All keywords

[pth]

I think I know the answer to this question, but I want to be wrong :-)

Is there an API method to collect all keywords (better yet with their usage count)? There is a tag cloud on the homepage, so this data is available, but shy of collecting all albums and their photos, I do not see how I could gather this information with the API.

Thanks
pth

[lildude]

Originally Posted by pth

I think I know the answer to this question, but I want to be wrong :-)

Is there an API method to collect all keywords (better yet with their usage count)? There is a tag cloud on the homepage, so this data is available, but shy of collecting all albums and their photos, I do not see how I could gather this information with the API.

Thanks
pth

Unfortunately not. You'd have to create your own function that effectively trawled through all the images/albums and grab the keywords. This would be very painful and time consuming so I wouldn't recommend it.

[bziclix]

Originally Posted by lildude

Unfortunately not. You'd have to create your own function that effectively trawled through all the images/albums and grab the keywords. This would be very painful and time consuming so I wouldn't recommend it.

I decided to write such a function for pysmug and it turned out to be both easy and fast if you use batchables. I can build a dictionary of {keyword:count} for over 80 galleries and 3200+ photos in less than 30 seconds -- depends on your definition of fast of course. The function takes an optional keyword parsing function since keywords appear to be variable in format.

I added this for the 0.5 release of pysmug, but it will work perfectly well with version 0.4 (code here, look for "tagcloud").

Use it like this:

>>> import pysmug
>>> m = pysmug.login(klass=pysmug.SmugTool)
>>> print m.tagcloud()

thanks, brian

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Brian Zimmer / bzimmer.ziclix.com

[bziclix]

I added a slightly longer write-up here detailing the performance of pysmug for generating the tag cloud.

thanks, brian

[darryl]

Wouldn't it be faster to just scrape your Keywords page?

http://yoursite.smugmug.com/keyword/

--Darryl

[bziclix]

Originally Posted by darryl

Wouldn't it be faster to just scrape your Keywords page?

http://yoursite.smugmug.com/keyword/

--Darryl

Why scrape when you can get reliable structured content from the API?