I don't know if it's legally possible but it is certainly technically possible. You can store your own username and password somewhere in your app and essentially log yourself in using the Client Login method every time someone wants to upload or view images. You would need a way to associate images with a person's post...I guess you would want to store album and photo id's in a database of your own.
You'll probably want to get an answer from someone at Google to determine whether or not it violates their T&Cs. It's sort of an outside-the-box application of Picasa so my guess is that it does, although you'd be paying them for storage so maybe they wouldn't care. Hope that helps, Cameron On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:58 PM, J <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > I'm having real issues as my community based site is getting to big > and as its free its hard for me to make enough money to get bigger > servers to host all the images my community uploads. > Basicly I run a clasifieds site where people give stuff away instead > of selling it. > > Can somebody tell me if the following is possible using the picasa web > albums API. > > What I'm hoping to is buy 1TB extra space for my picasa acount. > > Then build a script that every time a user uploads an image of an item > to my site its actually uploading it to my 1TB Picasa account without > them knowing in the background. > > Then when other people are looking around the site at peoples items > they are actually seeing images hosted by picasa. > > What would be even better is if on my picasa the images are set to > private so they are not searchable through picasa but only on my site. > So no one knows that its using picasa, Apart from the credit I would > give google in a document somewhere. > > Anyway would this type of thing work? as this would really save my > neck at the moment? > > J > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Picasa Web Albums API" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-picasa-data-api%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-picasa-data-api?hl=. > > > -- See me Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/CletusTSJY http://www.cameronhinkle.com/ "As systems developers, we have selected ourselves into the world of cool, calming, rational thought. Either our code compiles, or it doesn't. The compiler is never happy for us, nor mad at us. Perhaps this is why we tend to apply logic as our main device for resolving disputes." -Peopleware, 2nd Edition "Babies...before we're done here...y'all be wearing gold-plated diapers." -Rock Legend Bruce Dickinson -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Picasa Web Albums API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-picasa-data-api?hl=.
