Open Photo API / Photo Upload

OpenPhoto, a photo service for the masses

Purpose of the Photo Upload API

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

Endpoint and parameters

Authentication: required

POST /photo/upload.json

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
tags (optional), i.e. dog,cat - A comma delimited string of alpha numeric strings.
latitude (optional), i.e. 34.76 - A decimal representation of latitude.
longitude (optional), i.e. -87.45 - A decimal representation of longitude.
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)

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);

Response

The response is a 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"
  }
}

Specification

Content type multipart/formdata

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

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 and base64 encoding the photo.

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

photo=base64_encoded_string_representation_of_your_photo

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