I'm looking for something that will allow me to specify a URL/site and grab all the images on that page. Any tools out there that can help with this?
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BrowseLooking for open source tools that can "scrape" images from html page/websites
By cmsboy - May. 04, 2008
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Add AnswerTry Pandora (http://www.positivespinmedia.com/shareware/Pandora/index.html) - its not open source and costs $29.99 but you can plug it into your site and actually downloads the entire image from the web. You can specify URLs or keywords and it will take care of the rest.
One simple way would be to save the complete page on your computer.
You would observe a folder with all the images in that page along with the html page.
Saving the complete site using wget also will fetch you the images.
The best way would be to start using FireFox.
And then use any of the following addins.
1. Video DownloadHelper
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006
2. FlashGot
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/220
3. BatchDownload
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3104
4. Image Download
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2503
I have ordered them in decreasing number of reviews/ratings. Each one of them have their own features which makes it better than the other. You just might find one of them to help get over your problem.
Let us know your experience with FF and these addons and which one finally you picked.
One thing to be careful about is that some images may be included in the css file and will not be typically included in a 'save-as' operation.
The Firefox Web Developer toolbar can help you find those images. You can save those to a file and then get them via another program like nutch or even a custom file.
By an anonymous user on Oct. 12, 2008
If you want / need the CSS images, use Opera to save the complete page. It will get the CSS images as well!
-4umfreak
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