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imageloop API function

imagelooop.getRandomImages

Get random images.
Category: Image functions
Subcategory: Image queries
Description: Find random public images and return the looop and image IDs.

Parameters

Only mandatory parameters must be present for an API call on this function. Parameters marked as a list can occur multiple times in both SOAP and HTTP-RPC style requests.
Name Type Mandatory is List Description
count int number of random image to return

Return Values

The presence of return values depend on the meaning of the API function and status of the requested object. For example, the description value of a looop will not be returned, if it has not been set.
Name Type is List Description
looopImageIds string List List of looop+image IDs. Each string consists of the looop and image ID seperated by a comma (',').

Errors / Exceptions

Error Code Name
2001 imagelooop.InvalidApiKeyException
2005 imagelooop.InternalErrorException
2002 imagelooop.InvalidParameterNameException

API Call examples

HTTP-RPC

Request:
The line breaks and white spaces are for better reading only. All request parameters can be passed in the HTTP POST request body instead of a HTTP GET parameter in a URL. Valid HTTP POST content types are multipart/form-data for file uploads and application/x-www-form-urlencoded for usual HTML forms.

http://www.imageloop.com/httprpc/?apiKey=YOUR-API-KEY
    &f=imagelooop.getRandomImages
    &h=yourwebsite.com  - or -  &accessToken=application-access-token
    &count= (optional)



Sample response

Sample Response to illustrate what's returned (XML schema) :
The line breaks and white spaces are for better reading only.

<imag:Response xmlns:imag="http://www.imageloop.com/imagelooop-api-xsd/">
   <response name="looopImageIds">
      <list>
         <value>string-value</value>
         <value>string-value</value>
         ... (more or less value elements) ...
      </list>
   </response>
</imag:Response>
If the function call resulted in an error, no response element but an error element is returned in the above XML. See list of possible errors/exception for the function described on this page.
<imag:Response xmlns:imag="http://www.imageloop.com/imagelooop-api-xsd/">
   <error>
      <errorCode>error-code</errorCode>
      <errorType>error-name</errorType>
      <message>optional error message</message>
   </error>
</imag:Response>

SOAP

General overview including SOAP and XML schema types is available here. See http://www.imageloop.com/soap/api/api.wsdl for WSDL definition. http://www.imageloop.com/soap/api/api.xsd for XSD definition.