I would like to download Picasa album and photos using a program.
What should I do?
Have a look to Picasa Web Albums Data API.
There are many clients available in different languages such:
Java
.NET
PHP
Python
Objective-C
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Is it possible to use Social Plugins such as the Comments and Like plugins to display the comments and likes for a photo or album uploaded to Facebook?
I have tried various URLs for the HREF attribute (the photo source, the photo page, the graph URL, etc) and cannot get the plugin to display existing comments against the photo. Can someone suggest the correct URL (if any) that I should use?
I can get access to the list of comments using the graph API, however I would prefer to make use of the social plugins if possible.
Currently you can not use them in that manner. You can use the graph api to read and write comments, read and add albums and photos.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api
This is somewhat involved and requires knowledge of coding.
I personally have been working on a Feed for the wall, and for albums and have to say it was no easy task. https://apps.facebook.com/AnotherFeed
I need to give the possibility to embed youtube videos in a website I'm developing. The admin shoud be able to insert a youtube link in a form; the url will be stored in the database and then I have to embed it in a page.
I was trying to use this library: http://codeigniter.com/wiki/YouTube_API_for_CodeIgniter/revision/12072/
But using the getVideoEntry function I get this, and I don't really know what to do with it:
tag:youtube.com,2008:video:zol2MJf6XNE2009-01-14T17:21:57.000Z2011-09-01T11:36:39.000ZSyndication of this video was restricted by its owner.DominoRecordshttp://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/dominorecordsMusicDominoRecordsA video for 'My Girls' from Animal Collective's new album Merriweather Post Pavilion. Out now on Domino. Produced by: Knowmore Productions Animated by: Jon Vermilyea Edited/VFX by: Chad Von Nauanimal collective, my girls, domino, avey tare, panda bear, geologistDEAnimal Collective - My Girls (2009)widescreen2009-01-14T17:21:57.000Zzol2MJf6XNE
And anyway, to use it, I need the youtube video id. Is there an easy way to get it, which covers all possible variations of youtube urls?
CodeIgniter seems like overkill for merely embedding videos. The YouTube functionality on the page you linked is mostly a wrapper for the YouTube Data API (which allows for extracting information about YT users, channels, videos, etc. and facilitates procedural uploading of videos). Embedding videos is as easy as dropping some HTML on your page with the correct video ID.
Here's the best answer I've seen for getting the video ID from URLs.
How can you access the list of podcasts on the phone and play them in WP7?
Thanks
Currently there is no way you can query podcasts. The Genre won't tell you whether the content you are working with is a podcast or not - MediaLibrary will access the regular songs only and not additional content.
Hopefully the Mango update will carry some extensions for the Media Access API.
I was exploring the net to develop a sample for you. After BINGing for a while, suddenly I found this page which has the sample code readily available.
Windows Phone Starter Kit for Podcasts
I hope this helps :)
Not sure if there is a specific way to grab just podcasts, but if you know the title of the podcast you could use the Genre property of the Song class and then just iterate through the songs returned by the MediaLibrary
MediaLibrary library = new MediaLibrary();
SongCollection songs = library.Songs;
How can I tell programatically when an embedded/blogged flickr image is replaced with a "photo no longer available" image?
With Ruby if possible.
You could use the Flickr flickr.photos.getPerms API method with the photo ID extracted from any URLs you have.
http://www.flickr.com/services/api/flickr.photos.getPerms.html
This would tell you if the photo is missing or has had it's permissions changed to prevent public viewing.
Various Ruby wrappers are available for the Flickr API.
Currently iPhoto lets me upload pictures to Facebook and Flickr.
Is there any way (perhaps write a plugin) to extend this so that I can post photos to a different web service e.g. Picasa?
Its possible. If you are looking for a Picasa plugin, though, Google already has one (I haven't used it in the current version of iPhoto). If you are looking to develop your plugins, this article might help.