Dribbble Following Me – Chrome Extension v1.0

18 Responses

1. Hamish Macpherson

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   January 2013 — !!! THIS PLUGIN IS NO LONGER SUPPORTED/WORKING !!!
   Click here for a WORKING version by Alex P.
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   Download v1.0 Here
   (Requires Google Chrome)
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   I thought Joshua's idea of "... is following you" was so clever that I spent a good part of my day working on this extension to do just what he outlined; that is, show a small icon when the dribbbler you're viewing is following you.

   Making this was a great opportunity to practice some JavaScript and Chrome Extension building (a first for me!) It wouldn't be possible without the Dribbble API.

   v1.0 Technical Notes:
   - Currently works on 'shots' pages only. Not profiles yet.
   - The 'follow' status is cached (12 hrs) so as to avoid hammering the API if, for example, you view several shots from the same user in a short period of time.
   - The more people a user follows, the longer this takes to run, this is because dribbble's API only allows you to request 30 at a time.
   - There's no options page or interface icon yet. You can disable/enable it from the chrome://extensions page.
   - Original idea & Icon design credit goes to Joshua, thanks mate!

   I'm open to any feedback or feature requests. Let me know!

   almost 2 years ago

2. Jonathan Mazaltov

   Freaking awesome, thanks!

   almost 2 years ago

3. Pro Alex Pankratov

   Would be nice to have this in a form of Firefox add-on. Just sayin'.

   almost 2 years ago

4. Aaron Allen

   the download link isn't working :(

   almost 2 years ago

5. Pro Joshua Krohn

   Holy moly, this is awesome! Thanks, dude!

   almost 2 years ago

6. Hamish Macpherson

   @Jonathan: Thanks! Glad you like it.
   @Alex: Perhaps when I have more time. I don't imagine it would be too hard to port over.
   @Aaron: Try it again. If you still have no luck let me know and I can email it to you.
   @Joshua: No problem man! Thanks for the inspiration.

   almost 2 years ago

7. Aaron Allen

   Awesome thanx

   almost 2 years ago

8. Pro Adi Hezral

   this is nice thanks

   almost 2 years ago

9. Bas Prass

   Epic!

   almost 2 years ago

10. Pro Morgan Allan Knutson

    Well done, man!

    almost 2 years ago

11. Kevin Andersson

    Very nice!

    almost 2 years ago

12. Pro Mike Gottschalk

    Awesome idea, thanks for the extension!

    almost 2 years ago

13. Pro Emir Ayouni

    how did I ever manage to miss out on this. thank you, sir. you are a gorilla!

    almost 2 years ago

14. Pro João Oliveira Simões

    WOW!!! You are amazing! Just installed and it works fine on the RockMelt browser! Thank you!

    almost 2 years ago

15. Jonathan Mazaltov

    Now that Lion is out, it has made me switch to Safari out of the new awesomeness (feature wise). Being that this was one of the most useful plugins for me on Chrome, I would love to see a port to Safari. Thanks again for the work you have done ;)

    almost 2 years ago

16. Hamish Macpherson

    Thanks for the love guys!
    I've put the extension on GitHub:
    https://github.com/hamstu/dribbble-following-me

    When I have more time I would love to port it over to Safari and Firefox. Safari would be a lot easier since the extension architecture is very similar to Chrome.

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    almost 2 years ago

17. Pro Tanveer Junayed 

    Why it's not working now? Using Mountain Lion and Chrome 23.0.

    5 months ago

18. Hamish Macpherson

    @Tanveer Junayed  : Thanks for your interest! I'm guessing something has changed to break the extension. Fortunately the supremely talented @Alex Pankratov has a much better version of this extension available here: http://dribbble.com/shots/753356-isFollower — let me know if that works for you.

    5 months ago