Downloading all pictures from a forum-thread?
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Downloading all pictures from a forum-thread?
Hi.
First off, thank you very much for this great software. It really saves me a lot of time.
I have a problem though, which I can't find a solution for.
I need to download all pictures from a specific forum thread, containing multiple replies/updates (with new pictures). No matter what setting I use, it only downloads the pictures attached to the first post.
What I need EPF to do is download ALL the pictures from the whole thread. How can this be done?
Hope you can help me in this?!
First off, thank you very much for this great software. It really saves me a lot of time.
I have a problem though, which I can't find a solution for.
I need to download all pictures from a specific forum thread, containing multiple replies/updates (with new pictures). No matter what setting I use, it only downloads the pictures attached to the first post.
What I need EPF to do is download ALL the pictures from the whole thread. How can this be done?
Hope you can help me in this?!
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- Joined: 15 Apr 2011, 19:26
Re: Downloading all pictures from a forum-thread?
Thank you for the support.
This is the site: http://www.fiberglassforums.com/subwoof ... w-box.html
It is a thread that consists of various replies/updates.
EPF only downloads the pictures from the first post, even though the post below consist a lot of pictures too...
This is the site: http://www.fiberglassforums.com/subwoof ... w-box.html
It is a thread that consists of various replies/updates.
EPF only downloads the pictures from the first post, even though the post below consist a lot of pictures too...
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Re: Downloading all pictures from a forum-thread?
Here are the project settings for you:
Starting address: http://www.fiberglassforums.com/subwoof ... w-box.html
Site exploration: Regular site, Follow all links
Excluded URL filters:
.*
Included URL filters:
^http://www.fiberglassforums.com/subwoof ... x-\d+.html$
\.jpg$
Starting address: http://www.fiberglassforums.com/subwoof ... w-box.html
Site exploration: Regular site, Follow all links
Excluded URL filters:
.*
Included URL filters:
^http://www.fiberglassforums.com/subwoof ... x-\d+.html$
\.jpg$
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Re: Downloading all pictures from a forum-thread?
YEAH!!! PERFECT!! I love this software even more now.
You made my day. Thank you so much for the great support.
Just for my reference, what have i "told" the program adding these lines?
You made my day. Thank you so much for the great support.
Just for my reference, what have i "told" the program adding these lines?
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Re: Downloading all pictures from a forum-thread?
The Excluded URL filter .* tells EPF to ignore (exclude) all addresses (except for those that match Included URL filters). The first filter
^http://www.fiberglassforums.com/subwoof ... x-\d+.html$
tells EPF to process addresses that start with
http://www.fiberglassforums.com/subwoof ... o-new-box-
then have any number of digits (\d+) and end with
.html
The second Included filter
\.jpg$
tells EPF to process addresses that end with .jpg.
^http://www.fiberglassforums.com/subwoof ... x-\d+.html$
tells EPF to process addresses that start with
http://www.fiberglassforums.com/subwoof ... o-new-box-
then have any number of digits (\d+) and end with
.html
The second Included filter
\.jpg$
tells EPF to process addresses that end with .jpg.
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Re: Downloading all pictures from a forum-thread?
OK. Thank you for the explanation. I think I get it now.
So when doing the same for another forum-topic, I will just ad: ^http://www.*ADDRESS*\d+.html$
right?
So when doing the same for another forum-topic, I will just ad: ^http://www.*ADDRESS*\d+.html$
right?
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Re: Downloading all pictures from a forum-thread?
Well, it depends. You have to take a look at the actual addresses of the next pages of the thread to see what's changing. Then create a regular expression and add it to the Included URLs filter.
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Re: Downloading all pictures from a forum-thread?
Hello.
I have a related question to this. There is a thread in a forum that i also would like to download images from.
It consists of something like 16 pages.
The url is:
http://www.mybike.gr/topic/27928-%CE%BF ... ge__st__60
The "http://www.mybike.gr/topic/27928-%CE%BF ... %B5%CF%82/" is the url of the entire topic
while the "page__st__60" are the pages.
The number 60 is random. So page 1 could be page__st__15 , while page 2 of the thread might be page__st__46 etc.
I added in the Extreme Picture Finder the following regular expression.
http://www.mybike.gr/topic/27928-%CE%BF ... 5%CF%82/[b](.*)[/b]
In order to download all the images from this topic.
Unfortunately i had no success as i could download only 7 images. Is there something i am not aware of ?
Thank you.
I have a related question to this. There is a thread in a forum that i also would like to download images from.
It consists of something like 16 pages.
The url is:
http://www.mybike.gr/topic/27928-%CE%BF ... ge__st__60
The "http://www.mybike.gr/topic/27928-%CE%BF ... %B5%CF%82/" is the url of the entire topic
while the "page__st__60" are the pages.
The number 60 is random. So page 1 could be page__st__15 , while page 2 of the thread might be page__st__46 etc.
I added in the Extreme Picture Finder the following regular expression.
http://www.mybike.gr/topic/27928-%CE%BF ... 5%CF%82/[b](.*)[/b]
In order to download all the images from this topic.
Unfortunately i had no success as i could download only 7 images. Is there something i am not aware of ?
Thank you.
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Re: Downloading all pictures from a forum-thread?
In case of forum threads you have to look for the common part of every thread page URL. In most cases the common part is a thread ID (in your case 27928). So you can do the following:
add Excluded filter
.*
to exclude everything, then add
27928
\.jpg
to Included filters.
That's it. And make sure, the exploration is set to "Regular site", "Follow all links".
add Excluded filter
.*
to exclude everything, then add
27928
\.jpg
to Included filters.
That's it. And make sure, the exploration is set to "Regular site", "Follow all links".