API & Comments

xxclixxx · December 11, 2008

Was just thinking, it'd be great if we could pull the comments from the API. And/or post them too. That way if I put the photo on my main site and people want to comment, all the comments for the photo are in every place rather than some in multiple.

darryl · December 13, 2008

For reading, it's easy. Use the RSS feed:

http://wiki.smugmug.net/display/SmugMug/Feeds+Examples

http://api.smugmug.com/hack/feed.mg?Type=usercomments&Data=YOURNAME&format=rss200"

You can probably even add ImageCount=xx to get more....

Well, that's the recent comments, not for a given photo. I suppose you could monitor the recent comments daily, and create your own database of per-image comments. Bleh.

And alas, nothing for setting comments, although it's probably possible to hack it, because it's easy enough to delete an individual comment with a call like:

http://$nickname.smugmug.com/comment.mg?CommentID=$commentid&delete=true

(Assuming you've already logged into your site and have the appropriate cookie, etc.)

But screen-scraping is bad bad bad. Hey DevBobo, can you please add access to Comments to the always-growing list of feature requests to the API?

xxclixxx · February 3, 2009

Thanks! Reading the comments is better than nothing.

infernoblitz · February 3, 2010

I second the request for setting comments through the API. Until then, it looks like there's a way to get comments on images

http://wiki.smugmug.net/display/API/show+1.2.2?method=smugmug.images.comments.get

devbobo · February 3, 2010

yes, you can get comments on images and albums now.

Adding &Extras=Comments to smugmug.images.get will return all image comments.

Adding comments is coming...but I thought it would be better to release reading while I worked on some other stuff.