method.getSettings for all public documents

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Bastian

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Jun 7, 2008, 11:05:24 AM6/7/08
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Is there a way to get info about public documents via the api? I've
tried method.getSettings for several document ids and always get the
"Insufficient permissions to access this document" error - probably
because I am not the owner of the document.

Cheers
Bastian

Jared Friedman

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Jun 7, 2008, 3:38:18 PM6/7/08
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Hi Bastian,
Exactly what info do you need? And for which documents?

Jared

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Bastian

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Jun 7, 2008, 4:38:25 PM6/7/08
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Hi Jared,

thanks for your fast reply!!
It would be great to be able to access the thumbnail-url, title,
description, tags and the access-key for all public documents, which
are also available in the scribd community. I am the developer of
zootool.com - a bookmark-tool for images, videos, documents and links.
With this basic information I would be able to extend zootool so that
zootool users can save links to their favourite scribd documents from
the scribd community. All this could be done by parsing the url,
extracting the id and sending a request with the given document id to
your api.

I hope this is in some way understandable! My english is far from
perfect!!

Cheers Bastian


On 7 Jun., 21:38, "Jared Friedman" <ja...@scribd.com> wrote:
> Hi Bastian,
>    Exactly what info do you need?  And for which documents?
>
> Jared
>
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> CTO, Scribd
>

Jared Friedman

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Jun 7, 2008, 4:43:20 PM6/7/08
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Hi Bastian,
Currently this is not possible, but I can see now that it should be.
I will add it to our list to track feature requests.

Best of luck with your project

Regards,
Jared


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Bastian

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Jun 7, 2008, 5:13:26 PM6/7/08
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That's great to hear!! I really like scribd and I would love to
support it as soon as possible!

All the best Bastian



On 7 Jun., 22:43, "Jared Friedman" <ja...@scribd.com> wrote:
> Hi Bastian,
>   Currently this is not possible, but I can see now that it should be.
>  I will add it to our list to track feature requests.
>
>   Best of luck with your project
>
> Regards,
>   Jared
>
> --
> Jared Friedman
> CTO, Scribd
>

Bastian

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Jun 7, 2008, 9:05:21 PM6/7/08
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Hi Jared!

I couldn't really wait for the global getSettings method so I found a
way to get the information I needed by parsing the document's page and
the details page :-) It's pretty quick and dirty but it works.

If you're interested you can see the final result in this short
screencast here: http://vimeo.com/1135316

Robert Pottorff

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Jun 7, 2008, 11:59:47 PM6/7/08
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The mouseover task-list idea for the thumbnail is a BRILLIANT idea... What
are the action suggestions? Download, View, and Delete?

Robert

Bastian

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Jun 8, 2008, 6:10:17 AM6/8/08
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Hi Robert!

The action suggestions are "Open details", "Go to original", "Go to
source". I think it's a little off-topic to explain that in detail,
but you can try it here http://zootool.com/demo.

Bastian

Novice_Program

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Sep 29, 2008, 9:03:46 AM9/29/08
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Hello Jared,

Any ideas when this feature will come on the server?

Thanks.

On Jun 8, 1:43 am, "Jared Friedman" <ja...@scribd.com> wrote:
> Hi Bastian,

> Currently this is not possible, but I can see now that it should be.
> I will add it to our list to track feature requests.
>
> Best of luck with your project
>
> Regards,
> Jared
>
> --
> Jared Friedman
> CTO, Scribd
>

> On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Bastian <m...@bastian-allgeier.de> wrote:
>
> > Hi Jared,
>
> > thanks for your fast reply!!
> > It would be great to be able to access the thumbnail-url, title,
> > description, tags and the access-key for all public documents, which
> > are also available in the scribd community. I am the developer of
> > zootool.com - a bookmark-tool for images, videos, documents and links.
> > With this basic information I would be able to extend zootool so that
> > zootool users can save links to their favourite scribd documents from
> > the scribd community. All this could be done by parsing the url,
> > extracting the id and sending a request with the given document id to
> > your api.
>
> > I hope this is in some way understandable! My english is far from
> > perfect!!
>
> > Cheers Bastian
>
> > On 7 Jun., 21:38, "Jared Friedman" <ja...@scribd.com> wrote:
> >> Hi Bastian,
> >> Exactly what info do you need? And for which documents?
>
> >> Jared
>
> >> --
> >> Jared Friedman
> >> CTO, Scribd
>
> >> On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 8:05 AM, Bastian <m...@bastian-allgeier.de> wrote:
>
> >> > Is there a way to get info about public documents via the api? I've

> >> > tried method.getSettingsfor several document ids and always get the

Manjunath

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Oct 4, 2008, 4:36:45 AM10/4/08
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Hello Jared,

Even I am looking forward to this feature. I am still getting the same
"Insufficient Permission to acess the document".

When will this be up?

Thanks,
Manjunath

bhavesh...@gmail.com

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