RESTful images

Tuesday, 28 March 2006, 20:36 | Category : Geograph, Software Development
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Thought I’d play around and make a Wordpress plugin to show a selected Geograph image, and form the beginnings of a REST style API for Geograph.
First thing was to provide a way to obtain picture metadata – this was pretty straightforward – requesting a URL like this
http://www.geograph.org.uk/api/photo/40212

Returns an XML result like this
<geograph>
<status state=”ok”/>
<title>From Bygrave to [...]