Why Google Places API not showing all photos? - google-plus

When I do a request like this it show me 1 photo_reference but in the url of this site in Google + there are 12 photos.
How I get all the photos from Google +?

You have to request the "place/details" to get all the details about it.
something like this.
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/details/json?reference=Image_ref&key=YourKey
It's probably lat XD, it was asked two years ago.

From the manual here:
Note: The number of photos returned varies by request.
A Find Place, Nearby Search, or Text Search request returns at most one photo element in the array.
A Place Details request returns up to ten photo elements.
It is unclear to me if you can get more than 10 photos.

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foursquare user less access to photos

So right now the only thing I could find is to use this user less request
https://api.foursquare.com/v2/venues/explore/?client_id=CLIENT_ID&client_secret=CLIENT_SECRET&v=20130815&ll=40.7,-74&query=canes&near=kenner&venuePhotos=1
But this only returns 1 photo in the photos object for every place, even if that place has more then one public photo
https://foursquare.com/v/raising-canes-chicken-fingers/4b4e7802f964a520dfee26e3
This is an example, when I get this locations info it only puts the first image in the json response but theres 19 photos
i figured it out
https://api.foursquare.com/v2/venues/4b4e7802f964a520dfee26e3/photos?client_id=XXXXX&client_secret=XXXXX&v=20130815&ll=40.7,-74
the docs only show a example on getting the photos with a oauth token. I just happened to guess doing it like this and it worked.

how to display Google Plus average rating on my website?

I want to put Google+ badge of a business on my page. I can get code for it using Google Developer website: https://developers.google.com/+/web/badge/#badge
But i do not understand how to get average score and number of reviews so I can feature them on my website as well - something similar to what you get when you search for a place:
for example, here is a restaurant's Google+ page: https://plus.google.com/106659611775440325701/about?hl=en - it clearly displays all those reviews and scores. How to get this information from Google? Is there a way to modify badge's code to include them?
Reviews data is part of the Places API. There are a couple of options for getting them on your site.
The Maps Embed API would be the easiest but requires loading a map on your page.
Using the Maps JS API v3 you can load and render place details client side.
Using the HTTP API you can load details on your server to cache in a DB and render on page load.
UPDATE May 2019: it is possible now to get total number of reviews using Place Details Place APIs call: https://developers.google.com/places/web-service/details#fields
as of Jan 2019, it returns user_ratings_total field: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/releases#335
so looking at this again 3 years later, we still can't get all reviews for a place. We can get some - top 5 - using Place Details API call: https://developers.google.com/places/web-service/details
then there is a change request for Google team to extend this: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/35825957
And finally, you can apply for Google Business Account and request access to extended API which allows you to get all reviews for a verified location: accounts.locations.reviews.list

instagram api search hashtags isn't reliable - so can I do this?

I'm looking to somehow tell users to upload a picture and do something, either tag or # our company so we are notified in real time, i just need to fetch the url of the photo that was uploaded and tagged or # or ANYTHING.
the hashtag search doesn't seem to work correctly, i've tried multiple hashtags and they wont retrieve them in any type of real time or at all.
the real-time subscription only notifies me that there is a new photo tagged that i subscribed to, so i have api search for a list of new media with that tag, which goes back to point 1, its not accurate or reliable.
so do i have any options at all on instagram?
If not do I have any options on facebook? any real time keyword search to grab the url of the photo they uploaded with a unique tag.
Check out https://github.com/chapmanu/hummingbird, it might be what you're looking for.
My experience with the Instagram Real-Time API is, that it is rather reliable.
When you get a real-time ping and then call the endpoint for your hashtag, the results are ordered newest first.
You can then paginate until you hit the last known result.
Maybe this tutorial helps: http://www.mtrinitaria.com/mykhel/tutorial-instagram-real-time-photo-update-api-with-php/

Youtube data API version 3 pagination

I understand that youtube response contains the next and previous page tokens and we can use those to go to previous and next pages.
eg :
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?&key={key}&part=snippet&maxResults=20&order=viewCount&q=abc&type=video&videoDuration=long&videoType=movie&pageToken=Cd323A
My question is how can I navigate to nth page of particular search?
Please note that some people may see this is impossible. But I have seen some site implemented this.
Youtube API only provides NextPageToken and PreviousPageToken, that's it, sorry: see documentation here: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/videos/list
You can still make a pagination item but you will have to implement it by calling multiple times the URL, passing the NextPageToken as pageToken in your requestion every time, and caching results.
By the way, this question is already answered here (see the 1st point of the answer): youtube data api v3 php search pagination?
Quoting them:
In particular your case where you need 50 pages per page and you are
showing 3 pagination like (1,2,NEXT) then you need to fetch results
two times. Both the results you will keep in cache so for page 1 and 2
results will be retrieved from cache. For next you make it sure that
you are making query google again by sending nextPageToken.
Thus to show pagination 1-n and every page 50 results then you need to
make n-1 queries to google api. But if you are showing 10 results per
page then you cane make single query of 50 results using which you can
show first 5 pages (1-5) with the help of retrieved results and at
next you should again send next page token like above.
NOTE- Google youtube api provide 50 results max.
nextPageToken and prevPageToken comes with the api request.
Now you save the token in an array and then insert it as a nextPageToken in another api call and you will get the next page. The same way you will get a prevPageToken when u get the next page results.
Hope it helps.

Display venue public photo on iOS app

My apologies if I'm not using the most technical terms in my question as I am asking on behalf of a development team who is creating an app for me, but we are having trouble making a call to the Foursquare API to get public photos (at least one) of specific venues.
Until now they have only been able to get low resolution photos and are telling me we need to be authenticated but I'm not sure they are explaining what they need to me correctly.
I have searched for hours and have not been able to understand how we would be able to obtain at least one photo for a given venue. The closest I have come to is getting a list of photos for a venue using the example query: https://api.foursquare.com/v2/venues/43695300f964a5208c291fe3/photos?oauth_token=...TOKEN...&v=20130529
This involves the OAuth_Token and I had understood we didn't need this to get an image of a venue using the API.
Once again, apologies if I'm using any terms incorrectly as I am not a programmer myself. Thanks.
That call to venues/VENUE_ID/photos is indeed a way to solve your problem: you can do that to get public photos for specific venues, where the specific venue is identified by VENUE_ID. You don't need an OAuth token; instead, you can simply pass in client_id and client_secret parameters. Examine the URL pattern we document under "Userless access" here: https://developer.foursquare.com/overview/auth#userless
Once you have these responses, you need to construct a photo URL, and this is where you can specify the desired size. For each photo response, you take prefix + size + suffix to construct a full URL. For an example, see https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/responses/photo