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I rewrote Fabricio Zuardi's Flickr Photo Page Enhancer Greasemonkey script to work with the new flash-free flickr for all you fun-loving firefox-using flickrites. I made some additional enhancements as well. Get my new version here.

See the accompanying blog entry for more info.

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leff says:

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That's pretty cool! title is coming up "undefined"... Oh, it can only find that info on your own images. An API thing?
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

jrhyley says:

Ah. Thanks for pointing that out! Fixed. It grabs that info from the page now, instead of relying on Flickr to have already defined those as variables. I should know better, that's how Fabricio's original version of the script ended up so broken after the recent de-flashification.
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

jrhyley says:

Version 0.2.3: Fixing a minor annoyance. Now clicking on "Add a Tag" will automatically populate your most-used tags, instead of you having to click again to do so.
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

leff says:

nice! works great now.
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

eshm says:

Working great for me as well, great work!
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

jrhyley says:

This script was majorly broken in regards to how it figured out the dimensions of the thumbnail photo for the quicklink html. It actually just didn't bother figuring it out and used defaults based on the photo I tested it on... stupid. That has been fixed now. Using the old version of the script is considered harmful.
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

striatic says:

i do so love this script .. the only improvement i can think of would be a quicklink for the "small" and "square" sizes as well, but normally i just strip out the siing in the tag andchange "t" to "m" or "s"

i use this userscript the most of all.
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

jrhyley says:

> normally i just strip out the si[z]ing in the tag

Can't have that! I'm a stickler for valid markup in my own, selective way. This latest version of the script does what you suggest, and thanks for the idea.

> i use this userscript the most of all.

It's a lot more useful than even I thought it would be when I (re)wrote it. I genuinely can't wait for Flickr to steal it. ;-)
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

striatic says:

ah .. but now there is no way to "hide quicklink"

i doubt flickr will steal it .. not because it isn't good, but because it makes it too easy to "steal" photos.

heck, you can't even get this code on the different sizes page unless the photo is CC {if the photo isn't your own}
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

jrhyley says:

It was time for an updated screenshot anyway:

> because it makes it too easy to "steal" photos.
But that is not all it does, and now we're getting really close to the crux of the arguments in the Grokster case. :)

Having a link to the original size makes it easier to set a picture as your desktop wallpaper, which is what I use it for, if I use it on someone else's photo. That's pretty much the classic definition of fair use, isn't it? If not, I'm infringing on someone's rights nearly every time I start my computer, as my rotation of desktops has quite a few photos from Flickr.

Additionally, I can't think of a way the Quicklink could have an infringing use. It makes it easy to link to an image you think is cool. Despite cases that have come close, no country has yet made linking a crime, AFAIR.

The quicklink is what I most would like to see in Flickr-proper. It could still be controlled by the photo-uploader's preferences, the same way "blog this" is. It's really just an easier version of "blog this" anyway, with less (no) setup required.
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

striatic says:

Despite cases that have come close, no country has yet made linking a crime, AFAIR.

kelly v. aribasoft established that thumbnail linking was fair use, but it also established that not all tumbnail linking was.

but the legality isn't at all important, the issue is that flickr caters to people who think it is WRONG {not illegal, Wrong} to thumbnail link, and this script doesn't cater to that sentiment at all {god bless it}

the original size thing is something else .. flickr cleary tries to prevent people from finding the original sized versions of things, given certain settings by the photo's owner.

on the other hand, they have publicly stated that circumvention is acceptable practice, and that they will not censor people who publicly distribute advice on how to circumvent.

but they will never adopt this script's interface or functionality .. even quicklink.

how do i know?

heck, flickr used to have thumbnail link code under every photo regardless of whether you owned it or not or its CC status .. until enough people whined that this 'encouraged stealing'.
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

striatic says:

by the way, i think it is just about perfect now : )

although sometimes it puts the height where the width should be for some reason.

like this:

See the accompanying blog entry for more info.
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

jrhyley says:

Ah. So it's a user preference thing, and not a legal thing. That's good to know, as I'd much rather have people miffed at me than litigious.

A version of the script that was live on my site for about 8 hours has two misplaced variables in the thumbnail quicklink. I've since corrected it.
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

striatic says:

ah .. yes .. working much better now.

i wouldn't worry about being sued, all the script does is code links that people could already make by hand with information made available by flickr.
Posted 56 months ago. ( permalink )

jrhyley says:

Script has been recoded to do most of the work via the flickr API. This is much better.Details here. I'm comfortable calling this a 1.0 release.
Posted 55 months ago. ( permalink )

Jayel Aheram says:

This only works on phots tagged "public?"
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

striatic says:

This only works on phots tagged "public?"

mm i think so.
Posted 52 months ago. ( permalink )

djwudi says:

Just found this through a thread in Flickr Central, and this was the first script I've seen that actually got me to install Greasemonkey. Nicely done -- thanks!
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

L8o says:

error loading userscript: 403: forbidden Help?

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Seen on your photo stream. (?)
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

groundcloud says:

is anyone else having a problem with this loading in firefox 2.0.0.3 for both PC and mac? mine loads where the main flickr tabs are.
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

jrhyley says:

It was updated two days ago due to changes to the flickr site. Re-install from here.
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

hangglide says:

Thanks for the update. Now it works again!
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

groundcloud says:

all fixed, thanks!
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

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