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Ian Svoboda
Ian Svoboda
16,639 Points
Posted by Ian Svoboda
Ian Svoboda
16,639 Points

How can I use the OneDrive API to display photos on my webpage?

Summary/Purpose

I'm trying to get all the photos from a specific, public OneDrive album and display them to my webpage using the OneDrive API. The purpose here is to use the images in this album to populate a gallery on one of the site's pages.

Issues

I've done some reading on the developer page and it certainly seems possible. I'm getting stuck on access tokens however.

From what I can gather, it looks like i'd need to authenticate to retrieve this type of data (i.e. sign in, provide access token, then get the data). I would ideally like to bypass this since the album folder isn't private but I'm lost on where to start.

I don't want someone to do this for me of course, I'm just looking for some "experienced direction".

About me

I have very little experience with APIs but I am familiar with HTML, CSS, PHP, and Javascript/jQuery.

I'll be happy to answer any additional questions needed.

Dave McFarland
Dave McFarland
Treehouse Teacher
Dave McFarland
Dave McFarland
Treehouse Teacher

Hi Ian Svoboda

Can you post a link (or links) to the developer pages for OneDrive?

Ian Svoboda
Ian Svoboda
16,639 Points
Ian Svoboda
Ian Svoboda
16,639 Points

My bad I should've included that originally! http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn631839.aspx

I was looking under Scopes and Permissions (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn631845.aspx) and I believe I found the methods/objects I can use, such as "Photo" (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh243648.aspx#photo) but I'm still kind of stuck.

Really appreciate the help here!