Please read if you link your photo's from Flickr site

[dmdigital]

Flickr has recently changed the layout of their site and you no longer get the URL (link) for the JPEG image shown in a box. Like the following:


http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3568/3784867318_cc2d82f977.jpg

Which could be pasted in to the IMG markup like so:

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2010/08/780.jpg

To produce:
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2010/08/780.jpg

The Flickr terms and conditions actually request you link back to the original image on Flickr. But this is a little difficult on a forum if you don't know what you are doing.

Flickr now provides the HTML link in the Share option for an image. For example:


<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dmdigital/3784867318/"
title="Cradle Mountain by DMdigital, on Flickr"><img
src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3568/3784867318_cc2d82f977.jpg"
width="500" height="334" alt="Cradle Mountain" /></a>

Note the two highlighted portions in blue. If you modify this HTML you can copy from Flickr and paste it in your post as follows:



https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2010/08/780.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/dmdigital/3784867318/)

This produces the following result which if clicked on links back to the Flickr page.

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2010/08/780.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/dmdigital/3784867318/)

In the Flickr FAQ (Flickr: Help: Photos (http://www.flickr.com/help/photos/#2265887)) they mention a BBCode solution is being worked on so hopefully this is a temporary thing.

I also hope this makes sense.

[werdan]

Thanks DM. I've been meaning to write up something like this for yonks but have been too slack. :)


I've written a little utility that will do this automatically. It will only work in windows and is written in .NET so requires the V2.0 Framework which should already be installed if you are using XP onwards.

What it does is monitors the clipboard for Flickr image URLs and then will format it into forum code. You can then paste the code into the forum. It will handle multiple images and also has an option for the non-approved version of img only linking.

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2010/08/1231.jpg

How to Install:

Download, unzip and run. It should just work. If it doesn't, you will probably need to download the .Net framework from here (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5&displaylang=en).

How to use:

- Run the utility and it will start monitoring you clipboard.

- Open up the image on the Flickr page.

- Open the image to the correct size that you want. This is important

- Copy the image URL - (Right-click 'Copy image URL' in Chrome - not sure what it is for other browsers)

The image URL and forum code should appear in the top two boxes.

If that's the only picture..
- select all the text with the mouse and copy using 'Ctrl-c' or 'right-click/copy' (Sorry no button here :) )

If you want to add more images..

- click 'Add to Story'. This will copy the text to the bottom text box with a couple of line breaks.

- Navigate to your next Flickr photo and 'lather-rinse-repeat'

- Once you have finished, click the 'Copy to Clipboard' to copy the entire story to the clipboard ready to be posted into the forum box.

After that, I usually add and format my descriptions with the forum editor. I was going to add them to my code but I'm still too slack. Besides the forum editor works fine. :)

[dmdigital]

Thanks Andrew. Now can you code something up for the Mac ;)

[werdan]

Apple people still use those things? I thought Steve Jobs ordered them to all start using an ipad instead. :)

[WhiteD3]

Stumbled upon a simplification of what Derek first posted.

All you need is the last bit, being 'http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3568/3784867318_cc2d82f977.jpg (less the ' I added to make the code show) to give you this

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2010/08/780.jpg

But maybe this leaves out the flickr link required in their T&Cs?

[dmdigital]

Correct, it leaves out the link