500px is an online photo community that puts the site’s focus both on social aspects like commenting or rating photos, but also on revenue streams for photographers who can sell their photos on the site. Visitors can explore the various site sections, like upcoming or editor’s choice photos which are displayed as smaller thumbnail images on those pages.
For each photo, information about the camera used to make it are listed, next to user comments, related photos and the photographer’s homepage. Especially the information about the camera settings can be handy for aspiring photographers who have just started taking photos.
Photos can be viewed online, but they cannot be downloaded. When you try to right-click a photo on the site you receive a copyright notification and no context menu.
One of the easiest ways to download photos to your computer, is to disable JavaScript on the site. NoScript users can simply block scripts from running on the main domain to do that. Once done, the normal browser context menu comes up that lets you save photos to your computer right away.
Some users may not have access to add-ons like NoScript to turn off the anti-download protection on the site. That’s where the Simple 500x Download userscript steps in.
The userscript adds a download button to all photo pages on 500px.com. A click on the button opens the photo in a new browser tab from where it can be downloaded to the local computer system. A right-click on the download button and the selection of Save link as saves the photo directly to the computer without opening it up first in a new tab.
It needs to be noted that photos are automatically stored in the browser’s cache when they are viewed on the site. It is therefor theoretically possible to extract them from the browser cache directly.
Have you been to 500px before? If so, what’s your impression of the site?
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