How to call a GOOGLE API in C#?

Is there a good alternative to Google AppEngine Image Service's get_serving_url()?

• See get_serving_url() at https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/images/functions It serves up a URL for an image on Google Cloud Storage that enables dynamic resizing & cropping. This is *exceptionally* useful. However, we've had some problems with errors being thrown when get_serving_url() is called by our AppEngine app. We'd like to use such a solution *without* a dependency on Google AppEngine and that could be used with *other* BLOB storage solutions, such as Amazon S3, or Rackspace Cloud Files, in addition to Google Cloud Storage. Note: It would seem that the above feature would be a good addition to Google Cloud Storage, available stand-alone via API call, rather than part of AppEngine.

• Answer:

  It shouldn't be too hard to build such lightweight service yourself, download the image from S3/GCS/.., resize it and send it over HTTP. You can also store the resized images back to the file storage and serve them in case the image was previously resized.