Album

This reference only covers the most important details. Use the Live API Browser to see everything.

Live example: /api/v2/album/SJT3DX

The album endpoint provides access to album settings and album contents. Albums are also known as galleries.

For a simpler, unified view of folders, albums, and pages, use the Node endpoint instead.

Important fields

Owner-only? Owner-writeable? Name Description
X Date Time when this album was created (which never changes)
X Description The human-readable description
X External Is the "allow external embedding" option enabled?
ImagesLastUpdated Time of the last change to the contents or ordering of this album
LastUpdated Time of the last change to the contents (but not the ordering) of this album
X Name The human-readable title
X PasswordHint The hint for the album-viewing password
X X Privacy Private, Unlisted, or Public
X X SmugSearchable Allow this album to appear in SmugMug search results? Can be "No" or "Inherit from User".
X UrlName The user-configurable component of the album's WebUri
WebUri The album's page on the SmugMug website
X X WorldSearchable Allow this album to appear in external search results? Can be "No" or "Inherit from User".

Important links

Name Description
AlbumImages The images in this album, as album-image relationship objects
HighlightImage An image which can be used as a representative of this album
Node View this album as a node (only present if the album's owner is on New SmugMug)
UnlockAlbum Unlock this album (only present if locked)
User The user who owns this album

Creating an album

To create an album, you must POST to the FolderAlbums endpoint of the folder where you want the new album to be created:

400: Invalid request

The response, if successful, will be the Album object that was created.