Get Photos From A Google+ Album, In Json Format

Based in this post: Google Plus Album Urls How I can get the response in JSON format, directly from the Google servers? (that means: without parse the xml and convert to JSON from

Solution 1:

As you've noticed, you need to use the Picasa Web Albums API for now, until they get around to a Google+ API. Picasa Web Albums API uses the older Google Data Protocol, which was designed around XML.

You can have Google's servers convert the XML to JSON by providing an ?alt=json parameter to the URL. The rules for how the XML is converted to JSON, as well as other information about this, are documented at https://developers.google.com/gdata/docs/json