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Flickr Contacts Organiser - A cool new way to organise your contacts list

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steeev  Pro User  says:

Ive written a new GreaseMonkey script called "Flickr Contacts Organiser". It allows you to tag Flickr users, which makes finding them again and keeping up to date with their photostreams etc a lot easier. Once they are tagged, you can filter the the tagged contacts in various ways.

Latest Version of the script is 0.643 released on 06-Mar-2009

Here is the list of available filters:

* Most recent photos
* Earliest photos
* Most interesting photos
* Least interesting photos
* Most recent videos
* Earliest videos
* Most interesting videos
* Least interesting videos
* Recent photos featuring this user
* Interesting photos featuring this user
* Recent videos featuring this user
* Interesting videos featuring this user
* Recently favourited photos
* Photos of yours they've faved
* Photos of theirs you've faved
* Faves you have in common
* Random photos
* Recent Photos tagged with...
* Interesting Photos tagged with...
* Photos text includes...
* Their contacts
* Their contacts photos
* Contacts you have in common
* Their Photo Tags
* Photo tags you have in common
* Their Groups
* Groups you have in common
* Their photos that have been commented on recently
* Testimonials they have received
* Testimonials they have given
* Their Interests
* Interests you have in common
* Comments they have made on your photos
* Comments you have made on their photos
* Photos they have commented on

To get the script to run you firstly need to install the Firefox web browser, then install the GreaseMonkey extension, then install my script.

Heres a couple of pics of the script in action:

Image demonstrates an image search restricted to your tagged contacts:


Image demonstrates the new "Add tag to this person" menu item:


i have a number of other useful gm scripts which you can get from here or my mirror site here
Originally posted at 3:25PM, 14 August 2006 PST ( permalink )
steeev edited this topic 8 months ago.

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GustavoG  Pro User  says:

Brilliant.
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

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Bob Duck  Pro User  says:

Extremely useful...many thanks.
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

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clickykbd  Pro User  says:

!!!
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

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r47z™ @ Cris Chen © says:

I've been wondering how do I install this?
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

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steeev  Pro User  says:

the first link in my post explains all about greasemonkey, and how to install scripts.
Originally posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )
steeev edited this topic 39 months ago.

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steeev  Pro User  says:

ive added 3 new filters to the script: "Faves you have in common", "Contacts you have in common" + "Recently commented photos"

the "faves you have in common" filter is Extremely slow to run, tho it might just be my slow computer. the "contacts you have in common" filter is also pretty slow, tho again it might just be my computer.
Originally posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )
steeev edited this topic 39 months ago.

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Violentz  Pro User  says:

Wow, you are utterly brilliant! Flickr should put you on the payroll, if they haven't already! :o)
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

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Joits  Pro User  says:

excellent!
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

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steeev  Pro User  says:

thanks guys! btw ive fixed a couple of bugs and added another 3 new filters to the script: "Testimonials they have received", "Testimonials they have given" and "Interests you have in common"
Originally posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )
steeev edited this topic 39 months ago.

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earth2marsh  Pro User  says:

DAMN that's cool! Nice script Steve.
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

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Therrr says:

It says that the purpose is to make finding them again and keeping up with their photostream a lot easier. How difficult is it to find your contacts and their recent photos?

It does look cool and nice and all..
but it does seem that the purpose is to keep tabs on the activities of people who are not your contacts, preferably without their knowledge. If you want to keep up with your contacts and their photos simply click "contacts latest photos..."
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

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striatic is a group administrator striatic  Pro User  says:

It says that the purpose is to make finding them again and keeping up with their photostream a lot easier. How difficult is it to find your contacts and their recent photos?

wait until you've been here a bit longer. it can get extremely difficult after you've met a lot of people.

but it does seem that the purpose is to keep tabs on the activities of people who are not your contacts, preferably without their knowledge.

that's not really how the script works. they have to be your contact to begin with in order for the script to sort them, so it is impossible to use this to follow people "without their knowledge".
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

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Therrr says:

Well I can mark anybody as a contact that I want unless they are blocking me.

