Open Photo API / Python Library

OpenPhoto, a photo service for the masses

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Installation

python setup.py install

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Credentials

For full access to your photos, you need to create the following config file in ~/.config/openphoto/default

# ~/.config/openphoto/default
host = your.host.com
consumerKey = your_consumer_key
consumerSecret = your_consumer_secret
token = your_access_token
tokenSecret = your_access_token_secret

The config_file switch lets you specify a different config file.

To get your credentials:

• Log into your Trovebox site
• Click the arrow on the top-right and select 'Settings'
• Click the 'Create a new app' button
• Click the 'View' link beside the newly created app

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How to use the library

You can use the library in one of two ways:

• Direct GET/POST calls to the server
• Access via Python classes/methods

Direct GET/POST:

from openphoto import OpenPhoto
client = OpenPhoto()
resp = client.get("/photos/list.json")
resp = client.post("/photo/62/update.json", tags=["tag1", "tag2"])

Python classes/methods

from openphoto import OpenPhoto
client = OpenPhoto()
photos = client.photos.list()
photos[0].update(tags=["tag1", "tag2"])
print(photos[0].tags)

The OpenPhoto Python class hierarchy mirrors the OpenPhoto API endpoint layout. For example, the calls in the example above use the following API endpoints:

• client.photos.list() -> /photos/list.json
• photos[0].update() -> /photo/<id>/update.json

API Versioning

It may be useful to lock your application to a particular version of the OpenPhoto API. This ensures that future API updates won't cause unexpected breakages.

To do this, add the optional api_version parameter when creating the client object:

from openphoto import OpenPhoto
client = OpenPhoto(api_version=2)

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Using from the command line

You can run commands to the OpenPhoto API from your shell!

These are the options you can pass to the shell program:

--help         # Display help text
-c config_file # Either the name of a config file in ~/.config/openphoto/ or a full path to a config file
-h hostname    # Overrides config_file for unauthenticated API calls
-e endpoint    # [default=/photos/list.json]
-X method      # [default=GET]
-F params      # e.g. -F 'title=my title' -F 'tags=mytag1,mytag2'
-p             # Pretty print the json
-v             # Verbose output

Command line examples

# Upload a public photo to the host specified in ~/.config/openphoto/default
openphoto -p -X POST -e /photo/upload.json -F 'photo=@/path/to/photo/jpg' -F 'permission=1'
{
    "code":201,
    "message":"Photo 1eo uploaded successfully",
    "result":{
        "actor":"user@example.com",
        "albums":[],
        ...
        ...
    }
}

# Get a thumbnail URL from current.openphoto.me (unauthenticated access)
openphoto -h current.openphoto.me -p -e /photo/62/view.json -F 'returnSizes=20x20'
{
    "code":200,
    "message":"Photo 62",
    "result":{
        "actor":"",
        "albums":[
            "1"
        ],
        ...
        ...
        "path20x20":"http://current.openphoto.me/photo/62/create/36c0a/20x20.jpg",
        "pathBase":"http://awesomeness.openphoto.me/base/201203/7ae997-Boracay-Philippines-007.jpg",
        "permission":"1",
        "photo20x20":[
            "http://current.openphoto.me/photo/62/create/36c0a/20x20.jpg",
            13,
            20
        ],
        ...
        ...
    }
}