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GM Script: Flickr Home Page Change

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23hq.com/ciberado says:

Hi! this's my first one, so please be free to say it sucks ;-) The script changes the left panel of your home page with what I think is a more interesting content (the newest photos from your friends and the latest comments received). Install it from here and happy scripting!
Originally posted at 11:26AM, 4 August 2006 PDT (permalink)
23hq.com/ciberado edited this topic 71 months ago.

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mhusson says:

A screenshot of the mentioned script would probably help a lot of people out in getting an idea of what the script does, just as a tip for posting about scripts.

But I like the script!
Posted 71 months ago. (permalink)

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23hq.com/ciberado says:

Of course you are right, mhusson. Lot of of thanks and here is the screenshot! :-)

flps

(look at the left panel)
Originally posted 71 months ago. (permalink)
23hq.com/ciberado edited this topic 71 months ago.

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23hq.com/ciberado says:

Updated! I think there was a problem with the browser cache...
Posted 71 months ago. (permalink)

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23hq.com/ciberado says:

Updated again! now the script respects your alerts, like "you have 1 new message" :-)
Posted 71 months ago. (permalink)

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-= Hobo =-  Pro User  says:

Great! I love it!
Posted 71 months ago. (permalink)

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Math Paul  Pro User  says:

love it.
Posted 71 months ago. (permalink)

PhiIip [deleted] says:

aaand if also the contacts photos would get more space? i have not so many friends to full my left side panel :(
but i have loads of contacts.
Posted 71 months ago. (permalink)

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23hq.com/ciberado says:

Oh! Lot of thanks for the comments! :-) Phil, I can change to show pictures about all your contacts but there's no many avalaible space to layout them... perhaps I could integrate it with the "tag your contacts" script so you could select which ones you want to list...
Posted 71 months ago. (permalink)

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mortimer?  Pro User  says:

I think that as the contacts are already on the right, you don't really need to have them on the left again, but perhaps having two lines of photos instead of one there could be nice.

In fact, a cool thing would be to add a checkbox next to each block there, and select which one we want to see (I don't really care about my own photos for example...) and fill the space left with the one selected.
Posted 71 months ago. (permalink)

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23hq.com/ciberado says:

Hi Mort! I was about to do exactly that in the next version... whenever I finish the script that I'm working at right now. Hell, my English sucks :S Anyway I'm not very sure about if it would be desirable to vertically expand the home page...
Posted 71 months ago. (permalink)

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mortimer?  Pro User  says:

Your English is fine for me ;)

Yes, maybe it's not a good idea, the thing I proposed was to expand if one of the other blocks is hidden if you see what I mean.
Posted 71 months ago. (permalink)

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ÐIÐËO  Pro User  says:

one thing i did notice is that the script is set to show 5 pictures from each of your contacts. Since there are only 20 spaces that means you'll only see images from the last 4 contacts on your list. I made a slight change to the script to have it show only one picture from each contact. I hope you don't mind. You can get it here.
Posted 70 months ago. (permalink)

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xrodgers  Pro User  says:

Looks great but the images dont appear for me on the left hand side of the page. Any suggestions?
Posted 70 months ago. (permalink)

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xrodgers  Pro User  says:

Sorry i should be more clear. I was expecting my 'contacts recent photos' to appear on the left. As I dont have any freinds that is why there are no photos there! So, any chance of altering the script so 'contact recent photos' appear on the left? many thanks
Posted 70 months ago. (permalink)

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23hq.com/ciberado says:

Ooooooops! sorry everybody... I didn't noticed the comments, lot of thanks for them.

Well, Dideo, I first tryed to show only a contact and imho it wasn't so funny. I have always my home page open somewhere in the screen so I check it now and then and it's funny to see how the photos are appearing. But feel free change it if you want and thanks a lot for publishing it.

xrodgers...oops!!! yes, it's easy. Download the script and change "friends=1" for "friends=0". Then load it in your mozilla and done! ;-) You're very welcome.
Posted 69 months ago. (permalink)

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triplegem  Pro User  says:

Forgive my ignorance, but how do i get this to work? I'm using firefox 1.5 on OS X
Posted 69 months ago. (permalink)

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mortimer?  Pro User  says:

get greasemonkey.mozdev.org, restart firefox, right clik on the link given above and select "install user script"
Posted 69 months ago. (permalink)

