Shutterfly API

Question

I found this site

http://www.shutterfly.com/documentation/api_OrderImage.sfly

but there are no examples of the actual passage of the whole process. Does anyone have good documentation on using this API to take a local photo and allow someone to order printing through shutterfly?

Answer 1

I went through the following steps:

• Register for an account
• Register as a developer

Create an application (I called my test). Note the generated Application ID and Shared Secret

The Shutterfly API page contains a list of links for the various domain APIs:

• The address book
• Album Details
• Folder data
• Go to Shutterfly UE
• Image upload
• Interactive Registration
• Image Request
• Order
• Pricing
• Simple login
• User data
• User authentication

Everyone uses the principles of RESTful. The documentation looks pretty comprehensive for me, if you need some background, here are the links for the RESTful API and ROME you can find useful

On the same page there is an Explorer Explorer section that allows you to test methods through a form on your site. For example, this form is for CRUD operations based on album data .

Based on your comment, for your requirements, you should:

• Use Album GET to browse albums and then get data for a specific album.
• Use Image Get to get image data so your friend can check the images they want to purchase.
• User authentication
• Use the POST Price Query to get an estimated image value.
• User Order POST to send an order via https

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Update: A description page was found using the Greasemonkey script, which adds the ability to print Shutterfly print for Flickr. This can serve as the basis for a solution.

Answer 2

Reference:

The source link above is the middle step of the Shutterfly Open API ordering process.

The whole process goes through a series of steps that allow you to control much more than just popping photos into some kind of album in Shutterfly.

In this process, your application can actually complete the whole procedure:

• indication of images, sizes and quantities or other products
• calculation of shipping, taxes and totals
• payment and
• processing start

It also includes the ability to see when packages are delivered and received.

Thus, if you have a reliable application for matching your images on paper and products, you can greatly control the entire process.

Once the order has been shipped, it will appear in the Shutterfly user account with which the order was associated.

Kudos to Shutterfly to create such a powerful tool! It would be great if other printing devices had similar tools.