yahoo Image Relinker

By thorbenhauer — Last update Feb 8, 2008 — Installed 3,402 times.

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Nov 17, 2004 1:05am
Jesse Andrews Admin

The following is an archive of comments made before threaded discussions was implemented (November 16th, 2008)
 
Mar 17, 2008 7:35am
thorbenhauer Script's Author

It rewrites yahoo image search links to point straight to the pictures.
 
Mar 15, 2008 10:11am
love prone User

sorry..But what this script do ?
 
Nov 3, 2007 7:11am
thorbenhauer Script's Author

New version up and running. Hopefully without any problems. If so just leave another comment. I'll look into it.
 
Nov 2, 2007 8:35pm
Dan 1 User

This is no longer working as of a few days ago (today is 2007-11-01). Yahoo must have changed some code. Can we get an update?
 
Sep 19, 2007 5:55am
thorbenhauer Script's Author

Thanks Nimit Maru!
You're right! I changed the mentioned line as you've advised.
 
Sep 15, 2007 3:05am
Nimit Maru Scriptwright

Hey, sorry for the late response, I didn't realize you had asked me this question.

The reason the line I suggested works better is that it lets the browser itself do the URI decoding. There are usually more characters to decode than just the "/". For a sample query (this may be different if you try this too many days after I suggest this), try this query in Y! image search: "Coffee Mug Black $10.jpg". It should return just one image. Now try clicking on that img with your line in, and then with my line instead, and you'll see that it breaks with the line that you have.

Hope that helps, thanks!
 
Jun 25, 2007 11:04am
thorbenhauer Script's Author

Hello Nimit! Thank you for your comments. Could you please explain why

link.href = "http://" + decodeURIComponent(decodeURIComponent(ymatch[1]));

works "a lot better"? Do you have some examples on which the code

link.href = "http://" + ymatch[1].replace( /%252F/g , "/");

doesn't work?

In addition, I've removed the question marks, thanks for the hint!
 
Jun 22, 2007 11:10pm
Nimit Maru Scriptwright

Oh yes, you also need to remove the "?" from the end of the urls, because yahoo inserts ylt link tracking on the image search urls.
 
Jun 22, 2007 10:12pm
Nimit Maru Scriptwright

Hey, thanks for the yahoo version of the script. Just wanted to let you know that this script works a lot better in the url decoding when the last line looks like this:

link.href = "http://" + decodeURIComponent(decodeURIComponent(ymatch[1]));
 
Aug 10, 2006 5:10pm
thorbenhauer Script's Author

:-)
 
Aug 10, 2006 3:09pm
Dan 1 User

Woohoo!!!! Nice!!!
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