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  • March 6, 2005

    Google Images Re-Linker

    Filed under: firefox extensions — Eric @ 11:44 am

    This will let you click the thumbnail images on images.google.com, skip the referred framed page, and jump straight to the full-size image.

    Install Google Images Re-Linker 0.3
    (Size: 6kb Release Date: October 30th 2005)
    Tested on Firefox 0.9 - 1.5b1 and Flock developer preview.



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    83 Responses to “Google Images Re-Linker”

    1. Zilla Smash! Says:

      More Monkey Business

      In my attempt to make GreaseMonkey do everything ever related to page rewriting in Firefox, I converted roachfiend’s Google Images Re-linker to a GreaseMonkey script.

      I just got his permission to post this, so you can snag it here. It’s purpose …

    2. Tivac Says:

      One of the GreaseMonkey guys left a comment on my blog about my implementation of this and made a really good suggestion. He pointed out that instead of using a regex to replace any space characters there was a javascript function that would do the job for any specially-encoded characters.

      Basically, it was replacing this: googLinks[x].href = gmatch[1].replace(/\%2520/g,’%20′);

      With this: googLinks[x].href = decodeURI(gmatch[1]);

      I’ve tried it out in my script and it appears to work, but I didn’t notice a problem before either. :)

    3. Eric Says:


      That’s a good suggestion, I’ll look into it to see if it works okay. That way if any other special character found itself in a photo caption it would be taken care of as well.


    4. Eric Says:


      Ok, upped the version to 0.1.2 with the new decodeURI function, thanks for the suggestion, Tivac.


    5. MMMDI Says:

      Excellent extension, but I had an idea / suggestion that would, in my eyes at least, make it that much better. I’m on dial-up, so a full page of Google Image results takes somewhere in the range of thirty seconds - one minute to fully load. Now, I’m not sure if this is a known behavior or not, but your extension won’t work until the results page (including thumbnails) has fully loaded… so if the picture I want is in the first row of results, your extension is useless unless I wait for the entire page to load.

      So, my question / suggestion… would it be possible to have it auto-rewrite the image URL’s as the page loads instead of waiting until the page has completely loaded?

    6. Eric Says:


      Unfortunately this isn’t possible, to my knowledge. The script does a mass search and replace, and it only loads after the page is complete.

      What you can do, however, is use a third-party proxy filtering software like Privoxy or Proxomitron. These will allow you to do complex search and replace features before and/or during a page load.


    7. MMMDI Says:

      ahh, now that makes some sense. I’ll check out the programs you suggested and see if I can get either to work out on my setup. Thanks!

    8. fuscia Says:

      how do i override the image relinker, if i want to see the source site?

    9. Richard Says:

      Hi there,

      I often use images.google.co.uk, but the extension only seems to work on images.google.com. Would it be possible to have the extension work on images.google.* ?

      Cheers

    10. Eric Says:


      Richard, it has supported all variants of google images since 0.1.

      images.google.co.uk works for me.


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    12. JBloggs Says:

      Hey, this is pretty cool, but sometimes it’s nice to see the original page, so…
      could you make the green URL text under the images link to the page the image was found on? Sometimes whats shown gets shortend so a copy & paste job won’t work, nor plain-txt-to-url extensions.

    13. Reneé Says:

      Doesn’t seem to work on the first google image link anytime you search (the one in the upper left corner). Apart from that, great extension!

    14. gareth Says:

      Nice extension, removes a real pain in the ass behaviour. Seems to conflict with one of my other ext’s though - I use rocker mouse clicks to navigate back and forward through pages, and if I open a google thumbnail and then navigate back to the google thumb page using my “back” rocker gesture, I can’t then click on any of the other images. I use All In One Gestures to costomize my mouse clicks so I assume that’s where the conflict is, not sure if this problom would surface with other extensions that enable rocker gestures.

      Anyway, not grumbling, just giving heads up in case you feel it’s worthy of looking at.

      Thanks for the ext, and your others :)

    15. no-sweat Says:

      I second that suggestion… suggestion being -

      Hey, this is pretty cool, but sometimes it’s nice to see the original page, so…
      could you make the green URL text under the images link to the page the image was found on? Sometimes whats shown gets shortend so a copy & paste job won’t work, nor plain-txt-to-url extensions.

    16. icewind Says:

      some websites are protecting thier images directly opened by other websites (hotlinking). is it possible, to add a link, that opens the images with the google-frame?

      maybe link the green text below the images?

      i tried a bit, but i don’t get it work :(

    17. S Says:

      Is there a similar script avaliable for Yahoo image search?

      Thanks

    18. Joe Says:

      You said in regards to rewriting image URLs on the fly, “Unfortunately this isn’t possible, to my knowledge. The script does a mass search and replace, and it only loads after the page is complete.”

      I’ve used CustomizeGoogle extension, and it somehow does rewrite the URLs while the images load. I hope you find a way to rewrite the URLs, because I don’t like using CustomizeGoogle.

