Think you're barking up the wrong tree here. Albums aren't explicitly ordered within the storage, it's the client displaying the photos which decides the ordering to use. What client are you using? If it's G+ photos or Picasaweb then those sites will be displaying the photos in the order chosen by the user, not the order they're stored in, as far as I know. So your only way to explicitly order would be to modify the last updated date time. Unfortunately, you can't set that to an arbitrary date, as the act of updating the updateTime field triggers the photo to be updated with the time at which that field was set (if you see what I mean).
On Sun, 19 Apr 2015 17:39 Wavemaker <rogieregg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello All, > > Is it possible to modify the roder of photos and videos in an album using > the API? I would like to order by the date taken (in reverse) as is also > possible on the web interface. But I do not see this functionality > described for the API. Does it exist? > > One idea that I have myself: I am primarily using gdata python to work > with the API. When obtaining a feed for a particular album, I do note that > I get essentially a list with photos. This list could of course be sorted > differently using my own methods. After sorting it is of course possible to > post the pictures back to the album (and deleting all original pictures). > However, this requires all photos/videos in the album do need to be > re-uploaded, which is of course a waste of bandwidth. Any other ideas with > this? Can I sort an album by re-inserting existing photos, referring to > the album itself for the files, such that it does not need to be uploaded > again? > > Thanks! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Picasa Web Albums API" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to google-picasa-data-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to > google-picasa-data-api@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-picasa-data-api. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Picasa Web Albums API" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-picasa-data-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-picasa-data-api@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-picasa-data-api. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
