I know there are lots of utilities out there for nicking images from web sites, but I thought I’d have a go at writing my own.
This is really even simpler than TypeScript, and so I had a go at doing it in JavaScript first. (TypeScript could have easily been done in JavaScript too, thinking about it…)
Here’s my first attempt – this really is mind-bogglingly simple. It doesn’t gather images from web pages, but only works on web sites where they give their images sequential numbers – amazingly quite a lot of sites seem to do this.
The advantage this system has over site-mining programs, is that this can find images that never made it onto a finished web page.
So copy and paste the HTML below into a text document, save it locally and open it in your web-broswer (I’m not daft enough to host this on my own web space!)
You need to enter the image path – try something like
http://www.maxim-magazine.co.uk/picture_library/dir_9/maxim_pic_
- then the first image number (say 4500) and the last (4999 if you like), the image suffix (.jpg) and off you go…
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<html>
<head>
<title>image grabber</title>
</head>
<body>
<script language=”javascript”>
imagepath = prompt(“Enter image path”, “http://”);
start = prompt(“Enter 1st image number”, “1″);
stop = prompt(“Enter last image number”, “23″);
suffix = prompt(“Enter image suffix”, “.jpg”);
for (i=start; i<=stop; i++)
{
document.write (“<img src=”+imagepath+i+suffix+”><br />image “+i+”<hr>”)
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
