Downloading a lot of pics? (1 Viewer)

[ToddJ]

What is the best software out there to download a lot of pictures from a website (and no it is not porn ? I have tried Picaloader, but it is a pain to set up....does anyone out there know of any better ones?

 

[Chris]

Express WebPics works pretty well.

http://www.neowise.com/

 

[Tekara]

You know, I have had the best luck with a mozilla plugin called flashgot used with flashget. There's an option in the plugin to download everything on the page and then in flashget I can just take out the things I don't want like the source code, style sheets, etc.

 

[BlakeN]

If your going to be doing it a lot and want to blindly download files of a certain type or size there are several programs that will fit the bill. I would say teleport pro is probably the best IMHO.

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

 

[Kimmo Jaskari]

Teleport Pro is very good.

A friend of mine also swears by Black Widow:

http://www.softbytelabs.com/BlackWidow/index.html

Does the same thing, more or less.

A more "hacky" option would be either wget or curl. These are small open source programs that are designed to download stuff off the web; they are command line programs and used mostly in the Unix world.

There is a nice page over at:

http://lifeofexile.com/wget_curl/

that has a lot of examples on how to grab a certain type of file etc from various sites, as well as links to where you can download wget and/or curl. To pick an image-downloading-example:



That will get all 60 images with just that one command.

wget can also get all files of a certain type (and I'm sure curl can too, haven't used curl much myself) in case you want every jpg off a certain site.

As I said, you actually have to type (gasp!) a little but many "batch" type jobs are ideally suited for the command line interface.