Can we store the photos we pull to our site using Google Places - we essentially pull the info about a hotel, for example, including the picture made available through the Google Places API, and then allow users on our site to view the info, including the pictures - can these pictures that were pulled remain on our server?
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I'm currently working on a website which allows reports to be generated and saved as a Google Slide via the Google Slides API. The reports are generated using a template slide which contains placeholder shapes which are then populated with graphs and text.
My problem is that the template Google Slides file needs to be accessible to any user who decides to generate a report. But...
Google Drive can only be authorized via oAuth. Users coming to the site will not be able to authenticate any drive which does not belong to them
The template cannot be stored in the codebase as the slides API is only able to interact with files stored in the cloud AND it is not possible to download a file in 'Google Slides format'
It could be possible to store the template on Google Cloud Storage, but it is not possible to import a Slides file without converting it to another format. Attempting to convert the file once it has been uploaded does not produce a new slides file within the cloud storage
Is there anywhere I could store my Google Slides template and have it accessible to my application at all times so that it may generate reports based on that template?
I created a coordinates website that shows different information about a location. I pull this information from API's.
One of the things I show on the website are location photos that I pull from Google Places API.
Now I've received an e-mail from a professional photographer who says I'm infringing on his copyrights by showing the photo on my page. I've told him I pull the photo from Google Places and that he should contact Google if he doesn't want his photo on sites.
His reply is that I as website owner are responsible for the content and that Google has nothing to do with it. I find this very hard to believe...
What do you guys think? Any advice? Can ask Google for help?
The Google Places API has this to say about attribution:
Photos returned by the Photo service are sourced from a variety of locations, including business owners and Google+ users contributed photos. In most cases, these photos can be used without attribution, or will have the required attribution included as a part of the image. However, if the returned photo element includes a value in the html_attributions field, you will have to include the additional attribution in your application wherever you display the image.
Did the photo in question have anything in the html_attributions field? If not, then you're correct that the owner needs to talk to Google. If it does and you didn't display it, then you are in breach of copyright.
I am currently trying to generate a url to link to a public Google Photos gallery. I am aware from some research that all calls regarding Google Photos go through the Picasa API. So, by running file_get_contents on the following URL, I have retrieved a full listing of all public albums on my user account
http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/<USERNAME>?alt=json&kind=album&hl=en_US
This works perfectly and includes links to the gallery in Picasa. However, I would much prefer to be able to generate a link to the corresponding Google Photos gallery. On sharing Google photos, a shortened url is generated, like
https://goo.gl/photos/code
I was wondering if there was any possible way, given the album ID from the API call that such a link could be generated
Previous questions on this subject haven't generated much response unfortunately - is anyone aware of any such Google link generation capability?
I'm building a web site using Ruby Volt for a publication. I'd like users to be able to upload images that will be stored on Google Drive. The Google Drive will belong to the publication, not to the site users who are uploading the images. If possible, I'd like the fact the images are being stored on Google Drive to be transparent to the site users.
The publication staff will access the images via their Google Drive.
My head is swimming with the Google documentation… Does anybody know if this is doable? If it is can you offer any pointers to example code or suggestions on how to get started?
So I can't help with the google drive API side of things, but in Volt, you can use a HttpController to post a input type="field". In the http controller, you can call params._field_name to get the data from rest. That will provide a tempfile you can copy out. Once I get time I'll make a demo app for file upload.
I have noticed that the satellite view returned by the js API V3 for a given location is older than the image set seen on the Google web site for the same location. My assumption is based on the fact that in the API image there is a green field whereas on Google maps site there are new houses.
Anything I can do to make sure that latest images are returned by the API calls?