Photobucket slideshow code

[dazmc]

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I have been trying to use the Photobucket slide show link in a post but are not having much luck. The slideshow link brings up the slideshow when entered into the address bar but when embedded in the post it is coming up that there are now photos in this album . Photobucket may have made some changes recently, so the photobucket slideshow code that I am using may need to be updated. Could anyone be able to assist me in any code changes that may need to be made
Regards Darren

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[dazmc]

Good morning everyone
ive seen a few people have had a look at my board. Can anyone shine some light on what might be the problem

regards Darren

[Chris]

I took a look but from what I can see the RSS feed now uses a different url and in particular some kind of album identifier that is not available in the URL making it impossible for a simple script such as this to reconstruct. As an example the
http://s697.photobucket.com/user/dazmc/slideshow/ISC%20BIKES
URL ultimately needs an RSS feed URL of
http://feed697./vv331/dazmc/ISC%20BIKES/feed.rss
but as you can see that "vv331" is available nowhere for the code to use.

I'll take a closer look at it in the AM but I'm doubtful there is anything to be done if Photobucket is no longer including that piece of info in the album URL, just a small chance that feed can be accessed from an alternate URL without knowledge of that internal album identifier...

A more likely scenario would be a new code would be needed that makes use of Photobucket's REST API and if such a code is undertaken it would be for a V5 forum rather than a V4 forum which will be retired in a few more months anyway.

All public albums have two RSS feed options:

• Subscribe to the newest content from a user.
• Subscribe to a specific user album.

Both of these subscription options are alternatives to the Get Album and Get Recent User Media methods in the API. However, unlike the API responses, neither option returns tags or descriptions.

Album feed URLs include the prefix "feed", the sub-domain, the Photobucket identifier, and the username. However, a feed for a user's NEWEST content is followed by "account.rss", while a feed for a specific user album is followed by "feed.rss". For example, a feed for a user's newest content looks similar to:

http://feed45./f83/[username]/account.rss

Where "feed45" indicates a feed for sub-domain 45, "albums" indicates the feed is for an album, "f83" is the Photobucket identifier, and "account.rss" indicates that the feed is for the NEWEST media in that user's albums.

A feed for content in a specific album looks similar to:

http://feed45./f83/[username]/[album name]/feed.rss

Where "feed45" indicates a feed for sub-domain 45, "albums" indicates the feed is for an album, "f83" is the Photobucket identifier, [album name] is the name of the album for which the feed is being created, and "feed.rss" indicates that the feed is for a specific album. Note that an RSS feed for a specific album might also monitor all user content for a user, if the user does not have sub-albums.

Use the Get User URL method to obtain the sub-domain, Photobucket identifier, and other pertinent information for setting up an Album RSS feed.

[dazmc]

Thank you for that Eton. I now semi understand whats going on with it.
I might have to look at another way of hosting the slideshow.Thank you very much for taking a look.much appreciated

Regards Darren

[Chris]

There's an alternate URL construct which forgoes knowing the identifier but unfortunately doesn't help here since only the album owner would be able to make use of it and only while logged in.

When a user is logged in, some actions automatically support working on the current logged in user. To do this, specify "-" as the identifier.

This code appears to be dead in the water given the changes photobucket has made recently.