It says at the top of the thread Users dont actually need to be in your contacts list in order for you to tag them.
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

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Ahmed Zahid says:

Have been waiting for this for a long time... many thanks Steve.
Originally posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )
Ahmed Zahid edited this topic 39 months ago.

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steeev  Pro User  says:

Ther ✌ esa ☀♒ ♎asc wrote:

It says that the purpose is to make finding them again and keeping up with their photostream a lot easier. How difficult is it to find your contacts and their recent photos?
It seems you have totally missed the point and usefulness of this script, i guess my description hasnt really done it justice, i will have a go at rewriting it.
it does seem that the purpose is to keep tabs on the activities of people who are not your contacts, preferably without their knowledge.
thats not the purpose of the script at all, it lets you keep track of any user whether contact or not, tagging a user is the equivalent of bookmarking a website in your browser, i dont see the problem with that.
If you want to keep up with your contacts and their photos simply click "contacts latest photos..."
The more contacts you get the harder it is to find them again and keep up to date with them using the contacts page. This script lets you group your contacts with specific tags, which means you can keep up to date with specific groups of users, very quickly + easily, and also gives loads of features that the contacts page doesnt give. Before passing judgement on the script, why dont you give it a try, you might be surprised.

BTW ive added 3 new filters to the script: "Their Groups", "Their Interests", "Their Photo Tags"
Originally posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )
steeev edited this topic 39 months ago.

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earth2marsh  Pro User  says:

steeev - ever thought about putting a version check in? it could compare the internal number with a number on your server and put a link to reinstall if lower. but maybe that's obvious!
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

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steeev  Pro User  says:

earth2marsh, i will put an automatic version check in a later version. Ive made a minor update to the script. fixed a potential bug and also added a new filter "Photos they have commented on". Ive also changed the scripts version number thats displayed at the bottom of the filtered user results to a link to the script on my server, so if you want to check if you have the latest version, the lo-tech way, you can just click it and compare the version number with that in the script on the server.
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

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earth2marsh  Pro User  says:

great, thanks steeev! (you've been tagged with "hacks" btw. ;)
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

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plow plane  Pro User  says:

Cool!
Thank you!
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

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acampm1  Pro User  says:

I'd very much like ability to tag large groups of people at once...

Any ideas?
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

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B G  Pro User  says:

Useful tool Steve. Thanks.

Would also like to tag in groups.
And see list of tags next to the person's icon.

(if not too much work)
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

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BriWit  Pro User  says:

Very cool. Thanks for writing and sharing it!
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

Digital Gurl [deleted] says:

extremely cool and useful script .... thanks for sharing it with us!
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

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laSilvi  Pro User  says:

This is great. Thank you very much!
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

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sugu  Pro User  says:

great work!!!
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

GabrielR [deleted] says:

GM works on Flock??
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

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emdot is a group administrator emdot  Pro User  says:

very fun. i ran into a couple of bugs or 404 pages, but for the most part, a really great tool. :)

i wish you could add tags separated by a space, like you can for flickr. any plans for that? what about removing tags?
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

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J. Carlos Roldán  Pro User  says:

Great work!!! I really enjoy using your script. I think it is a very good work and you are kind to let us use it.

I have a problem using this script. I am using several computers, at home and when i go to my friends home or when roaming. I think it would be interesting to share my tags between different computers. I think it is not easy to implement, it is just an idea.

Thank you very much for your excellent work.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

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curmudgeonly troutmask says:

This is a great script, it would be evn better if it could run in Flock. You don't happen to know when greesemoney may be scripted to run in Flock..or where I could find out?
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

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waɪ.tiː  Pro User  says:

This is great and everything is working apart from the Comments they have made on your photos. Nothing shows up even from those contacts I know have made recent comments.

Any idea what is wrong?
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

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bmwsancho says:

nice one.. thanks!
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

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nexus6  Pro User  says:

Great script steeev!
The only point that I find that could need an improvement is that pointed by my friend jcroldan.
The tags that you create and assign seem to "resident" in your own browser, so when you use another computer (the office one, a laptop, etc) you have to recreate and to reassign tags wich isn,t too fine.
But I suppose that it,s perhaps difficult to "add" that type of info to flckr internal bd,s so ...
A great work, in any case!!
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

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R. Motti  Pro User  says:

Awesome. Congratulations, thanks!
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

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Kontaktabzug  Pro User  says:

Steeev: Is there a way to delete tags?