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triplegem  Pro User  says:

thank you. for some reason I can't install that. when i click on 'install greasemonkey' there, a bar appears at the top of the page that says 'Software Installation is currently disabled. Click edit options.. to enable it and try again'. I do that and firefox goes weird - it looks like it's meant to open a window but instead a line appears in the one that's open and that's that. Any idea how i can enable software installation by some other method?
Posted 69 months ago. (permalink)

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23hq.com/ciberado says:

morti, thanks a lot for the support ;-)

skate, do you have a little monkey face in the lower right corner of the screen?
Posted 69 months ago. (permalink)

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fujiyama17  Pro User  says:

I really like this!

the left side had nothing too important... now, it's filled with more relevant stuff!!

It would be cool if you did get rid of the frist four pictures from my friends since they are already on the right... and just fill it up with four more!

Thanks for this great script.

-f
Originally posted 69 months ago. (permalink)
fujiyama17 edited this topic 69 months ago.

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23hq.com/ciberado says:

:-D Thanks for the comment, fuji! It makes me feel good. The original script only shows the picture of your friends and I think the right side do it over all your contacts, so the content is not reallly the same (can you confirm it, please?) But it could be filtered easily... although I'm currently very busy. Perhaps next month ;-)
Posted 69 months ago. (permalink)

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23hq.com/ciberado says:

I'll have some free time this weekend and I would like to enhance the trick... if anybody has any suggestion I'll very happy to hear about it! :-)
Posted 67 months ago. (permalink)

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juliencassis says:

Hey, I am not sure how can you edit the script? Ans also everytime it loads my home page it says I have new mail, howvere this is not the case. Any idea why?
Oh and it's relaly cool, makes the home page so ,uch more pleasent
Originally posted 67 months ago. (permalink)
juliencassis edited this topic 67 months ago.

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23hq.com/ciberado says:

Thanks for the reply, julien! oooooooops! I don't have this "permanent email" problem... can you tell me if the problem persist when you close and open again the browser? what version of greasemonkey are you running? ^_^
Posted 67 months ago. (permalink)

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malik ml williams  Pro User  says:

just saw this. just installed it.
HOT!!! i love it!
Posted 62 months ago. (permalink)

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nuttallp  Pro User  says:

another great script, **applause**
Posted 62 months ago. (permalink)

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23hq.com/ciberado says:

Oh!! thanks a lot! :-D Sorry for the delay, I didn't notice the comments ^_^
Posted 61 months ago. (permalink)

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Benjamin C Ransom says:

It worked for me for about a minute, now the Ads have returned, the script doesn't show up in my Greasemonkey list and I can't re-install it as it errors saying it's already installed! Madness!
Posted 60 months ago. (permalink)

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clickykbd  Pro User  says:

Nice. I like it. Wish all of the photo blurbs were expanded to include more than 4 each. And I wish "Your Groups" also showed recent postings.
Posted 60 months ago. (permalink)

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pallettina says:

I'm not good in editing the script...but I'd like that the image from friends could be more...how do I Increase it?
Originally posted 60 months ago. (permalink)
pallettina edited this topic 60 months ago.

Ivan Lockert [deleted] says:

Trying to figure this out right now just wonder how successful ill be with this.
Posted 60 months ago. (permalink)

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Lusername  Pro User  says:

My browser's choking on the download for some reason? :-(
Posted 60 months ago. (permalink)

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turtle.cliff says:

I love this-Well done-Thanks
Posted 55 months ago. (permalink)

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No veo nada (Coke)  Pro User  says:

very cool...thanks!!!
Posted 55 months ago. (permalink)

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Saynine says:

Darn I loved this script, but it does not appear to work with FF3 :(
Posted 48 months ago. (permalink)

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CotswoldPhoto  Pro User  says:

That would be GreaseMonkey not working properly yet with FF3.
Posted 48 months ago. (permalink)

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greeniebone  Pro User  says:

Greasemonkey now works with FF3, but this script does not seem to be compatible. Any suggestions on how to make it work with the new Firefox?
Posted 48 months ago. (permalink)

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alexander cornelious  Pro User  says:

I'm having the same issue, i.e. have fierfox 3 but this script no longer works....any chance of a fix as the script is excellent...cheers
Posted 48 months ago. (permalink)

