Andy Chase

I’m rediscovering Flickr after dabbling with it briefly last summer, and one of the first things that irked me was the inability to do simple ad hoc, multiple tag searches within Flickr URLs. With del.icio.us it’s easy;

http://del.icio.us/tag/foo+bar+bat

With Flickr it’s not really that much harder:

http://flickr.com/photos/search/tags:foo%2Cbar%2Cbat/tagmode:all/

But it’s certainly a lot more typing, and more URL syntax to memorize.

After Googling unsuccessfully for an existing bookmarklet for multi-tag searches, I put together a couple of my own. They’re very simple; they just prompt you for a comma-separated list of tags and build the appropriate search URL for you. The first one will do a search for public photos that match ALL of the tags specified, the second will do a search for public photos that match ANY of the tags specified.

• Flickr Multi-tag Search (All)

• Flickr Multi-tag Search (Any)

Drag these to your browser bookmarks toolbar, and have fun!