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probably because they havent officially released it yet...
Posted 38 months ago.
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What is this feature? Tell me more, tell me more... as the song goes.
Posted 38 months ago.
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more about this:
revcanonical.appspot.com/
basically, flickr is now providing pre-shortened versions of all its photopage urls.
like www.flickr.com/photos/striatic/3397905628/ is also flic.kr/p/6bg9XN
flickr owns the flic.kr domain, so it is all in house and you don't have to get a third party involved or increase the risk of phishing.
Posted 38 months ago.
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I noticed that the pre-shortened URL hasn't been created for all photos yet (I tried it with a photo from November). So maybe they're waiting until they have 100% coverage to roll it out.
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@jakerome the URLs exist for all photos.
The shortening is just math, a base58 transform of the photo ID I'll get around to documenting soon.
Right now I'm only publishing a rev="canonical" header on the "unadorned" version of a photo URL
www.flickr.com/photos/jakerome/15023401 is shortened to flic.kr/p/2jZWa but www.flickr.com/photos/jakerome/15023401/in/datetaken doesn't currently advertise a shortened version.
Posted 38 months ago.
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Sweet. Will the shortened URLs be accessible via the "ShareThis!" interface?
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Oh, OK. That explains why one of the tools I found to get the short URL didn't work-- it just finds the rev="canonical" bit.
And boy, that's a random photo you found in my stream!
Posted 38 months ago.
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Any plans to put this on the set pages? Those are the urls I tend to post often, and they are quite long.
Also, thanks for this -- I've been enjoying watching this unfold. :)
Posted 38 months ago.
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it'd be cool to have this available to copy in paste, but more important to integrate into a "tweet this" type feature.
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@striatic why do you think I I built it and started the rev="canonical" conversation ;)
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This is a great tool, I just added it to my Safari toolbar.
When I'm at flickr the url get the flic.kr, but when I'm on any other website I automatically get the tinyurl shorted URL, great idea.
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As well as the shortened URLs for individual photo pages, I just tried flic.kr/blech and that redirects to my photo page, www.flickr.com/photos/blech/ - which might be useful for some people. This doesn't seem to be advertised with a entry in the HTML, yet, but I assume that will come with time.
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@blech I'm not making any promises about URLs we don't advertise, there were some concerns raised, but it seems like a good idea to me.
Also some notes on manufacturing short urls
[I'm Flickr Staff]
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The lack of explicit support (until and unless it shows up in the HTML) is duly noted. And thanks again for explicitly stating the short URL manufacturing method.
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These short URLs really need to be exposed on the page. Please?
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@pigsonthewinguk
Also on this subject, the great GM script that makes photo page shorties easier to get to:
Flic.kr Link GM Script (in Flickr Hacks)
www.flickr.com/groups/flickrhacks/discuss/72157620922760304/
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Short URL for group threads, please! Now that tinyurl is banned in the group blast box, posting links to more than a couple threads is pretty much unworkable.
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Does the URL shortener only work for photos because you can still access photos with just their ID using this?
www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=2293005459
There isn't an equivalent for sets that I know of. That is, you need to know who created a set to access one, but for photos you don't
Originally posted 28 months ago.
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