Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

Firefox Bookmarklet for Flickr CC Search

Searching Flickr for images licensed under Creative Commons is painfully slow and frustrating. For every new query you have to visit the advanced search page and select the appropriate check boxes before hitting the search button. I've been using Flickr in this way quite a bit lately and so I wanted to find an easier way to achieve this task.

I turned to Google and found this Greasemonkey hack. It looks good and does what I want, however I don't use Greasemonkey and I'm not about to start using it anytime soon. So I ended up creating a quick bookmarklet to do the job instead — I don't know why I didn't do this in the first place, it only took seconds?!

Flickr CC Search

You can install the bookmarklet by dragging it your Firefox "Bookmarks" toolbar.


1 Response to “Firefox Bookmarklet for Flickr CC Search”

  1. Ruth Howard wrote,

    Hi Philip thank you Ive just included this bookmarklet under Creative Common Search Tools (Basic Food Trend Search Skills)post.I'm compiling a resource for later use but open to other students/teachers,plus exercising my new completely non geek but loving blogs braincells!

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