Edit 11/29/06: Ok, I found the usual way to delete tags but I have some tags that include quotes: "abc def tag". They show up in the list of tags but when I click on them my tagged contacts don't show up. Apparently the script has a problem with quotes so I would like to delete those tags ...
Originally posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )
Kontaktabzug edited this topic 36 months ago.

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*haibar  Pro User  says:

Your scripts are fantastic, thank you.
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

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earth2marsh  Pro User  says:

Steeev, may I suggest a feature? I realize that on the ToDo list is, "ability to subscribe to a users usertags via flickrmail / rss feed"...

Since flickr feeds support the ability to query different users in the same feed, it would be very cool to have a link that creates a feed URL out of a tag set of contacts!
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

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hidden side  Pro User  says:

Fantastic tool. I appreciate a lot your work Steeev!

* How can I export my contact tags to an other PC?
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

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My Baby Mia  Pro User  says:

I like to know is it any way to delete tags or rename it?
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

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steeev  Pro User  says:

@gabrielR + troutmask As far as i know greasemonkey does work on flock, dont know if this script does though, anyone tried it?

@emdot + My Baby Mia You can remove tags via the "-tag" links, and rename tags via the "rename tag" link.

@Kontaktabzug If theres a tag that you cant delete due to quote marks in the tag, you will either have to try and edit your tags datastore manually to remove the quote marks that are causing the problem, or uninstall the script, and also tick the box to remove associated preferences, and then reinstall the script, this process will delete all your tags though.

The script had a problem where some people couldnt view any of their tags, this bug has now been fixed.

Ive also updated the script to add functionality for backing up and restoring your tags. There are now 4 new menu items, in the "Tools/Greasemonkey/Userscript Commands" or "Tools/Userscript Commands" menu (depending on what version of GM you are using):

1) You can backup your tags datastore to your flickrmail account
2) You can restore your tags datastore from your flickrmail account
3) You can display your raw tags datastore.
4) You can restore your datastore via direct input of the raw tags datastore code (you would need to copy and paste the datastore from the first menu item or from your flickrmail)

the backup and restore functionality will mean users who want to use the script on multiple computers, will be able to export their tags from one computer and import them on the other/s.

there is a little bit of a bug when restoring your tags after storing them in flickrmail, any usernames with "non standard" characters may get a bit mangled, though this shouldnt affect the majority of the scripts functions or usernames. though i will see if i can fix this in the near future.
Originally posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )
steeev edited this topic 31 months ago.

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steeev  Pro User  says:

Ive updated the script again, this time i added "Recent photos featuring this user" and "Interesting photos featuring this user" filters. These do a search for the following tags: "me,selfportrait,flickr:user=username" on the users photostream, and return either the most recent or most interesting matching photos depending on the filter you choose.

Added recent+interesting "Photos tagged with..." filters, which works similar to the previous addition, except with this one you can choose the tag/s you want to search for.

I also fixed the "testimonials they wrote" filter and the intermittent stream duplication bugs.
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

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geozila says:

what if i have more than 8000 contacts ?
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

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littlenelly  Pro User  says:

Genial -thanks for your sedulous work !
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

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steeev  Pro User  says:

littlenelly im glad u like it.

steeev wrote

there is a little bit of a bug when restoring your tags after storing them in flickrmail, any usernames with "non standard" characters may get a bit mangled
ive fixed this bug now, and the script also has support for unicode tags. another feature is when clicking the add tag link, you can see if the contact has already been tagged or not, as it displays a list of that users tags in the dialog box.

i will next work on the improving adding tags functionality.
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

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My Baby Mia  Pro User  says:

thanks steeev, your tools are wonder!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

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Werewolf Puppy says:

You forgot to mention that this program is only for Mozilla FireFox 2.0. I don't need to organize my contacts yet.
Originally posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )
Werewolf Puppy edited this topic 30 months ago.

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Mpigapicha  Pro User  says:

Cool script! Thanks a lot and congratulations!

