09Jun 07
SlideFlickr, embed Flickr Slideshows in less than 10”!
Published by stelabouras in Internet, Software, Tech
At the beginning of May, Flickr launched their new flash slideshow viewer with a new interface and larger picture sizes, allowing people to view their slideshows in a whole new way comparing to the previous tool that had some limitations.
Couple of weeks after this announcement, I thought that it would be cool if anyone could have the opportunity to create a custom slideshow with the option to embed it in their own blog-site-myspace page. That’s how Slideflickr was originally created. I started playing with Flickr API for the database queries and the whole idea seemed pretty easy and sexy. After some tests I released the aplha version of Slideflickr which was generating iframe code for anyone interested. Although this version generated a lot of problems with Internet Explorer & Opera users, Slideflickr was accepted by a lot of people so I had to find a work around, asking and reading for a week or so.
I am happy to announce the beta version of Slideflickr, which is working perfectly in every browser, generating <embed> code for every site!
Slideflickr gives you the opportunity to gather all or some selected photos from flickr (via specific url / set selection and tag support) and then customize the Flickr slideshow viewer to your needs by altering it’s dimensions or the messages shown.
The whole procedure is rather easy and it could take you less than 10 seconds, feel free to comment for requests, bugs or anything else you want to concerning Slideflickr here!
Below you can see some test posts with embedable Slideflickr in Blogger, Pblogs, Myspace. WordPress.com for security reasons doesn’t allow <embed> tags but I hope I will find some solution there!
Comments (35)
Really nice and fast way to get a flickr slideshow. Try cleaning up the code a bit though to make it XHTML valid (: Also why not adding ‘tags’ to the list of options? flickr’s API is quite flexible!
Thanks for the comment Marios!
SlideFlickr’s code is XHTML valid and I will probably validate the code of the embeddable player as well.
As for the tags, there are actually implemented inside “Advanced Options” choice!
Very nice work! I ll use it for sure.
Great domain too ;)
very nice and thank you
THANKS for this =D
a suggestion would be to add more options such as sorting (though it can be done by inserting manually into the embed code).
and i wonder if it’s possible
(i) to change the background colour from black to white, and
(ii) to decrease the height of the description box.
thanks again!
Thanks for your comments!
@laihiu
I will take your suggestions under consideration, especially the background color chooser seems a pretty nice feature!
presently trying at the base of the blog page but as ever it helps reads to have the page to load as fast as poss so maybe an expandable script might useful thx again
Oh, you are here. I just wrote an email to you.
Since I posted your tool on my blog, I’ve been asked about: is it possible to have an option to stop “auto-play” slideshow at the beginning? I personally think your tool can fulfill my needs already but since somebody asked, I just pass this question to you.
I’m searching for the same thing from PigTailLeo !!!
Please ! Help us !
New version is being developed and this option will be implemented, sorry for the delay, I will post about the new version of Slideflickr soon, in Slidefickr Blog!
Tune in for more!
Good Job,
Right now, the image is appearing small in the slideflickr player, how do i fill the player with the image?
slow la bro……
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