JAFB

If you’re not a Metblogger the below may not be of interest to you. If you are, c’mon in.

With the new engine stripping CSS to protect us from ourselves, some of the automation we’ve grown to enjoy using Flickr has been temporarily removed. I’ve turned to a Greasemonkey script to make my life easier and I made a minor change to it in order to make my posting quicker.

If you don’t use Firefox then I simply feel bad for you. Tough. You are beyond my help.

If you don’t already have Greasemonkey, you can find info on it here. In short it’s an add-on that lets you run some scripts to alter your browsing experience. In this particular case it will make a minor change to a Flickr screen so you can quickly copy & paste some text into a post of your own.

Once it’s installed you can simply click HERE. This is a script I made minor changes to, the original version of which can be found here if you should like to look at it. My changes were minimal - I simplified the auto-generated text to remove the style information (which the MB engine will strip out anyway, the whole reason we have a need for this).

Once the file is installed you can simply browse to a Flickr photo’s all sizes page and you’ll see a little something extra at the bottom, which looks like this:

If you simply copy and paste the text you find in there, you’ll end up with the photo - in whatever of the ‘all sizes’ you are looking at (see the top of the page), linked back to the original photo, with a credit and links below. Like this:

Elise and Crepe IMGP0222_1, courtesy of carlweaver

Now you’ve got an image and link that works in Metblogs AND meets the Flickr attribution guidelines!