Linking to Flickr - my way!

[philbirch]

This is how I can copy links from Flickr, by a backdoor method. I use Chrome browser, I've tried it with I.E but the code is different and I cant find the links.

Open your image in flickr then right click and select view page source and click on it.



You are presented with a bloated html page,



scroll down a little and you will see the image code in the centre of the page. Image code looks like a web address, and indeed if you click on it the image will open. The bottom link is the photo, the top one is the thumb (low-res)

[philbirch]

Part 2
Right click and copy link address, make sure only the code between the  "  " 's is selected



open the insert image box in the toolbar, paste it in.



Ta Daahh!!

[genazzano]

Thanks for this help, Phil.

David

[daveh]

tyntesfield_1722 by Dave-H, on Flickr


Flickr worked quite well till they started beggering around with it several months back. There is now no direct link (easily visible), but a link back to the page.

Bring up the required photo.
Press the ARROW that points right (the SHARE button).
Bring up the size you want.
Click BBCode (on its page, not here).
Copy and paste to the page on this forum:
tyntesfield_1722 by Dave-H, on Flickr

The photo itself is the correctly entered link: in the example above I have added in a space after [url to show what the file looks like.


EDIT in spite of the space it is still bringing it up as the photo: strange, a space usually stops things working properly. I'll try to disable it so just the text shows. First off I'll type in qwe where url should be.
[qwe=https://flic.kr/p/oRbPfm][/url][qwe=https://flic.kr/p/oRbPfm]tyntesfield_1722[/url] by Dave-H, on Flickr

Shiver me timbers, that still doesn't disable the photo coming up, but it does show the text. I've just realised in the middle of the text there is an [/ img] - farm6.staticflickr.com/5578/14996467260_00db2faaf9_c.jpg[/ img] which is why it still comes up.

Therefore if you just extract the img part of the command the photo should show without the other guff

Here it is freestanding (the space removed from.....[/ img]


Final edit: This last one works without a link back to the page (so, I presume, you don't get a view each time it's seen).

[daveh]

Well that works. I was going to say it's all done in a few easy steps (but, as I say, flickr has had more changes this year then there have been Queens of England).

Amended sequence of commands:

Bring up the required photo.
Press the ARROW that points right (the SHARE button).
Bring up the size you want.
Click BBCode (on its page, not here).
Copy and paste to the page on this forum. (Delete all but the img part if you don't want to link to the original page - or just only copy that part in the first place.)

[philbirch]

hurrah easy. Thanks Dave. I dont use it any more but some pics are still up there

[daveh]

I've got too many photos on there (flickr) not to use it, especially now there is 1TB of storage on the full package, but that storage has to be image or video files. That said I don't know if it will accept a file which has been renamed as .jpg (even though it's say .exe). I presume not, though I have been meaning to try it. As I have said above, flickr did go through a period of changes (and change back for some things) with much common sense being left behind at times. It could be so much better, and easier to use too, if only the programmers got their fingers out.

I have had a problem for a while with the running of flickr. On my main computer there is a fair bit of flickr that I can neither see nor access. If I log in as Administrator I can see it all, but another hiccup arises and it doesn't run smoothly there either. I presume it's something in my computer which is clogging up the works, but it is only since they started fiddling round with it that those problems have arisen.

There is a programme, bulkr, which will download some or even all of the photos from your own pages.

If I want to post a photo quickly I tend to use photobucket. It's much quicker to get the code than it is from flickr.

[mickeyobe]

Phil,

I am truly impressed.
But not induced.
Too complicated for this cave man.
Photobucket has been greatly improved and is, for me, much simpler.

Mickey (aka Glog the Neanderthal)

[philbirch]

Theres too much going on with Flickr, Its ok to show family photos to members overseas but complicated and messy now. I had no idea you could just click the arrow and get a link. There are too many obscure 'clickables' on the site that take you somewhere else. I gave up photobucket as a site to put photoa on as that became complicated and pop-up ads all over the place.

I now use fotki.com. You open up the site, go to my albums, select which you want and drag & drop your photos right into to the album. No upload interface. refresh your page and bingo there they are. Downside, photos are re-sized, but for illustrative purposes they are just fine. All pictures of mine are done through fotki now. I use the free service, there is a lot I cant do but I can have unlimited albums each with unlimited images. Thje pro is not expensive and you can do so much more. I intend to upgrade soon.

[daveh]

Phil, you're spot on with flickr. It was never the best set up, but recent improvements have made it words, especially so as just about every time you visited there seemed to be another version. Another thing that caused a problem, to me anyway, was that what showed on screen was different on different computers. (Certainly at one stage that was true, I must recheck.)

I used to use the "one with the frog" (can't think of its name at present). Then they introduced a fee if you had more than a couple of hundred photos, so it seemed sensible to use flickr. When that started being really awkward I tired a few others and settled on Photobucket. As you say there are too many ads. Maybe I'll fotki a try.

The trouble is just when something seems to be just what is needed they improve it and it becomes less user friendly. Or , even worse, they start wanting to charge a fee. flickr pro is reasonably priced for its storage size. Any other site would have to be significantly better for me to change to it. And then if I did it would be changed and I would feel the need to go somewhere else.

Dave.