Detect Image or Album

[Julián Menéndez]

Hi,

How can I detect if a imgur id is a single image, an album, or an invalid id without having to make 2 api calls?

If it's an image: http://imgur.com/gallery/r8RaUXW

api.imgur.com/3/image/r8RaUXW  returns the image data

api.imgur.com/3/gallery/album/r8RaUXW returns error. the album doesn't exist

If it's an album: http://imgur.com/gallery/cxIJ2

api.imgur.com/3/image/r8RaUXW  returns error. The image doesn't exist

api.imgur.com/3/gallery/album/r8RaUXW returns the album

If it's an invalid Url:  http://imgur.com/gallery/thisiddoesntexisthopefully

both api calls fail...

What I'm trying to do is to reduce the number of API calls. 

Julian.

[jsar...@mashable.com]

I have this same question - did you ever figure it out? It's sort of frustrating to have to do two api calls

[grimaldi...@gmail.com]

album are 5 characters long, images 7

[quentin...@gmail.com]

The gallery image data model has an is_album property : https://api.imgur.com/models/gallery_image