Quickr Flickr Greasemonkey Script
02.23.2009
First and foremost, let me just tell you that there is no set rule on what applications Google employees can or can’t use. Even as a web developer on Google apps, I’ve been an avid Flickr user well before I joined the troops to take over the world (kidding, sort of).
Nevertheless, there need not be more preface than that. So straight and to the point, I wrote a Greasemonkey script that does a few of my favorite things in one. Hit the jump to see how my script can make your flickr life easier.
Getting started
For those that don’t know what greasemonkey is, in short it allows you “monkey” with the web in whatever way you want via JavaScript. These scripts are called “user scripts”. To do all this. Follow these short two steps
- Download and install Firefox web browser
- Install the greasemonkey plugin. Restart your browser
Get Quickr Flickr
Now that you’re all set up. Come back to visit this post and install my Quickr Flickr GM Script. (You should get a notification dialogue prompting to install it). Click “Install”.
What you get
- Press ← to navigate to previous photo
- Press → to navigate to next photo
- Press ‘esc’ to focus the comment form
- Press ’s’ to favorite a photo (s stands for “star”)
- Comment form also remains fixed to the bottom left so it’s always available
- Comment form uses AJAX for quicker posting (no page refresh)
- Your comment is appended to the bottom of the list immediately after posting
- “Reply” links are included on each comment which will insert the appropriate HTML code into the comment form.
Here is a quick preview of some of the features:
Known Issues
- Reply links sometimes don’t appear. This usually happens when someone else has invited you to join some group. Work around for now is to either join the group, or say “no thanks” — then refresh the page. This will be fixed in a later release.
- Pressing the “←” or “→” keys sometimes causes unexpected behavior. They are disabled when you are writing a comment (since they are common keys for editing text), but otherwise they are always active.
Upcoming features
A keyboard shortcut to “favorite” a photoDone! Hit ’s’ (for star) to favorite a photo- Yeah, that’s about all
Your comments are welcome, but complaining is not. This was done completely in my free time. Enjoy :)
Like the script?
Leave me some feedback on the public User Scripts website.
Comments
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Bramus! on 02.23.2009
Exactly what I needed; Thanks!
Bramus! on 02.23.2009
Dustin,
I see that you’re hooking your script on the window load event, not allowing one to move quickly between pics (with the arrows for example).
Any plans on invoking the script when the DOM is ready (cfr. this here)?
Regards,
Bram.
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admin on 02.23.2009
Bramus,
No. No plans. The “next” and “previous” photos aren’t available until “after” the window has loaded (Flickr’s fault). Therefore it has to be done this way. And believe me, I looked into DOMReady previous to posting this. It doesn’t work.
Bramus! on 02.23.2009
Dustin,
thanks for the fast answer; Should’ve known you already explored “the DOMReady way”. Nonetheless, it still remains a very useful script :-)
Kudos!
gels on 02.23.2009
Wow that is so sweet!! Too bad I don’t comment as much as I should on flickr :P Oh sloth, how dost thou tempt me.
seth on 02.23.2009
Wow, this is great. Thanks for sharing.
Dunno how much trouble it is but more keyboard shortcuts would be extra sweet (favorite, blog this, send to group, etc).
admin on 02.23.2009
gels, thanks!
seth, cool man. i’ll look into those. but for the record, you mos def want this one:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/1543
seth on 03.02.2009
dustin, hrrm, my search-fu is obviuosly not as powerful as yours. I missed that one on my foray onto userscripts.org.
Danke.
Josh on 04.13.2009
Hi Dustin,
First off let me say that this Script is fantastic, it really helps navigate through Flickr.
The only thing that bugs me is that the comment bar now floats around on the right underneath the info of the photo.
You might be thinking: “Who cares, just get used to it being on the right”…but I am picky and can’t do that!
So is there any way to keep the comment box to the right?
Thanks, Josh
Natacha on 04.19.2009
hmmm I guess since I’m on Safari I would not be a candidate for this app? Let me know when it comes to the MAC side :) looks like fun!
justin bess on 05.03.2009
This is the most awesome script ever.. i have been using scripts for over 3 years now.. and this is the most brilliant one..
Pink Status on 06.01.2009
>“Reply” links are included on each comment which will insert the appropriate HTML code into the comment form.
That’s a clever function :)
Pink Status on 06.02.2009
I found that if an URL is missing the trailing slash the script is disabled, I don’t know if it’s a bug or if it’s normal but just in case … not very important maybe :) I really like the reply function :P
Pink Status on 06.02.2009
(sorry for double post) It seems to be particular to some URL like :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/polvero/3588607882/ = active
http://www.flickr.com/photos/polvero/3588607882 = inactive
but with http://www.flickr.com/photos/polvero/3588607882/in/photostream/ it’s working with or without trailing slash.
Feel free to erase this comment if it’s irrelevant.
Cheers
Louis on 06.04.2009
Thanks this kicks @ss!
shmileblik on 06.13.2009
perfect! thank you!
Riyazi on 06.16.2009
Sounds very cool - but anyway to get this to work on chrome - tried enabling scripts etc but not working :(