toppa/Shashin — Issue #28: Failed to retrieve album feed at ....
Author: kmatthews812
Created: 2011-11-23 09:57:37+00:00
State: open

I was running Shashin v2 on my host Siteground.com just fine. I upgraded and it asked me to "sync all" in order to complete the upgrade. Whenever I try to sync all existing albums, sync one, or import a new album, I get the dreaded error:

"Failed to retrieve album feed at http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/kevin.matthews/albumid/5669032831219584017?kind=photo&alt=json"

Here are a few details:

WP Version: 3.2.1
PHP Version: 5.3.6
Shashin Version: 3.0.5

The existing albums were imported with v2, but I'm trying to move them to v3. I set the "Support old-style Shashin shortcodes?" to "Yes" and they still display on existing posts just fine.

When importing a new album, I have tried the following album links and they all fail:

https://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/base/user/michaeltoppa/albumid/5590273039059471873?alt=rss&kind=photo&hl=en_US
http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/base/user/michaeltoppa/albumid/5590273039059471873?alt=rss&kind=photo&hl=en_US
https://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/base/user/kevin.matthews/albumid/5675310629275932449?alt=rss&kind=photo&hl=en_US
http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/base/user/kevin.matthews/albumid/5675310629275932449?alt=rss&kind=photo&hl=en_US

When trying to refresh existing albums, these links all fail:

https://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/kevin.matthews/albumid/5650833995240953297?kind=photo&alt=json
http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/kevin.matthews/albumid/5650833995240953297?kind=photo&alt=json

When I had v2 installed, https picasa links never worked. I always had to use http links. My host will open up ports for me, so if the new version making picasa pull requests on an unusual port, I need to know the port number.

Thanks!

Kev