Export complete photo list

[Lee Armstrong]

At the moment I am using my own PHP code and cURL to make some requests to the API (99 at a time) to iterate through all photos and store in a MySQL database at my end.

 

Each time I run this I go through all of the photos again and that is getting quite large!

 

Is there a way to say only check for photos between a date/time at all so that I don't do the whole lot?  Can this form part of the REST query?  Or is the anchor on the last request valid for the next request at all?  Bearing in mind the last set will more than likely be <99 photos!

 

Let me know if anything is not clear at all.

[Lee Armstrong]

Phil,

 

I have rewritten my code and it works great.  However I think there is something I cannot achieve without looping through all the items...take the following example.

 

Say I have 10000 photos and I edit/update the oldest one on the Ning site itself.  This will still be listed as the oldest as I presume you sort them by createdDate.  Therefore to know that an item has been updated I still need to scan the whole list 100 at a time because this will not be at the top!  Once I get there I can check the updatedDate property but I have just made 100 API calls to get there.  If I was to repeat this call every hour this adds up.

 

So I suppose I need a way of getting the recently updated items in order as well?

[Phil McCluskey]

Hi Lee,

Is the issue that some aspect of the photo will be out of sync with the data that you have on your server?

Thanks,

Phil

[Lee Armstrong]

Yes although you can get round it by scanning all 10000 using the API but that is then making 1000 calls unessesarily to the API.

If you could do the same for updated as we can for created then we can be leaner on our API usage which I think we both want! :-)

[Phil McCluskey]

Got it, thanks!