This is in fact exactly what I did :-)

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 8:53 PM, bluescrubbie <[email protected]>wrote:

> This is in python, but it may be analogous:
>
> http://cychong.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/download-original-pictures-from-the-picasaweb/
>
> On May 12, 1:57 pm, Philipp <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hey there,
> >
> > I know this has been asked before, but I couldn't find a working
> > solution. I'd like to download the original image (not scaled, not re-
> > calculated) from Picasa using the Java Client API (http://
> > code.google.com/p/google-api-java-client/).
> >
> > Here is what I've tried / looked at:
> >
> > - I've tried the code from stackoverflow [1] that uses the
> > PhotoEntry.getMediaSource() method, but it always returns "null".
> >
> > - I tried the PhotoEntry.getMediaContents() method, but it returns an
> > object of the type
> > "com.google.gdata.data.media.mediarss.MediaContent", not
> > "com.google.gdata.data.MediaContent", so there is no getInputStream()
> > method.
> >
> > - I've tried the following code, but it returns an InputStream to a
> > JPG file, even though I uploaded a PNG:
> >
> > MediaContent media = (MediaContent) photoEntry.getContent();
> > MediaSource mediaSrc = picasaWebService.getMedia(media);
> > // get file with mediaSrc.getInputStream()
> >
> > - I also read about the "imgmax=d" [2] trick, but I couldn't figure
> > out how to get it to work with the client API.
> >
> > I really have no idea what to do. Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Philipp
> >
> > [1]
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4515830/how-do-i-download-images-f...
> > [2]
> http://code.google.com/apis/picasaweb/docs/2.0/reference.html#Parameters
>
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