public static function getTimestamp() {
        //return 1191242096; //example from spec
        return file_get_contents('http://api.photobucket.com/time');
    }

from pbapi import PbApi

api = PbApi(PHOTOBUCKET_API_KEY, PHOTOBUCKET_PRIVATE_KEY)
api.reset()
api.login().request().post()
api.load_token_from_response()

login_url = api.login_url

import pickle

request_token = api.oauth_token.key
pickled_token = pickle.dumps(api.oauth_token)

#store it however

# we get the request_token as a GET param - I'm going to assume you can get it
# and retrieve the pickled oauth object

oauth_token = pickle.loads(pickled_token)
api = PbApi(PHOTOBUCKET_API_KEY, PHOTOBUCKET_PRIVATE_KEY)

# unfortunately you can't just assign it :(
api.set_oauth_token( oauth_token.key, oauth_token.secret )

api.login().access().post()

# which populates the api object with some useful stuff...
print api.username

.post()

api.ping()

api.ping( request_method="POST" )

 svn checkout http:// photobucket-api-py.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ photobucket-api-py-read-only

from pbapi import PbApi

api_key = 'YOUR-API-KEY-HERE'
api_secret = 'YOUR-SECRET-KEY-HERE'

api = PbApi(api_key, api_secret)

print "Try out Ping..."
api.reset()
print api.ping().get().response_string
print

print "Try a search..."
api.reset()
print api.search('foo', {'page': 2, 'perpage': 5}).get().response_string

api = PbApi(api_key, api_secret)
api.reset()
response = api.ping().get().response_string
print response

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<response>
	<status>OK</status>
	<content>
		<pong>(read)</pong>
		<request>
			<oauth_consumer_key>149828049</oauth_consumer_key>
			<oauth_nonce>1f376ed45cda314af10c7110932ac86d</oauth_nonce>
			<oauth_signature>U+fsMczQw2DIFdQ6ynWJtLpJ+YM=</oauth_signature>
			<oauth_signature_method>HMAC-SHA1</oauth_signature_method>
			<oauth_timestamp>1256759123</oauth_timestamp>
			<oauth_version>1.0</oauth_version>
		</request>
	</content>
	<format>xml</format>
	<method>GET</method>
	<timestamp>1256759126</timestamp>
</response>
<!-- den3api03 @ Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:45:26 -0600 -->

api.reset()
response = api.search('foo', {'page': 2}).get().response_string
print response

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<response>
	<status>OK</status>
	<content>
		<result page="2" perpage="20" totalpages="874" totalresults="17476">
			<isSponsored />
			<searchSponsor />
			<secondarytotalresults>613</secondarytotalresults>
			<primary>
				<media description_id="" name="319520.jpg" public="1" type="image" uploaddate="1256346372" username="lostlanora87">
					<browseurl>[s68.photobucket.com];
					<url>[i68.photobucket.com];
					<albumurl>[s68.photobucket.com];
					<thumb>[th68.photobucket.com];
					<description />
					<title>Foo Fighters</title>
					<isSponsored />
				</media>

...

		</result>
	</content>
	<format>xml</format>
	<method>GET</method>
	<timestamp>1256759244</timestamp>
</response>
<!-- den3api02 @ Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:47:24 -0600 -->

$api->search('foo', array('page'=>2))->get();

api.search('foo', {'page': 2}).get()

In [38]: api.search('foo', {'page':2}).get()
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
PbApiError                                Traceback (most recent call last)

/home/jim/Desktop/photobucket-api-py-read-only/PbApi/<ipython console> in <module>()

/home/jim/Desktop/photobucket-api-py-read-only/PbApi/pbapi/__init__.pyc in get(self)
    134         Forward a GET to the server based upon the current uri & param state
    135         '''
--> 136         self.__validate_request('get')
    137         self.response_string = self.pb_request.get(self.uri, self.params)
    138         if not self.no_reset: self.reset()

/home/jim/Desktop/photobucket-api-py-read-only/PbApi/pbapi/__init__.pyc in __validate_request(self, method)
    266         except KeyError:
    267             raise PbApiError(message="invalid method %s" % method,
--> 268                              core=self)
    269 
    270         return self

<type 'str'>: (<type 'exceptions.ValueError'>, ValueError('too many values to unpack',))

api.ping().get()

In [48]: api.ping().get()
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
PbApiError                                Traceback (most recent call last)

/home/jim/Desktop/photobucket-api-py-read-only/PbApi/<ipython console> in <module>()

/home/jim/Desktop/photobucket-api-py-read-only/PbApi/pbapi/__init__.pyc in get(self)
    134         Forward a GET to the server based upon the current uri & param state
    135         '''
--> 136         self.__validate_request('get')
    137         self.response_string = self.pb_request.get(self.uri, self.params)
    138         if not self.no_reset: self.reset()

/home/jim/Desktop/photobucket-api-py-read-only/PbApi/pbapi/__init__.pyc in __validate_request(self, method)
    266         except KeyError:
    267             raise PbApiError(message="invalid method %s" % method,
--> 268                              core=self)
    269 
    270         return self

PbApiError: (): invalid method get
Method: login:login:login:ping:ping:ping:ping:ping:ping:ping:ping:ping:ping:ping:search:ping:ping:ping:ping

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http://api.photobucket.com/login/request?oauth_consumer_key=149829078&oauth_nonce=1520569&oauth_timestamp=1255396944&oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1&oauth_version=1.0&oauth_signature=JqOlIkHu5Dyf0jIaNIYmwvbXGiA%3d

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string consumerKey = "149829078";
string consumerSecret = "my secret";

string normURI, normParam;
Uri uri = new Uri("http:// api. photobucket. com/login/request");
OAuth.OAuthBase oAuth = new OAuth.OAuthBase();
string nonce = oAuth.GenerateNonce();
string timeStamp = oAuth.GenerateTimeStamp();
string sig = oAuth.GenerateSignature(uri,
consumerKey, consumerSecret,
string.Empty, string.Empty,
"POST", timeStamp, nonce,
OAuthBase.SignatureTypes.HMACSHA1, out normURI, out normParam);

sig = HttpUtility.UrlEncode(sig);

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(uri.ToString());
sb.AppendFormat("?oauth_consumer_key={0}&", consumerKey);
sb.AppendFormat("oauth_nonce={0}&", nonce);
sb.AppendFormat("oauth_timestamp={0}&", timeStamp);
sb.AppendFormat("oauth_signature_method={0}&", "HMAC-SHA1");
sb.AppendFormat("oauth_version={0}&", "1.0");
sb.AppendFormat("oauth_signature={0}", sig);

Response.Redirect(sb.ToString());