Photobucket API Offers Developers New Mashup Possibilities
Photobucket, an online picture and media distribution site, has launched a newborn covering planning programme (API) that allows developers and planning hobbyists to interact with the place and create mashups, scheme apps and widgets using Photobucket data.
Given that whatever of Photobucket’s members are reaching from MySpace and another ethnic meshwork sites, which are themselves actuation discover APIs, this should be beatific programme for users since it provides the tools needed to do more with your Photobucket images.
Photobucket competitor Flickr is artefact aweigh in the API game, but the newborn Photobucket API goes a goodish artefact toward approaching that gap.
The newborn API exposes meet most everything in Photobucket’s services including the knowledge to create, modify and admittance albums, upload newborn content, see finished open images and clutch metadata (titles, descriptions, tags, EXIF, etc.)
Photobucket also gets points for investment OAuth, a standard marker method that Flickr ease doesn’t support. One another rattling pleasant API method that Flickr doesn’t substance is a resize ikon choice which allows you to transfer in a difference of planned ikon dimensions and resize your photos.
The exclusive actual drawback to the API seems to be that a containerful of features are exclusive acquirable to “premium members” (I conceive the payment members taste refers to Photobucket favoring accounts, which are $4/month, with slightly cheaper options if you clear in advance).
More info most the newborn API crapper be institute at the newborn developer country of Photobucket.
As conception of the release, Photobucket has place up a newborn application gallery where you crapper analyse discover every the different tools developers hit created. For the start there are whatever featured apps from the likes of Adobe, Blogger, FotoFlexer and whatever more.
See Also:
- Photobucket Adds Bulk Upload Tools
- Photobucket Updates Search Plug-in
- MySpace Swallows Photobucket
- OAuth 1.0 Released — Logging In Gets Safer and Easier
Melted From: Wired: Compiler
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Tue, 2nd December 2008
