them. Those links can lead to picasa web
album, for
example, or to any other server at all.

The latest option isn't a case for me, because I didn't plan
to store
user images on my servers. Also I wouldn't like posted
photos be
dependent on my (not yet very reliable) servers.

Storing photos on the picasa seems not a bad option, but:
1) if a user already has a PWA account, they may not want to
see
blogger related
2) else, if a user doesn't have a PWA account, they will
need to set
up it too. It's an additional step that I would like to
avoid.

And... the most tasty option -- to store photos on the
blogger itself,
like it's done when you add a photo to a post when you're on
the
blogger itself. I have an evidence that this is possible:
such photos
have links similar to
http://bp2.blogger.c
om/_COpHFIvf8GM/Ror8ZmFYzTI/AAAAAAAAADo/5zNOPSWc8Os/s1600-h/
IMG_0001.JPG
.
But I couldn't find any info about this in the blogger api
documentation, nor by searching for this feature in google.
Does
anyone have an idea? Thanks in advance.

PS: I understand that I can reverse engineer the online
upload
mechanism, but this is surely undesirable.


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Re: Upload images to blogger.
country flaguser name
United States
2007-10-22 19:43:10
Pete, thanks for your reply.

I've done some more tests, and results are interesting 

I've checked my not public gallery and it really showed me
that
there's a new private album named like my blog where I
posted an image
to.
The album cover was marked with the blogger logo. Ok, I see
now that
it really uses PWA for storing images.

But PWA is used in some more close manner. Because when I
switched to
my secondary google account, successfully uploaded a new
photo to a
blog, and came to PWA, PWA brought me to a TOS agreement
page. So I
consider my picasaweb account, that had already stored some
images,
wasn't set up completely. I consider this way a bit more
handy than
requiring users to setup their PWA accounts.

So is there a way to upload to the PWA in the same manner,
so PWA
isn't required to be set up and albums would be
automatically be
marked as dedicated to blogger? Or... when such API is going
to be
bublished? If it's not too much time, I could rather
wait...

On 23 ΟΛΤ, 02:57, "Pete Hopkins  "
<phopk...google.com> wrote:
> On 10/21/07, Wicked <Alexey.Kupersht...gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hello all.
>
> > I'm trying to add a feature "Post image to
Blogger" in my web
> > appication. I've realized that the post itself can
not contain images,
> > just links to them. Those links can lead to picasa
web album, for
> > example, or to any other server at all.
>
> > The latest option isn't a case for me, because I
didn't plan to store
> > user images on my servers. Also I wouldn't like
posted photos be
> > dependent on my (not yet very reliable) servers.
>
> > Storing photos on the picasa seems not a bad
option, but:
> > 1) if a user already has a PWA account, they may
not want to see
> > blogger related
> > 2) else, if a user doesn't have a PWA account,
they will need to set
> > up it too. It's an additional step that I would
like to avoid.
>
> > And... the most tasty option -- to store photos on
the blogger itself,
> > like it's done when you add a photo to a post when
you're on the
> > blogger itself. I have an evidence that this is
possible: such photos
> > have links similar to
> >http://bp2.blogger.com/_COpHFIvf8GM/Ror8
ZmFYzTI/AAAAAAAAADo/5zNOPSWc8...
> > .
> > But I couldn't find any info about this in the
blogger api
> > documentation, nor by searching for this feature
in google. Does
> > anyone have an idea? Thanks in advance.
>
> > PS: I understand that I can reverse engineer the
online upload
> > mechanism, but this is surely undesirable.
>
> Uploading to Picasa Web Albums is your best bet right
now.
>
> Blogger actually uploads to Picasa Web Albums on the
backend. The
> "bp2" URLs are actually Picasa Web Albums
under a different host name.
>
> If you've uploaded photos to a Blogger blog, you can
log in to Picasa
> Web Albums and see them all in an album.
>
> -- Pete


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