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[Master Bates]

Originally Posted by deepsepia

Imagehost grabber plugin for Firefox, mentioned many times, with good reason -- it's excellent

Is there a setting to keep it from renaming all files to dscnnnn?

[deepsepia]

Originally Posted by Master Bates

Is there a setting to keep it from renaming all files to dscnnnn?

It generally renames when files would be overwriting-- if the native filename is unique, it will keep that. DSC prefixes are native digital photography, though (eg, what your camera stores). If you see DSC101.jpg. DSC102.jpg, etc-- that's often the way it came off the memory stick, not something that Imagehost applied to it.

You can bring up the save files options panel and adjust preferences

>Tools>Imagehost Grabber>Options from your Firefox menu

[Master Bates]

When I am able to get BID to download (very spotty lately) it keeps the filenames off of imagebam etc. As Image Host goes throught the download list I see each filename change from the random string of letters/numbers to DSCnnn. Most annoying (both programs).

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Hmmm, maybe you are right. I opened one of the images in firefox and it was called DSC080. I still like the way BID used to handle it though, too bad the image hosts figured out how to disable it.

[deepsepia]

Originally Posted by Master Bates

When I am able to get BID to download (very spotty lately) it keeps the filenames off of imagebam etc. As Image Host goes throught the download list I see each filename change from the random string of letters/numbers to DSCnnn. Most annoying (both programs).

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Hmmm, maybe you are right. I opened one of the images in firefox and it was called DSC080. I still like the way BID used to handle it though, too bad the image hosts figured out how to disable it.

I don't use BID, so I couldn't comment on that.

Imagehost Grabber keeps the original filenames, unless they're duplicated (eg "1.jpg -- if you try to download another file of the same name, and choose not to overwrite, you'll end up with 1.jpg and 1_1.jpg)

If you look at a page here like
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/t95...rs-merged.html
(chosen because it had a few different image hosts)

I get correct filenames when downloading from imagebam, imagevenue, and imagebox (eg the filenames on my computer match the filenames in the web gallery.

[Master Bates]

You are absolutely correct, when I ran an image dupe finder there were older files in that directory named dscxxx. I got thrown off because the url's in the DL list showed different "filenames" that resembled what I used to obtain from BID.

[slisse]

I know that I try to read everything, unfortunately sometimes I get a little distracted and therefor may not have read everything here.

Is there a program to grab the images behind thumbnails on a page (I'm not referring to images at imagevenue and so many others, therefor I've a program that works like a charm)? I mean like a site from a model where you need to click on the thumbnail to get the picture and only then you can save that picture.

[If such program was already mentioned here, then I can only blush and say "sorry".]

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Sorry, but English is only my 4th language, so if you wouldn't understand me, please don't be afraid to ask me to rephrase things!

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[hos]

there is no such tool which is able to hijack every thinkable way of interlinked images, at least not by default.

but if you are familiar with scripting/programming and know how to use regular expressions, the firefox addon "downthemall" (+anticontainer) offers the option to include own scripts to rip-off images from any website...

...as long as the thumbnails including the final image url are listed within the html source
...or you can reverse-engineer the final urls from a protective javascript
...and as long as the final image is delivered as jpg (or any other typical image file format) and not as a flash-file. the image itself can be delivered with a new html-site, that doesn't matter much - it would just offer a bit more work with your script. that said, if it's delivered as plain standalone image, chances are very high that it already works with downthemall without the need of any further scripting.

[deepsepia]

Originally Posted by hos

...or you can reverse-engineer the final urls from a protective javascript

hos, do you know of any references on techniques for doing this?

This seems to be how lots of places are protecting files. Yahoo groups, Smugmug, quite a few others . . . there's a JPG hidden behind a mess of Javascript.

I do it manually, very clunky, open up the page and "Inspect Elements" and look for .jpg extensions, but I'd like to be able to do this kind of thing automatically.

Can you point me in the right direction?

[hos]

sadly javascript doesn't support reflection with own methods to introspect the code, but at least it offers some basics (cause in the end, javascript is nothing else than a bunch of arrays you can iterate).

http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutorials...avascript.html

may get your hands on "software patterns" (gemma, helm, johnson, vlissides), make yourself familiar with regular expressions. these are (some of) the basics you need to know to understand how foreign source code works.

anything further is too hardcore to explain in detail (for free), sorry.

[albani]

Hi

For IE8(o/s winXP) request pop-up remover/adblock programme??

"Simple AdBlock" ok but its shareware! it has limited removing for 200pcs!

So need a freeware ADBlock for IE8??

Thanks++