Retrieve a Lightroom customer's catalog ID and handle the case where the catalog ID changes between calls
domain: lr.adobe.io · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
After confirming entitlement via GET /v2/account, call GET /v2/catalog with the access token to fetch the user's catalog metadata
Extract the catalog id field from the response and cache it for use in subsequent catalog-scoped calls (assets, albums)
If the user has no catalog and one cannot be generated, expect a 403 response and prompt the user to first open a Lightroom client to create one
Use the cached catalog_id in calls such as PUT /v2/catalogs/{catalog_id}/assets/{asset_id}
If a create-asset call returns 404 with an error body indicating the catalog does not exist, re-call GET /v2/catalog to get the current catalog_id and re-cache it
Known gotchas
A user's catalog_id can change due to activity in Lightroom desktop/mobile clients, so a cached ID from a previous session is not guaranteed to remain valid
GET /v2/catalog can itself fail with 403 if the account is not entitled, so always run the entitlement check first
The response includes rel links such as /rels/images_videos and /rels/tasks/index for further catalog navigation rather than fixed URL patterns
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