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Open letter to PhotoBucket, Open up your API

Posted At : January 22, 2007 1:33 PM | Posted By : Christopher Wigginton
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I've used both Flickr and PhotoBucket, both have their little nuances, Flickr has a better API and PhotoBucket is a little easier for social sites such as MySpace.  I think PhotoBucket could go a long way by either opening up their API or at the very least provide an RSS feed option based on user and tags.  Unfortunately, it's against the PhotoBucket TOS to try and dig, probe or discover how their authentication scheme works, even if you want to create an anonymous account to get a user's photostream.  There is a special version of Flock just for PhotoBucket, but I'd prefer some serverside functionality that I could access.

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Luke's Gravatar Hey Christopher, I just ran across your blog post while looking for something else and thought I'd let you know that we opened up our API a couple of months ago. You can visit http://photobucket.com/developer to get more information.
# Posted By Luke | 6/13/08 2:58 PM
Christopher Wigginton's Gravatar Thank's for the post Luke, I'll check it out.
# Posted By Christopher Wigginton | 6/13/08 4:12 PM
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