Ok here is my thought. Maybe someone has done it? Maybe not? I've been looking for all of the photo share sites and see what API's are available.
My thought: we all have our photos uploaded to different sites, whether you use Photobucket, Dropbox, Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, if you have an Android your backups go to Picasso, iPhone goes to iClouds Photo Stream etc. Why upload your photos to yet another site that you want to share? Many times, users are on multiple sites like these an have the exact same photos uploaded.
Here's what I am looking to try. I have looked for these sites apis that will go to the photos. (Not all but enough to see if it may even be possible?)
1. The photos will set to shared on those sites. No private photos(if possible)
2. Set up the page to allow the member to login to the photo site with the creds.
3. Then display the (shared) folders, they select the folder they want to get the photo from, select the photo.
4. Only grabs the url link to save on my end, not import or upload the photo.
5. When they select the photo, I retrieve the link for the full sized and for the thumbnail.
The issue may be bandwidth, API max calls, etc. But for the end-user to not have the photo sitting on yet another website.
Anyone's thoughts? ideas? has it been done, do you think it's possible. pro's / con's?
