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Flickr/Greasemonkey Clearinghouse

Posted on June 18th, 2005 15 comments

I’ve created quite a few Greasemonkey scripts for Flickr, and many of them are documented poorly or not at all, so I decided to create a permanent home for these scripts. They’re sorted roughly in terms of usefulness:

  • Flickr Photo Page Enhancer (screenshot): This script does a lot of things, and is the result of a lot of feedback and collaboration with the great Flickr Hacks community. The script adds direct links to all of an image’s sizes, as well as a “Quick Link” box to quickly copy and paste the HTML for a thumbnail link. It also automatically loads your most used tags whenever you click to add a tag to an image. 1-Dec-2005: Now compatable with GM 0.6.4 & FF 1.5.
  • Flickr: Thumbnails Enhancer (screenshot): adds the number of comments and notes to each photo listed in any list of thumbnails on Flickr (i.e. group pools, photos from your contacts, favorites, etc.). 16-May-2006: Updated for compatibility with Flickr Gamma.
  • Flickr User Icon Enhancer (screenshot): Flickr provides links to view a user’s photos and to add the user as a friend, wherever you see a user icon, throughout the site. This script enhances that a bit, adding links directly to a user’s profile, their favorite photos, and to send the user a FlickrMail. 16-May-2006: Made redundant by changes to the way user icons work in Flickr Gamma, script is no longer being updated.
  • Flickr Login Enhancer (screenshot): After you edit this script to include all the various Flickr usernames in your household, the default login screen will be replaced with a drop-down box, reducing the number of times per day you have to type your email address.
  • Flickr Rich Edit (screenshot) Add limited rich editing capabilities (italic, bold, blockquote, link) to any input in Flickr where you can use HTML (comments, groups, batch edit). Updated 29-Jun-05
  • Flickr: Return-to-Page on Login: This script makes it so that clicking ‘Login’ on any Flickr page will return you to that page after you log in. This is the default behavior on some Flickr pages (like Groups), but not all. This script makes it site-wide.
  • Flickr Tag Quick Edit: If you have editing privileges on an image, next to the little [x] to remove a tag you’ll now find a link directly to the page that allows you to edit all instances of that tag. Added 2005-Aug-08

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  1. Jayel Aheram said, on October 9th, 2005 at 1:26 am

    Thank you for these, by the way. They have enhanced my “Flickr experience.”

  2. Scott said, on November 26th, 2005 at 8:39 am

    Flickr Photo Page Enhancer doesn’t work with GM 0.6.3. Any chance you’ll update your script?

  3. jrhyley said, on November 28th, 2005 at 12:16 pm

    I haven’t kept up with GM development (and I’m not running the newer stuff on a daily basis), so the answer for right now is no. I’d planned to get to it when the current FF beta was actually released, but I’d also hoped that none of my scripts would break so soon. It may be a month before I have time to fix it, but I will.

  4. Scott said, on November 29th, 2005 at 10:18 pm

    Thanks.

  5. Michael Sarver said, on May 19th, 2006 at 12:02 am

    I would love to see the Flickr Photo Page Enhancer updated for the new Flickr redesign: Gamma. It was one of my favorite scripts…now it won’t work!

  6. Jason Rhyley said, on May 20th, 2006 at 10:37 am

    It should still work, unless I’m totally insane… What exacty is no longer working for you? Have you tried uninstalling the script and reinstalling it from the original source location? That seems to always be everyone’s first advice in situations like this.

  7. david said, on September 29th, 2008 at 1:19 pm

    I can see that you haven’t spent much time with these since you published them, however, I wanted to know if you could make a version of the Thumbnails Enhancer that shows # of view and favorites instead of comments & notes. Thanks!

  8. Jason Rhyley said, on September 29th, 2008 at 9:48 pm

    The number of views is not exposed via the flickr API, unfortunately, but the number of faves is doable. So, here ya go.

  9. david said, on September 30th, 2008 at 9:36 pm

    Thanks Jason! :) I wasn’t sure if the # of views was available via the API, but this is wonderful, all the same. There are a couple of groups I help admin that have minimum view/favorite requirements and cleaning the pools just became MUCH easier. I’m going to link to your version in this flickr hacks thread:

  10. david said, on September 30th, 2008 at 9:37 pm

    Oops, sorry for the double post. The thread is here:

    http://www.flickr.com/groups/flickrhacks/discuss/72157607557853843/

  11. david said, on September 30th, 2008 at 10:13 pm

    Sorry for so many posts in one night, but it looks like the Flickr API *does* return the number of views & through quite a few different methods. See the discussion here:

    http://www.flickr.com/groups/api/discuss/72157603902709990/

    Several don’t require authentication, either. :)

  12. Jason Rhyley said, on October 1st, 2008 at 3:34 am

    Authentication isn’t a problem if you use the methods flickr builds in to every page they serve, and it’s long time I changed this script to do that. Most of my others already work that way, I guess I just never got around to fixing this one. Anyway, ’tis done. Now stop giving me interesting problems, I have to go to my paying job now. :)

  13. david said, on October 1st, 2008 at 9:28 am

    Many thanks! :)

    You may want to update the description…and then get back to work! ;)

  14. Bo said, on September 25th, 2009 at 4:37 am

    Hello Jason

    Not sure if you’re still spending time with this, but I tried to install the enhancer script to use with Fluid app (on new mac snow leopard, but I guess that shouldn’t matter) – and I can’t see if it works/what it does. It’s very unclear for me from you description and screenshot. I would expect it to create some drop down info when you click the ‘All sizes’ – but nothing like that happens…

    Is the script not working anymore? Not working in Fluid apps? Or did I do something wrong? (I managed to get other scripts working)

  15. Jason Rhyley said, on September 25th, 2009 at 6:08 am

    The links to additional sizes would be added to the right hand column of the page, under the “Additional Information” heading; but no, as Fluid is based on webkit and not mozilla/gecko, I suspect none of these scripts would work without being rewritten specifically for that platform.

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