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.
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i wish to design an application that can detect plagiarism ( web based ) in all formats using Google search engine API.
what are the resources that i would be requiring for such an application.
Basically a user can upload a file and that file would be checked against various formats on the web . i have read that there are web crawlers but how exactly do we use them.
Is Google search appliance API the correct approach?
Also I have not used a Google API before so what would be the best way to start?
Thanks a lot
Maybe http://www.google.com/alerts will do? There are libraries with which you can do a single find, for example in Ruby that would be (at the first glance) a galerts gem. In Python a galerts package may help you to manage feeds. Other languages probably have similar libs. After that, parse result feeds by yourself.
I have a website for book reviews. I offer a link to the Amazon entry of the books. I discovered after a bit of research that the direct URL for Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" is:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=TITLE+AUTHOR+amazon&btnI=745
Which works magic because then I don't have to manually include the Amazon link in my database and directly links to the Amazon page (works 99.99% of the times).
I was wondering if there was an equivalent for images (whether Google or some alternative) to retrieve an image URL based on keywords only (for the purpose of getting the book cover image).
There's no such thing for Google Images, but you might be able to use another web service to do what you want. I noticed that when you're searching for a book, the first image result isn't always the cover of it. Sometimes it's a photo of the author, sometimes it's some image from book's review, so you can hardly rely on that.
It should not be hard to parse the amazon page and get the image and link but google has an API to google books that return all informations about a book in JSON format, you can try it online on the API Explorer (the cover are on the results too). Click here to see an example (click "Execute" to run it).
Unfortunately public Google search engine doesn't support that. You should use Custom Search API to implement such feature in your application. Alternatively use XGoogle (unofficial Python wrapper to Google Search services, see google_dl tool for example).
Other suggestions is to use:
YQL by Yahoo (see yql-tables repo at GitHub for examples).
Use alternative search engines.
E.g. In Wolfram Alpha you can type: "show image of laptop" and it'll give you the first popular picture, however you need to use Wolfram|Alpha APIs or some script (see this ChatBot for example) to pick up the direct link.
I would like to write a web app that uses Dropbox for cloud storage.
If I understand correctly, I should use the Restful API to achieve that.
This documentation exists and is quite good but being a newcomer to Restful API I would love to see and play with a simple example that works with this API.
My questions are:
Am I right to assume that Rest API is the way to go?
Is there a quick and easy example (Maybe a live example) to get me going?
Thanks!
as you tagged your question with "ajax", i presume you want to do this entirely client-side (except for some proxy-code to be able to make requests accross domains)? I haven't tried it out myself, but there's dropbox-js on google code which will at least give you some ideas (and if the Dropbox API didn't change too much since June 2010 it might even work out of the box)?
Update: there's no "download", but you can browse the source code of trunk here.
Here's a lengthy article on the matter
Some love for Javascript Applications with code samples, a demo etc.
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 am currently working on a CakePHP application that includes among other things a photo album that will be mainly maintained by an administrator.
I have now started to develop the Photo Album section of the site and was wondering about he following:
I know I have still to research into Windows Live Photo Gallery API
I am planning on using CakePHP Media Plugin to process my uploads and place each pictures in its corresponding folder.
However, what is the best approach to tackle this?
Should I create a Model/Controller with functions to handles this. For examples wluploads.php for the model and wluploads_controller.php. The model would then actsAs the Media Plugin.
Within the controller I would have actions like function upload(){, etc, to handle automatically/looped file uploads.
Is this a good approach. Can someone shed some light into some better approach?
Thank you very much!
You may find it easier (if you're comfortable with cakephp) just to create your own models/controllers and write the corresponding actions than using a plugin.
Should I create a Model/Controller with functions to handles this. For examples wluploads.php for the model and wluploads_controller.php. The model would then actsAs the
Media Plugin.
Within the controller I would have actions like function upload(){, etc, to handle automatically/looped file uploads.
Is this a good approach. Can someone shed some light into some better approach?
That is pretty much how I would do it - make a mode/controller with the relevant actions (upload_image etc) and post to the WL Photo Gallery API.