PicasaWeb albums have an option to download the entire album to Picasa, which comes in quite handy when you'd like to have a complete archive of the pictures taken at an event. However, PicasaWeb URLs now redirect to the view of the album in Google+, which doesn't expose the equivalent command. There is a workaround for this (append
noredirect=1 to the PicasaWeb URL), but it's rather involved. As an easier alternative, here's a bookmarklet:If you invoke it on a Google+ photo album page, it'll try to launch Picasa and download that album (unless the owner has disabled that option).
The pretty-printed version of the bookmarklet script is:
(function(){
var ALBUM_URL_RE =
new RegExp('https://plus\\.google\\.com/photos/(\\d+)/albums/(\\d+)[^?]*(\\?.+)?');
var match = ALBUM_URL_RE.exec(location.href);
if (match) {
location.href = 'picasa://downloadfeed/?url=' +
'https%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fback_compat%2Fuser%2F' +
match[1] + '%2Falbumid%2F' + match[2] + '%3F' +
(match[3] ? encodeURIComponent(match[3].substring(1) + '&') : '') +
'kind%3Dphoto%26alt%3Drss%26imgdl%3D1';
} else {
alert('Oops, not on a Google+ album page?');
}
})();
The
picasa://downloadfeed URL scheme was observed by looking at what happens when "Download to Picasa" is selected on a page through Chrome's DevTools' Network tab. The attempt at preserving query parameters is to that the authkey token and the like are passed on (unclear if it actually does anything though).
