Software for downloading images?

[Buzby]

We have taken on a new range which the company are happy to supply images for all their products for us to use on our own website.

They have given us an online source for the images which are well over a thousand products. To get the image we have to click the thumbnail and right click on the image to save.

I am now extremely bored with doing this as well as starting to suffer from repetitive strain.

Can anyone suggest any software that would allow me just to point it at the site and it would download the lot?

Many thanks for your help.

Kind regards

JAson

[leehack]

You can do it yourself with some clever html, create a page which links to each of the products, upload the page and then you have them all in one place and it's 100 times quicker.

I understand your feelings, i had to recently do it with 1400 products, which was what drove me to find something else.

[Mark H]

I'm surprised they can't just pop them on a CD and send them to you - they obviously have them filed on a PC.

[fleetwood]

You can do it yourself with some clever html, create a page which links to each of the products, upload the page and then you have them all in one place and it's 100 times quicker.

hiya Lee

As this is a job I have to do for a couple of hundred products on a weekly basis, I'm intrigued to find an easier solution than click and save.

Could you please explain the clever html bit in a bit more detail.
If I have to create a link to each product, thats just as much of a palarva as click and save.
Am I missing something here?

[Cheapprices4u]

teleport pro

an old offline browser

you can copy entire websites or just images etc etc

and there are ways to use it past its limitations

http://www.tenmax.com/teleport/pro/

been using it for years to get images and text and designs from sites i like

[fergusw]

There are several bits of software out there than will let you grab a whole website to your local PC, images and all.
Try searching for Webgrab or something similar.

You normally get a trial of these that you can use.

This would download all the images from their site which you could then easily play with locally.

[leehack]

hiya Lee

As this is a job I have to do for a couple of hundred products on a weekly basis, I'm intrigued to find an easier solution than click and save.

Could you please explain the clever html bit in a bit more detail.
If I have to create a link to each product, thats just as much of a palarva as click and save.
Am I missing something here?

Hi Martin

This is a typical page that i needed to grab. I needed to get the part numbers, the descriptions and the large images that sit behind each image (if you click on a thumbnail and then click on the image on the next screen, that was the image i needed. So i copy-paste the whole page into excel and remove the crap and i have around 20 formulas already formed to do things such as remove spaces, convert to title case etc.

I then need to find out where the large images (the one on the pop ups) are stored and how they are named, so i select one and find its properties - that tells me how they are named and where they are located. I then use excel and create a formula which produces a complete <p> tag with an image tag inside of it. I replicate this formula down the page and the <p> and <img> tags are formed automatically. Once produced i copy the excel contents into dreamweaver and upload, on visiting the page i uploaded i am then presented with a page full of all of the images i want, one click per photo instead of 6. I right click each one and name them at that stage to what i want them to be (they are normally very close on what i want, so usually a copy-paste) and save into a dummy folder.

I then run a batch process on that folder which also puts them into the correct folder in actinic and then import the spreadsheet i formed at the same time.

Its kind of hard to explain in text and you're probably thinking stuff that, sounds so long winded, but it really is a quick process. Takes me just a few minutes. If i wasn't picky on image names, i would then use a website scraper to scrape my page and grab all of the images.

[Buzby]

I have just found this software "Super image finder grabber" on Download.com
http://www.soft32.com/download_7550.html

Just pointed it at the url and it downloaded 132mb of images.

The software is available on a 20 day trial and is then $39.95 to purchase.

[Duncan Rounding]

WinHTTrack or similar will grab the whole site and put the images into a separate directory.

[RuralWeb]

There is a plugin you can get for DW that will download the whole site and put the images into a folder that can then be moved to site1

[fleetwood]

Typically, the images I need to grab are the pop ups from clicking a thumbnail.

Example of a publishers page that we need to access is Marvel comics here:
http://www.marvel.com/catalog/?utm_c...ontent=catalog

I can't see the URL that produces the pop up - is there a trick?

I'm not so sure these image miners that have been listed above can access the pop ups. I understand how to do it with a simple drill down directory, but not where the pop ups are produced by some java jiggery pokery.

[RuralWeb]

I'm not so sure these image miners that have been listed above can access the pop ups

They rip 100% of the site

[leehack]

Martin, however they finally end up on your screen, there is a source file and it is located on the website somewhere. Often once you click and get the popup, right-click and view properties to see where it is. The site i gave as an example is an exact replica of this situation. I found the location and then just replicated it changing the file names.

[fleetwood]

Thanks Lee, Malcom et all - I shall take a look

[Buzby]

Martin,

As I mentioned on my first post I was also having to get the images from pop up pages.

All I did with the software was enter the domain name and it ripped 132mb of images from the site including thumbnails, full size pictures plus many other sizes that were stored on the site but not used. I now have each image in about 6 or 7 sizes where I would have only had the one size if I had manually saved them.

Kind regards

Jason