Media Site APIs

The Cooliris Wall can display images from the Flickr or Picasa APIs. The URL for all APIs start with the api:// scheme, which is a custom protocol Cooliris products recognize. Set the feed FlashVar to an api:// URL, and you'll see the specified images in your wall. URLs with ampersand (&) characters must be encoded in order to work (see our encoder tool).

FLICKR

You can grab any public Flickr feed by user name, search term, album or group.

User name	api://www.flickr.com/?user=surrealize
Search term	api://www.flickr.com/?search=puppy
Album	api://www.flickr.com/?album=72157594567688537
Group	api://www.flickr.com/?group=645450@N20

To find an album number, open a Flickr set in your browser. The album number can be copied from the last part of the URL. To find a group ID, open a Flickr group and then click the RSS feed button in your browser's address bar. The group ID can be copied from the URL.

Picasa

Enable public Picasa feeds based on user name, search term, or album.

User name	api://picasaweb.google.com/?user=corcrs
Search term	api://picasaweb.google.com/?search=puppy
Album	api://picasaweb.google.com/?user=jajonet&album=BLIJDORP

User and album parameters can be found in your Picasa album's URL.

Coming soon

Examples for using Facebook API and YouTube APIs coming soon.