Flickr Auto Pagination 1.2

Flickr was at some time part of the Web 2.0 innovation crowd, but lately their interface is not making the most of the available technologies. In particular switching pages has become a bad reflex for all the users when "infinite scrolling" can easily be implemented.

Infinite Scrolling for Flickr | 18 April 2007, by Mortimer

This greasemonkey script makes small changes to the interface removing the need for you to click on the pagination number and wait for loading times every time you go to the next/previous page.

"Flickr Photos from your Contacts Infinite Scroll"

When you browse paginated pages on flickr [1], the script will fetch the next page and append it automatically at the end of the current page while you scroll down.

The initial load time for the page is the same as the normal loading time. The next pages are only loaded when you scroll to the end of the current page. This means less clicks for you, but also shorter loading times for the next pages.

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Click on the following icon and select "Install"

5363 download(s) since 25 July 2007

1Localisations

This script comes by default with two languages: English, Portuguese (thanks to Perla*) and French. If you want to propose a translation in one of the other language supported by Flickr, please see Help localise Flickr scripts

2Upgrades

Version 0.8 makes the script compatible with the new languages introduced for Flickr. It also comes with English and French localisation.
Version 0.7 fix a bug where the first page will show over and over on the tag search
Version 0.6 adds support for the tag and tag clusters pages
Version 0.5 fixes the bug that broke flickr javascripts in the page automatically loaded. The buddy menu and the in place editing in your stream/set pages will now work correctly, even for dynamically loaded pages.
Version 0.4 is a small update for code cleaning and a fix so that flickr javascript (buddy menu, in place editing of stream details, etc...) is not broken on the first page.
Version 0.3 introduces:
- the script works on more pages
- it’s now possible to temporarily disable the auto pagination
- cleaner code, and faster page introduction
Version 0.2 fixes a bug in the number of page computation. It also introduces new pagination links on the left of the screen. It still have known bugs...

Date of online publication: 18 April 2007
last-update: 30 November 2008
Keywords : Flickr , Greasemonkey

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notes

[1] This script currently supports the following page:

group pool
group discussions
group topic
help forums
help topic
your contacts recent photos
a user photos with a particular tag
everyone’s photos with a tag
tag clusters
your popular-interesting page
your popular-view page
your popular-faves page
your popular-comments page
comments on photos
the users that faved a photo
someone stream
set detail view
set thumb view
recent comments on your photos
comments you’ve made
people search
group search
group discussion search
group pool search (both thumbnail and detail view)
help topic search
photo search (both thumbnail and detail view)
the explore calendar pages
list of favorites
list of contacts
reverse list of contacts
creative commons recent photos
group members

If I forgot any, let me know.

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Think about it.

P.S.

The following scripts will not work on the next pages loaded by this script:

Flickr: Style your contacts 0.5
Flickr: Pool Date 0.5
Flickr Buddy Icon Reply
other scripts I don’t know about that apply to the pages affected by this script.

The edit of the title and description will also be disabled on your stream view for the photos coming from pages after the first one.

18 Forum messages

Flickr Auto Pagination
3 May 2007 09:47, by Toni

This is a great script and I use it daily. But it would be a fantastic addition to consider extending this to comments! As you know, Flickr introduced comments pagination some days ago, so you can’t see all comments to a shot in one single page like before. I found this very annoying! Can you help?? ;))
- Flickr Auto Pagination 3 May 2007 22:59, by Mortimer
  
  Yep, already in the TODO list
- Flickr Auto Pagination 9 May 2007 19:47, by Mortimer
  
  The script has now been updated to include this feature.
  - Flickr Auto Pagination 9 January 2008 14:31, by mark
    
    Is it working for you with search/thumbnail? Here works just with the detailed view...
    - Flickr Auto Pagination 11 January 2008 11:24, by Mortimer
      
      It works fine for me on the search page, thumbnail mode and detail mode.
      
      the only place I found where it’s not implemented yet is the tags pages. If ever I have time, I will fix that.
Flickr Auto Pagination
13 May 2007 02:31, by Logan Koester

Just wanted to take a moment to say I use your script. By way of thanks I created an account at Crestock (actually looks like a pretty cool site) and voted for your photo. Hopefully more people will do the same. Best of luck!
See online : http://logankoester.com
Flickr Auto Pagination 0.9
19 August 2007 15:08

Hi- I have Greasemonkey installed and downloaded and installed your script but it doesn’t work for me.

When I get to the end of the page, I can see on the left that it’s fetching the new pages (the blue & pink balls are moving) and above that there’s the list of pages... but the new pages never load. I just stay at the last pic on the page. Firefox 2.06, Mac OSX & the latest Greasemonkey.

Is it supposed to work with a search on flickr? That’s what I’m trying it with.

Thanks.
- Flickr Auto Pagination 0.9 22 August 2007 13:58, by Mortimer
  
  It is working for me on a simple search with no problems.
  
  Is it working on other pages than the search page for you?
Flickr Auto Pagination 0.9
30 December 2007 00:49

Hi, small typo on the list of pages it works on. http://*flickr.com/explore/intersting/* should be http://*flickr.com/explore/interesting/*

Love this script!
Flickr Auto Pagination 0.9
13 January 2008 17:34, by dash

Thanks for that wonderful script mate!

I was been wondering, if its possible to modify this script, so it would scroll multiple pages at once, instead of just the next one? Could you help me here?
- Flickr Auto Pagination 0.9 16 January 2008 11:55, by Mortimer
  
  It won’t be that difficult I suppose. Maybe not very friendly on the Flickr servers though.
  
  Right now, I have not time to implement it, but if you do it, let me know.
Flickr Auto Pagination 0.9
22 January 2008 14:53, by James Chao

It works great in firefox 2.0.0.11, but not works in firefox 3.0b2. It will help firefox to preload images in next page, but won’t expanding the images when I scroll down to the bottom of page. And display quickly when I open next page.
- Flickr Auto Pagination 0.9 23 January 2008 01:03, by Mortimer
  
  I am sorry, I haven’t started testing Firefox 3 and won’t have time for a while, I think I’ll wait for it to be released and have most of the extensions I already use compatible with it.
  
  If no one else figure it out, I am sorry, but it will have to wait for a bit
- Flickr Auto Pagination 0.9 28 March 2008 19:21, by Mortimer
  
  I am now running Firefox 3b4 and I was seeing this with only the Favorites page. It should be fixed in the version 1.0, just reinstall the script.
  - Flickr Auto Pagination 0.9 (add-on) 14 June 2008 17:35, by Mike
    
    I used a script compiler to convert this script to an addon in firefox (works with 3.0.*). I attributed all credit to you. I would use greasemonkey but didn’t want the overhead of greasemonkey for just one script. For those who are interested, see https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6325
    See online : Firefox Flickr auto page extension
    - Flickr Auto Pagination 0.9 (add-on) 15 June 2008 12:56, by Mortimer
      
      Excellent! thank you. I am planning an extension with all the different improvements I’ve done... whenever I get time.
Flickr Auto Pagination 1.1
5 October 2008 18:10, by Ania

Hi, I really like this extension

There is only one small bug in it... when you view your contact’s photostream which is in detail view with big tumbnails... then next pages are not in these same view

you can see it here http://images36.fotosik.pl/17/765fe9c7411322f0med.jpg
- Flickr Auto Pagination 1.1 7 October 2008 19:05, by Mortimer
  
  Actually, it’s not really a bug
  
  The pagination script only fetch the next page provided by Flickr. And in this case, Flickr provides a page with small thumbnails (try it without the pagination script, you’ll see), so the script shows this page.

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