Scarfing Flickr Images
Posted on March 9, 2006
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My gf was trying to grab an image of puppies or kitties or something off of Flickr for a Photoshop contest she was entering and discovered that Flickr makes a whole-hearted attempt to protect user’s images throug the clever use of layers of divs.
I, knowing that once it’s in the browser window nothing is safe, found it interesting for a bit and then promptly forgot about if for about two months until I was wide awake on the couch at 3am this morning dead tired of writing docs but unable to fall asleep.
“Perhaps I’ll see if I can figure out that Flickr issue” thought I, “how complicated can it be?”
Well, turns out that if J.Q. la Poutre goes and does most of the work for me, it’s not that complicated at all. All I had to do was strip a chunk of his code out, re-arrange a bit and ta-da:
Drag that into your Firefox bookmarks bar and you should be good to go.
(scarf, definition 1)
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