Is there a possibility to do a search of all "Photos they have commented on"?
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

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steeev  Pro User  says:

My Baby Mia wrote

thanks steeev, your tools are wonder!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:)

Werewolf pup ♥ wrote
You forgot to mention that this program is only for Mozilla FireFox 2.0. I don't need to organize my contacts yet.
It actually works in earlier versions of firefox as well, and possibly the flock browser too. BTW the script provides useful functionality, even if you just have a handful of contacts, give it a try :)

jubilatewest wrote
Cool script! Thanks a lot and congratulations!

Is there a possibility to do a search of all "Photos they have commented on"?
you could get roughly what you want with a
Google Search, i could make this into a filter i guess, also at some point the filters will have paging functionality.

btw v0.50 is now out and i included a new filter for contact details.
Originally posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )
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Mpigapicha  Pro User  says:

steeev wrote

you could get roughly what you want with a
Google Search, i could make this into a filter i guess, also at some point the filters will have paging functionality.

Google Search is working on some users, on others it displays even less results than your script. So, your script is better than Google, keep up the good work!
Posted 30 months ago. ( permalink )

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© justinbess ©  Pro User  says:

fab script.. !!!!!
after 30 minutes i cant imagine how i lived without it.. have to take a smoke to process this .... ha ha.. great programing.. !
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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laSilvi  Pro User  says:

steeev, I've been using this script for a long time, it is very useful, but today suddenly it stopped working. I have uninstalled and reinstalled it twice and nothing. Any clue? I run on Panther, 10.3.9.
thanks. Silvi
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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steeev  Pro User  says:

lasilvi, have a look here:
www.flickr.com/groups/flickrhacks/discuss/72157600413051929/
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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laSilvi  Pro User  says:

ohh I see.
How long will we have to wait? I guess I will need to update, but how do I know when to do it?

thank you for the quick response! :)
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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steeev  Pro User  says:

the script has been updated, and ive also added a new filter "Sets". You can get the updated version here: steeev.freehostia.com/flickr/
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laSilvi  Pro User  says:

thank you!!
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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earth2marsh  Pro User  says:

Nice. BTW, the version number needs to increment at the top of the script and at the top of this post!
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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steeev  Pro User  says:

thanks for the reminder e2m, im aware of that. i had to update a whole load of scripts at multiple locations, so my main aim was to get the scripts working again, rather than worrying about version numbers etc, will get round to that when i get some more time, cheers :)
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del_aju says:

tons of thanx steev
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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Tarky7  Pro User  says:

Awesome ! Steve, You Rule !
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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♥ shhexycorin ♥ is a group administrator ♥ shhexycorin ♥  Pro User  says:

steeev = the best

FACT
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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Engineer J says:

cool, good work.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

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saicode  Pro User  says:

I don't see the tags in my contacts page!!
how to fix it?
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

skinjester [deleted] says:

bless you - you give so much back to the "scene"
Originally posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )
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saicode  Pro User  says:

I can't use it !!

I don't see the tags in my contacts page!! :(

Could any one help please?
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

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My Baby Mia  Pro User  says:

Hi Steeev!
I have trouble with contact's tags!

Before I have list of tags and it was easy to find people by tag, but now I find millions of people with tag fex: Spain or b/w!

I like to find people from my contacts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe I miss something Or I have to download again your script!
Pls can you answer me!!!!
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

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My Baby Mia  Pro User  says:

It doesn't shaw as it shaw on your example!

I download shadow too and because my eyes . For pix is great but for text I have problem. I like to remove it but in Downloads tab shaw number not a name of script!

Please can you help me how ?

Thanks a lot
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

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laSilvi  Pro User  says:

I have installed the latest greasemonkey update and the extension stopped working. probably steeev hasn't worked on the compatibility yet.
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

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johnpiercy  Pro User  says:

I always look forward to the new and well thoughtout Scripts from STEEV ( and all the gang at Flickr Hacks )

I use a lot of the scripts and I must say a lot of time and effort goes into these scripts ..

Also dont be afraid to drop Steev a few sheckles ( donate ) , Ive donated and its a little way to say thanks ,, they appreciate it

John Piercy
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

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