Creative Network Recent Uploads - Greasemonkey Script

I miss the old ability to view recent uploads from your creative network. So I wrote a Greasemonkey script to bring it back.

This adds a link to the menu on your Profile page:

Clicking that link will show you images from your Creative Network/Friends recent uploads - up to 10 images per member, and only images uploaded within the last 4 weeks. They're displayed in order of most-recent first.

It takes about 30 seconds for the page of Recent Uploads for the 30 people in my network to finish loading.

It's a bit rough and ready, but it does the job for me. Very briefly tested in Chrome and FireFox.

Download and install the script from http://www.theasis.co.uk/iStock/istock_cn_recent.user.js

If you don't know what Greasemonkey is, Sean tells you in his thread here where he has many useful scripts.

Enjoy!

Edit to add some info about the speed of the page.

(Edited on 2012-03-21 11:53:09 by theasis)

Looks great. I really miss that function. Can't wait to try it out.

since that function left the site, i have visited and explored the site about 75% less than i used to

(Edited on 2012-03-21 08:42:35 by esren)

Just tried it out on Chrome - works a treat.  Took a while to load, but produced a huge page of recent CN/friends uploads.


Thanks Martin for again giving us great extra stuff.

Hey Theasis thanks a lot for sharing it. Unfortunatelly it isn't working here under PC W7 FF 3.6.228. The text doens't show on the left to be clicked.

Aye - my local version has a half-arsed control panel which lets you change the period you consider to be "recent" (which can speed things up a little) and lets you choose people for whom you're not interested in seeing their latest uploads (which can speed things up a lot). But it's too arcane and ugly to include in the initial release. (I know! The king of ugly interfaces thinks it's too ugly. Ironic, no? )

When I get round to cleaning the controls up, it might help things somewhat.

That's a pretty ancient browser, but the script doesn't do anything fancy so I would expect it to work. Especially if you happily run other Greasemonkey scripts.
Are there error messages in the Javascript Console? That might help me make any suggestions.

Hi Theasis, there are a lot of alerts and two errors:
Alerts are refered to unknown properties such as borders, margin, box shadown, text-oferflow and so on at http://i.istockimg.com/static/1332278460/css/f5.css


The 2 errors are related to "wrongly formated" at http://www.istockphoto.com/ajax_tabcontroller.php

I hope that help something. :0)

 

(Edited on 2012-03-22 15:07:31 by lucato)

Thanks Luis.

Those didn't make any sense...I couldn't see how they related to my script. So I installed an old version of Firefox, and now I see the problem...
Those alerts and errors are all from iStock's code, which is why they didn't mean much to me!

But I did find why my script doesn't run for you, and I've put a new version out which should fix it. Download the new version v1.1 from the same place:
http://www.theasis.co.uk/iStock/istock_cn_recent.user.js
No need to uninstall the old version - just install this one over the top of it.

(Anyone happily using v1.0, don't feel you have to upgrade to v1.1 - there's nothing new in there. It won't hurt you, but you won't gain anything either.)

Let me know if that works for you!

Thank you theasis

very useful function, thanks theasis.

Hey Theasis, now it is showing on the left and working ok!
Thanks a lot. I appreciated that.

Have a nice weekend.

Works fine on W7 64 FF 11.0 -  very useful, thanks theasis!