Flickr Easy Photo Post

A few tools already exist [1] to post photos into comments on Flickr.com, but they all need you to cut and paste some obscure code snippet.

This is hardly practical when you want to post more than one photo, can be prone to error and well, didn’t fully suit me.

Yet Another Way To Post Photo In Comments | 2 March 2007, by Mortimer

So, as usual, I open my little code editor, loaded the greasemonkey template and started hacking Flickr.

This script will remember the 15 last photos [2] you have visited and display their thumbnail over every comment box on Flickr.

Get Firefox
Install GreaseMonkey
restart Firefox
If you liked the script, think about helping me back and consider a small donation, click the paypal button on the right.
Click on the following icon and select "Install"

6631 download(s) since 25 July 2007

You can select the size you want to post and then click on the thumbnail of the photo of interest to insert the obscure voOdOo code in the comment field. You can repeat that for all the photos you want, and you are done.

So how would you use it?

visit the photo you want to post somewhere else,
go to the discussion where you want to post,
click on "Post a photo...",
select the size,
click on the thumbnail of the shot you want,
post the comment.

1Localisations

The script is now localised in French and English and partly translated in 繁體中文, Deutsch, Español, 한글 and Português . To help finish the translations, please see Help localise Flickr scripts

Date of online publication: 2 March 2007
last-update: 10 May 2008
Keywords : Flickr , Greasemonkey
Forum messages 21
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notes

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[2] This number can be changed by editing the script and changing the value line 47.

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Think about it.

P.S.

If you opened a photo in another tab and it doesn’t appear in the list of thumbnails, try reloading the photo page, then the discussion page.

If you are interested in using this on Ipernity, please go and check: Ipernity Easy Photo Post. Note that I am not the creator or maintainer of the Ipernity script.

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21 Forum messages

Flickr Easy Photo Post
6 March 2007 23:53, by L8o

..finally!! Thanks M!

:`) xoxo

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- Flickr Easy Photo Post 23 July 2008 12:58, by Niller
  
  There’s something alot easyer, when you watch your photo, then click on the semi-transparent icon "Share this" rigt below the search bar. when you click on it, a menu appeares. then click Embed it, and copy the text, Voila!
  
  But that will only work with your own pics..
  
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  - Flickr Easy Photo Post 13 October 2009 13:01
    
    Thanks man that was so helpful, it did work with me as well, I’m using google chrome I was about to install firefox to be able posting comments with Medium size!!
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Flickr Easy Photo Post
18 April 2007 08:32, by Twitch

Thanks so much! I use this all the time now.
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Flickr Easy Photo Post
20 April 2007 18:50, by Geoffrey Spear

There appears to be a bug in this script; it’s adding an extra / to the URL in the link added to the photo.

This can be corrected by editing line 171 to remove the / after "www.flickr.com"

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- Flickr Easy Photo Post 30 April 2007 03:04
  
  This script makes flickrQuoter not function.
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Flickr Easy Photo Post
23 May 2007 23:20, by Saynine

Thank you for all of your scripts. I send everyone I know here for my list of Must Have GM scripts.
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- Flickr Easy Photo Post 29 July 2007 08:48, by BillyWarhol
  
  U are amazing*
  
  Thank U!!
  
  ;))
  
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Flickr Easy Photo Post
30 October 2007 14:43, by WouterKvG

Definitly the best of all these "get the photo" scripts!

Thanks You!

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Flickr Easy Photo Post
7 November 2007 03:02

Fantastic script. Thanks.
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Flickr Easy Photo Post
23 November 2007 11:08, by jbrunerwa

I have greasemonkey and the script installed but I don’t see the "add photo to ..." link when I visit a discussion group? When I check the script via "Manager user scripts" it says it’s enabled and seems to have the correct list of URLs. Any ideas why this is not working for me?
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- Flickr Easy Photo Post 23 November 2007 15:36, by Mortimer
  
  Ok, it seems to be working for me. You know you have to visit the photo you want to post, and then go back to where you want to post it for it to appear in the list (and if the list is empty, then post photo won’t appear).
  If you had the group discussion open in another tab when you did that, you probably need to reload the page to get the thing updated.
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  - Flickr Easy Photo Post 24 November 2007 05:11, by jbrunerwa
    
    I think I’m doing everything correctly as far as how to use it? Is there a way for me to tell whether it’s an empty list (which I wouldn’t expect since I’m looking at valid photos) or not? Is there something that I can check in my setup or system configuration? Does it make a difference that I’m running Firefox on a MAC?
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  - Flickr Easy Photo Post 30 November 2007 05:29
    
    Are you using a MAC by any chance? Has anyone gotten this to work on MAC OSX with firefox?
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    - Flickr Easy Photo Post 30 November 2007 10:57, by Mortimer
      
      I am using a MAC with OS X 10.4 and Firefox >2.0 and it works fine for me.
      
      Could you open:
      
      disable all of the greasemonkey script you have except this one,
      Firefox javascript console, (tools>error console)
      clear the content of the console,
      go to a flickr photo page and see what errors show up in the console.
      
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      - Flickr Easy Photo Post 17 March 2009 19:19, by chicadecasa
        
        I am having the same problem. I did the "error console" and it came up with a whole bunch of errors after clicking on one flickr picture. Here are a few of them:
        
        Warning: Error in parsing value for property ’cursor’. Declaration dropped. Source File: http://l.yimg.com/g/css/c_fold_main.css.v69151.64777.67965.14 Line: 1
        
        Warning: Expected declaration but found ’*’. Skipped to next declaration. Source File: http://l.yimg.com/g/css/c_fold_main.css.v69151.64777.67965.14 Line: 1
        
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        Flickr Easy Photo Post 15 April 2009 09:52, by Mortimer
        
        these are not errors related to the script. You have to clear the console, and only show javascript errors after a reload.
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Flickr Easy Photo Post
24 January 2008 15:23, by Roberto Ballerini

Thank you very much for taking the time to add a link to my translation to Ipernity of your script. Ciao, Roberto
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Flickr Easy Photo Post
5 March 2008 17:30

Thanks, works beautifully!
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Flickr Easy Photo Post
2 June 2009 18:38, by thefishiologist

This script hasn’t been working for me since the last update. All the photos show up, but when I click on one to include it in a comment, nothing happens.
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- Flickr Easy Photo Post 28 June 2009 23:49, by Mortimer
  
  it’s fixed, just reinstall it.
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