ICloud's photo stream API?

Question

Is there any API that would help me to extract pictures from my iCloud's photo stream on Mac ? Thanks !

Answer 1

I believe the answer at the moment is not officially. The iCloud for Developers API would be the straightforward way to do it. But every description I've read of it talks only about "Documents" and "Key/Value Data": photos and Photo Stream are conspicuous by their absence. (I don't have access to read the API docs; someone with Mac or iOS developer access could verify this.)

I've noticed that on my Mac syncing via Photo Stream, the photos I took on my iPhone and sent to iCloud are showing up in /Users/nelson/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Masters/. Presumably this is the local cache iPhoto maintains. Not a formal API, but possibly a quick and dirty way to get ahold of the images.