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dodob19 says:


Hi 23hq.com/ciberado. I hope you don't mind, but I made a few changes to your script to get it working with Fx3 and the Greasemonkey. (They seemed to have tightened security a bit.) Changes in bold:


(line 14) var items = xmlDoc.evaluate("/rss/channel/item", xmlDoc, null,

(line 47) var items = xmlDoc.evaluate("/rss/channel/item", xmlDoc, null,

(line 54) var thumb = currentItem.getElementsByTagName("media:thumbnail").item(0).getAttribute("url");

That seems to have fixed it for me. Great script, I like it a lot better than Flickr's original left panel (which sucks ;)).


If you're feeling adventurous, you can try making the changes above before ciberado updates the script officially:

1. Go to your Flickr home page (click on Home at the top left).

2. Right-click on the Greasemonkey icon, then right-click again on "Flickr's Left Panel Sucks".

That should open a text editor with the script. Make the three changes, save and close. Then reload your Flickr home page and cross your fingers ;)

(If Greasemonkey pops up a File Browser instead, then it's looking for a text editor. Simply point it to C:\Windows\Notepad.exe or something similar.)

Good luck and happy browsing! :)
Posted 48 months ago. (permalink)

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litris says:

Thanks!!!

Saludos.
Posted 48 months ago. (permalink)

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greeniebone  Pro User  says:

Oh my gosh, I LOVE YOU. ;-D It worked like a charm! Thanks so much for the simple instructions. You have totally made my day!
Posted 48 months ago. (permalink)

Ms Art Lit [deleted] says:

Hi, my name is Luci and I am a Flickr-holic ... ...
and I admit, I am illiterate when it comes to scripts and java and the likes.
One of my contacts told me about a script for most-interesting and I (not knowing what the heck it was) took a look.
From that link through a bunch of others I ended up here ... and I joined because I want to use the scripts but have no idea how to. ....
Can someone mentor me? teach me how to get this on my flickr page?
oh ... and I am not a paying member of flickr, is that perhaps one reason why nothing seems to work for me?
Posted 48 months ago. (permalink)

freshmeat-1 [deleted] says:

how do i post pics on comments?
i'm new at this .
Posted 48 months ago. (permalink)

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kiwirat  Pro User  says:

Find the photo you want to post, click on sizes above the photo, click on medium, copy all the the text that appears, goto the group and paste the code into the comments box, click save.

I forgot to add, I love this script!!!
Originally posted 48 months ago. (permalink)
kiwirat edited this topic 48 months ago.

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nuvorteidnaed[温建名]© says:

this is excellent, thank you =)
Posted 48 months ago. (permalink)

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kiwirat  Pro User  says:

well I just did what dodob19 suggested, worked like a champ, thanks
Posted 48 months ago. (permalink)

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Wil C. Fry  Pro User  says:

Yep, the changes worked perfectly. Thanks.
Posted 47 months ago. (permalink)

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nuvorteidnaed[温建名]© says:

its NOT sux, its EXCELLENT.... i like it very much, thanks bro =)
Posted 47 months ago. (permalink)

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emma_em  Pro User  says:

Hi, can anyone help? I wanted to make the changes as suggested above, but mistakenly selected ScriptEditor, which it didn't like and now firefox won't let me try and open/edit the script in another application. Very frustrating!
Thanks for any help offered!
Emma
Posted 45 months ago. (permalink)

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greeniebone  Pro User  says:

Oh good grief, now Flickr changed the layout of their front page again, and this hack is broken! This was by far my favorite Flickr hack, and I feel lost without it (again)! Any suggestions for making it work again, or is there a reformatted version of this hack someplace?
Posted 44 months ago. (permalink)

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greeniebone  Pro User  says:

Hopeful bump...
Posted 44 months ago. (permalink)

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little_man_littttle says:

Canon S95 pro says:

thask you wil c. for a great advice, i'll try it
Posted 21 months ago. (permalink)

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Wil C. Fry  Pro User  says:

little_man_littttle
Please don't use my name in a spammy comment. Thank you.
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decembre  Pro User  says:

little_man_littttle wrote

thask you wil c. for a great advice, i'll try it


It's strange way to use our comment!
Posted 21 months ago. (permalink)

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