    19. Wohnung mieten Wohung Says:

      Sorry to go a bit off topic, all my searches for bugmenot lead here.
      Can anyone post the url where i can download this extension ?

    20. Eric Says:


      Go to the top of the page and click on “extensions”. Then you’ll find it among the rest of them.


    21. girrl88 Says:

      Nice work!

    22. Darren Says:

      Eric,

      For future build of this extension, is it possible to include a relinker to Google and Yahoo’s Image and Video?

      Btw, I love this extension!

    23. Anonymous Says:

      So very glad I found this truly great site :-)

    24. John Says:

      My all-time favorite extension, warts and all. Thanks for the good work.

    25. JiN Says:

      I just tried to install this extension but wasn’t able to. But when I went to Image.Google…It looks like google has already implemented something like this. It now has 2 links just underneath the image…[Origin Image] which takes you straight to the pic…and [Origin Page] which takes you straight to the page the image comes from.

    26. JiN Says:

      Or has this extension been install into my firefox…? I don’t see the extension in the list…hmmm. If it’s already been installed…Great Job…it is the best extension….but why did firefox say that It wasn’t able to install the extension…and it’s not on the list?

    27. Luigi Salvatori Says:

      This is one of my favourite and most beloved extensions, though sometimes it is fun to see the page containing the image (but it’s easy to play with the addess bar…)
      I just installed the new 0.3 version, but cannot find a “what’s new” list, apart from the “Flock” thing.

      Go on, Eric!

    28. Michael Says:

      JiN, it’s because you’ve already have CustomizeGoogle installed, wich has the “Google Image Re-Linker” code included and also adds both “Origin Image” and “Origin Page” to the Google Images Search page.

    29. Pedro Says:

      Hi Eric,
      I think that this extension is really useful. I would like to propose you a version a little modified. I have used a tutorial to make the description translatable. This way the description changes with language of the browser. If you want to contact me I can give you my modified file but if you prefer you can find here (http://goofy37.perso.cegetel.net/tutolocdescEn.html) the simply guide that I have used.
      Thanks in advance
      Luca Pedrazzi aka Pedro

    30. Paul Krenz Says:

      Will this work with Firefox 1.5 (final)? Thanks and keep up the good work! :-)

    31. KiZ Says:

      Could you add support for other countries? Like images.google.co.uk?

      Thanks, great extentions.

    32. textExpanser Says:

      There is the bug: url-encoded links.
      As I see, Google URL-encode links like
      website.com/images.cgi?img=001&size=big
      into
      website.com/images.cgi%3Fimg%3D001%26size%3Dbig

      So, your plugin should not copy links directly, but decode the image links before.

    33. yuri Says:

      yo dudes i tried it and i think its brill thanks lol i use it in school and its gr8

    34. size_mick Says:

      Would it be possible to modify this extension to do something along the same lines, but not for image searching: I could really use an extension for google web search that takes you straight to the “cached text only” version of a page when you click on the “cached” link, instead of the normal cached copy?

    35. pochal Says:

      Question. The frame in google images. when you click a thumbnail and the page frames, does the website the image comes from go through google to get to you, or does it have you link directly to the site?

    36. Hemant S Says:

      gr8 script

    37. Kumar Says:

      This is a nice extension, but you should just get CustomizeGoogle. It does this and musch more. You can find it at the Mozilla Add-Ons Website (http://addons.mozilla.com)

    38. Media Mingle Says:

      The best place to go for this is http://www.mediamingle.com This is the google image search with images that load up on the same screen.

    39. Dan Says:

      Finally found a download link for Ketjap 1.0 (there’s not one and the referenced link above), but it doesn’t seem to do the Yahoo Images re-linking correctly.

      Whenever I click on a Yahoo thumbnail image, it takes me to a W3C page talking about HTTP?? (http://www.w3.org/Protocols/)

      Any ideas?

    40. colbert Says:

      this is a great plugin that people will like. Too bad my wife hates the roach on the bottom right

    41. Elizabeth Lock Says:

      I’m afraid that this plugin has been causing crashes on my machine when I scroll rapidly through larger webpages. Let me know if you want details to debug it; I’m using Mozilla 1.5.0.7. with loads of other plugins, so it may be conflicting with one of them in some way. Sorry to be so negative!

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    46. Amos Shapira Says:

      Just a general question about modifying this extension - I’d like to base a completely new extension on your code (with credit, of course) would if work for me to just unzip the .xpi and .jar files and edit away then re-zip the files or do I need any other files outside the .xpi in order to achieve this?

      Thanks.

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    48. Chris Says:

      Any chance of getting an updated version for Firefox 2.x?

      Thx!

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      Hey, it would be very nice if you could make a Firefox 2.0 compatible Version of this Extension!

      Thanks,

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    81. jooliaan Says:

      Is there a chance to have Google Images Re-Linker working with Firefox 3?

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      Thanks!

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    83. aires69uk Says:

      Well I can get it to install. What it no longer does is actually work. Shame. But then again the Google Images tweak in the Customize Google addon doesn’t work either. [shrugs]

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