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!
@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.
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 ;)
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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Hamish Macpherson
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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!
11 months ago
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Jonathan Mazaltov
Freaking awesome, thanks!
11 months ago
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Alex Pankratov
Would be nice to have this in a form of Firefox add-on. Just sayin'.
11 months ago
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Aaron Allen
the download link isn't working :(
11 months ago
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Joshua Krohn
Holy moly, this is awesome! Thanks, dude!
11 months ago
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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.
11 months ago
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Aaron Allen
Awesome thanx
11 months ago
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Adi Hezral
this is nice thanks
11 months ago
Epic!
11 months ago
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Morgan Allan Knutson
Well done, man!
11 months ago
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Kevin Andersson
Very nice!
11 months ago
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Mike Gottschalk
Awesome idea, thanks for the extension!
11 months ago
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Emir Ayouni | Growcase
how did I ever manage to miss out on this. thank you, sir. you are a gorilla!
11 months ago
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João Oliveira Simões
WOW!!! You are amazing! Just installed and it works fine on the RockMelt browser! Thank you!
11 months ago
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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 ;)
10 months ago
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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.
10 months ago