A quick script I just put together for Last.FM event pages. In the photos section, under the machine tag instructions, this script will add a link to go straight to your Flickr archive for the day of the event.
The link URL contains ‘me’ instead of your Flickr username, but Flickr will automatically redirect you if you’re logged in! Even if your not it will take you to the login page and then automatically still take you to the right page.
Assuming you have several photos from that day, you’ll see a link to ‘Edit this page as a batch’ in Organizr, which will allow you to quickly and easily add the machine tag for the event.
Install now from UserScripts.org
A quick post to say that the FlickrMapMonkey script (yes that’s what it’s called now) has been updated. Version 0.3 is now available over on the UserScripts page. According to the stats there it’s now been installed 310 times, which is pretty cool. Of course there’s no guarantee that all those people are still using it, but hey.
Upon it’s initial release, the script generated some healthy discussion over on the Flickr Hacks forum. This brought up a couple of issues, which I haven’t had the chance to investigate yet. The main one seems to be an internationalisation issue, which I guess would be tricky for me to test quickly so that’s kinda put me off trying.
Today I spent half an hour writing my first Greasemonkey script. It’s pretty simple, just displays a little Google Map on a Flickr photo page, with the location of the photo (if available!). I had a look around but couldn’t find an existing script that did this, which was quite surprising. It was made an awful lot easier by the new Google Maps Static API.
Download the ‘Google Map on Flickr photo page’ script here
If anyone can think of a snappier name let me know :)
Now that I think of it, possibly the reason it hasn’t been done before is that the Google Maps Javascript API made it too hard (or even impossible??). Who knows. Anyway, it’s my first attempt at a GM script so its VERY simple and VERY rough. Post any suggestions/ideas in the comments!
Iain
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