Best way to save Images in Threads?

[solidwing68]

Does anyone have any recommendations on how to save images that have multiple pages on a thread? any tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[slimOl55]

Depending upon your browser and platform - you can use browser plugins to capture single and multi picture selections. There will be more info in the help section of this forum. Use the main page search facility to find user recommendations.
If you are using firefox - then imageHost Grabber works just fine.

slimol55

[solidwing68]

i have firefox, but i mainly use chrome

edit: I just installed that addon for firefox and man that thing is so great and it's fast! thanks for the recommendation slim, much appreciated!

[buttsie]

Trouble with downloading automatically especially entire threads is hosts thesedays are
becoming more and more unreliable

If any server is too stressed the content on it wont download and you'll be none the wiser
I've checked content that was deemed dead by the automatic downloader many times
manually and found it to be alive

Checking to see what hosts are in a thread and sampling them if your going for the entire thread is just smart

Smarter is downloading in smaller batches of posts
- 5 posts per page (maximum of 150 images in a post on VEF)

The reason I say stay small is large all in one sessions - 40 posts per page
can go very wrong if a hosts server goes offline - its like watching grass grow
- as it checks each image and returns it unavailable
- if you have image grabber set to check them multiple times even slower.

- 5 posts - maximum 750 images versus 40 posts - up to 6000 images


You can reduce or increase posts per page from the default 10
via your User cp - see directions below

Before you use the automatic downloader TURN OFF SIGNATURES
unless you want to end up with images in them

Found user cp / setting & options / options / thread display options (half way down)
- visible post elements - show signatures - untick

Under that is - Number of Posts to Show Per Page

Change to what you want and save at the bottom


I used image grabber 1.6.5.5 for eons until imagehosts started to become unreliable

With add-ons it always pays to check the authors homepage if the program starts acting up...several times there have been newer versions on it compared to the firefox page

Now its 1 post at a time for me - less stress on their servers plus it gives more chance of getting
ALL the content thats alive


others swear by managers like

Down Them All

Complete rewrite as a webextension
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...n/downthemall/

[solidwing68]

Thanks for the tips buttsie. I did notice what you were talking about, where imageHost Grabber would say some images on a certain host aren't available, but I check it manually and they are there. So I will do that from now on, sample download a few images from a page at a time and check before downloading multiple now. Thanks again for the tips

[Boatguy]

Hey guys.
Just a heads up for those that may have missed it.
IHG has changed their domain from a .com to a .eu and you need to make an edit to keep up to date.

From the IHG Forum:

Change your host file setting to imagehost-grabber.eu (from host file editor) from http://imagehost-grabber.com/hostf.xml to http://imagehost-grabber.eu/hostf.xml to ensure you keep up to date after the big change. (The old URL will work until about June.)

EDIT: Just changed mine, and got an update for the host file the first time I used it today. I hadn't seen one prior to that in a few weeks.

[blazes]

Originally Posted by Boatguy

Hey guys.
Just a heads up for those that may have missed it.
IHG has changed their domain from a .com to a .eu and you need to make an edit to keep up to date.

From the IHG Forum:

Change your host file setting to imagehost-grabber.eu (from host file editor) from http://imagehost-grabber.com/hostf.xml to http://imagehost-grabber.eu/hostf.xml to ensure you keep up to date after the big change. (The old URL will work until about June.)

EDIT: Just changed mine, and got an update for the host file the first time I used it today. I hadn't seen one prior to that in a few weeks.

Funnily my Grabber wasn't affected until yesterday. After it died I installed it again from the Mozilla site and made the necessary adjustments. However the 'select images' function has disappeared, which is very annoying.

I also consulted this from the dl-site:

Excellent add-on that has recently hit a couple of speed-bumps... two things have happened.

1) The Host File Server has changed from: http://imagehost-grabber.com/hostf.xml to: http://imagehost-grabber.eu/hostf.xml
2) With the automatic signing of AMO hosted add-ons (the .1-signed thing) the add-on was, in effect, reset to some really old version of hostf.xml

So, defunct Host File Server address and an old hostf.xml file. The solution is to manually change the Host File Server to the newer address. Under the ImageHost Grabber menu pick: 'Host File Editor' and click the: 'Modify hostf servers' button.

Use: 'Add Host File Server' to add: http://imagehost-grabber.eu/hostf.xml
Use: 'Delete Host File Server' to remove: http://imagehost-grabber.com/hostf.xml
Click: 'Update File' to confirm the changes.
Exit the Host File Servers panel.
Finally, click: 'Update from online Host File' to get the latest hostf.xml file.

There is some discussion here: http://imagehost-grabber.eu/index.php?topic=3217.0

Doesn't help. It's either all or nothing in the IHG-Menu.

Any Idea how to bring back the selected-images-only download function?

[DTravel]

Originally Posted by blazes

Any Idea how to bring back the selected-images-only download function?

You can (or should be able to) access the "Selected Images Only" option with the keyboard shortcut Shift-PageUp.

[blazes]

< Good thinking, but didn't help. My IHG just remained stubborn until I found this:

http://imagehost-grabber.eu/index.php?topic=3203.0

The 1.7.0 version downloadable there brought back the 'selected only' feature instantly

[EsotericKnave]

Image Host Grabber may be disappearing from Firefox on November 3:

Google requires Chrome extensions to be signed and installed via the Chrome store. Microsoft will do the same for Edge; its extensions will be digitally signed and distributed through the Windows store. Mozilla has similar plans for its new extensions. They will have to be digitally signed by Mozilla, and will generally be distributed through addons.mozilla.org. This digital signature mandate is also being implemented for current add-ons; after the November 3rd Firefox release (version 42), these will no longer work if they do not have a digital signature. Between now and then, unsigned extensions will be disabled by default, with an option to enable them.

http://arstechnica.com/information-t...ke-extensions/

Looking in my add-ons manager I see IHG falling under the category of being allowed...for now.