Open Photo API / Photo Upload
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#### OpenPhoto, a photo service for the masses

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### Purpose of the Photo Upload API

This API is used to upload a new photo for a user. 

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### Endpoint and parameters

_Authentication: required_

    POST /photo/upload.json

1.  photo (required), The photo to be uploaded.
    * This can be the binary photo in multipart/formdata
    * This can be the base64 encoded value of the photo in application/x-www-form-urlencoded
1.  tags (optional), _i.e. dog,cat_ - A comma delimited string of alpha numeric strings.
1.  latitude (optional), _i.e. 34.76_ - A decimal representation of latitude.
1.  longitude (optional), _i.e. -87.45_ - A decimal representation of longitude.
1.  returnOptions (optional), _i.e. 300x300xBW_ - A string instructing a specific version of the photo to be autogenerated.
    The url will be present in the response as _requestedUrl_.
    * 300x300 - A photo which maintains aspect ratio and fits inside a 300x300 square
    * 1024x768xCR - A photo that's exactly 1024x768 pixels cropped to the center in an optimized manner
    * 160x90xBWxCR - A photo that's cropped exactly to 160x90 in greyscale (black and white)

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### Example

#### Command line curl

    curl -F 'photo=@/path/to/photo.jpg' -F 'tags=dog,cat' http://jmathai.openphoto.me/photo/upload.json

#### PHP

    $ch = curl_init('http://jmathai.openphoto.me/photo/upload.json');
    curl_setopt(
      $ch, 
      CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 
      array('photo' => '@/path/to/photo.jpg', 'tags' => 'dog,cat', returnOptions' => '300x300')
    );
    curl_exec($ch);

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### Response

The response is a [Photo][Photo] object.

    {
      "message":"Photo 8i uploaded successfully",
      "code":200,
      "result":{
         "tags":[
            "dog",
            "cat"
         ],
         "pathBase":"\/base\/201107\/1311053366-huge.jpg",
         "appId":"opme",
         "host":"testjmathai1.s3.amazonaws.com",
         "dateUploadedMonth":"07",
         "status":"1",
         "hash":"6d7a9b0af31073a76ff2e79ee44b5c4951671fa2",
         "width":"4288",
         "dateTakenMonth":"07",
         "dateTakenDay":"03",
         "permission":"0",
         "pathOriginal":"\/original\/201107\/1311053366-huge.jpg",
         "exifCameraMake":"NIKON CORPORATION",
         "size":"5595",
         "dateTaken":"1309707719",
         "height":"2848",
         "views":"0",
         "dateUploadedYear":"2011",
         "dateTakenYear":"2011",
         "creativeCommons":"BY-NC",
         "dateUploadedDay":"18",
         "dateUploaded":"1311053403",
         "exifCameraModel":"NIKON D90",
         "longitude":"-89.24",
         "latitude":"37.65",
         "path300x300":"\/custom\/201107\/1311053366-huge_300x300.jpg",
         "id":"8i",
         "requestedUrl":"\/custom\/201107\/1311053366-huge_300x300.jpg"
      }
    }

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### Specification

#### Content type multipart/formdata

Preferred. You can post to this API using [multipart/formdata][multipart].

    POST /photo/upload.json HTTP/1.1
    Host: jmathai.openphoto.me
    Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----------------SOMERANDOMSEPARATOR    
    -----------------------------SOMERANDOMSEPARATOR
    Content-Disposition: form-data; name="tags"
    disneyland,epcotcenter
    -----------------------------SOMERANDOMSEPARATOR
    Content-Disposition: form-data; name="longitude"
    123.456
    -----------------------------SOMERANDOMSEPARATOR
    Content-Disposition: form-data; name="latitude"
    135.246
    -----------------------------SOMERANDOMSEPARATOR
    Content-Disposition: form-data; name="photo";
    filename="/path/to/your/photo.jpg"
    Content-Type: image/gif

    {your_binary_content_here}
    -----------------------------SOMERANDOMSEPARATOR--

#### Content type application/x-www-form-urlencoded

You can post to this API using [application/x-www-form-urlencoded][urlencoded] and base64 encoding the photo.


    POST /photo/upload.json HTTP/1.1
    Host: jmathai.openphoto.me

    photo=base64_encoded_string_representation_of_your_photo

[multipart]: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.13.4.2
[urlencoded]: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.13.4.1
[Photo]: https://github.com/openphoto/frontend/blob/master/documentation/schemas/Photo.markdown