Integrate with ZoomHub or Zoomable.ca

[iangilman]

This browser extension is great for images that you can reasonably download, but after some point (I don't know, wider than 20K pixels?) it's not practical and you still want a tiling service to break it down. It would be cool if the extension detected that and handed off to one of the tiling services:

• http://zoomhub.org/ (currently non-functional, unfortunately)
• http://zoomable.ca/ (also currently non-functional, and it's not clear what the API is, if any, but we can talk to @abrlam about such a thing)

Of course this doesn't make sense for the feature where you right click on an image (since the image is already downloaded), but perhaps we could also support right clicking on image links. This could also be a feature for the non-browser-extension version that's on the OSD site.

Anyway, just an idea for the future.

[abrlam]

I had to disable the upload functionality temporarily because of space + web hosting issue (TOS related).  Once that's settled, I will bring it back up.

I'm leaning towards REST service for the API.  I'll provide more details later on.

[avandecreme]

It would also be nice for non CORS enabled images which can not be properly downsampled (because the canvas get tainted).
For example, this one: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA15279.jpg

[iangilman]

@avandecreme Good point. @abrlam Please keep us posted!

[abrlam]

@iangilman It's been a while! The long overdue REST API is available as beta at zoomable.ca

Documentation:
https://srv2.zoomable.ca/zoomable_api.html

Right now it does two things:

• POST Image Upload
• GET Image

No registration required for now depending on the reception.

[iangilman]

@abrlam Fantastic! Mind if I spread the word? For starters, I imagine @gasi will be interested to know about it!

We should update http://openseadragon.github.io/examples/creating-zooming-images/ with info about the API. Would you be up for making a PR to do so?

Anyway, I'm excited to hear this is up and running!

[abrlam]

@iangilman Sure thing! Feel free to spread the word.

Good idea. I'll create a PR once it's ready.

I'm excited too! Looking forward to see what others will do with it.

[iangilman]

Sweet! Tweeted:

https://twitter.com/openseadragon/status/1021511071566245889