Downloading all pictures from a forum-thread?

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Aze
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Downloading all pictures from a forum-thread?

Post by Aze » 15 Apr 2011, 20:13

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?!

Aze
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Re: Downloading all pictures from a forum-thread?

Post by Aze » 18 Apr 2011, 12:51

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...

Maksym
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Re: Downloading all pictures from a forum-thread?

Post by Maksym » 18 Apr 2011, 13:24

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$

Aze
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Re: Downloading all pictures from a forum-thread?

Post by Aze » 18 Apr 2011, 13:37

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?

Maksym
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Re: Downloading all pictures from a forum-thread?

Post by Maksym » 18 Apr 2011, 13:47

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.

Aze
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Re: Downloading all pictures from a forum-thread?

Post by Aze » 18 Apr 2011, 13:54

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?

Maksym
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Re: Downloading all pictures from a forum-thread?

Post by Maksym » 19 Apr 2011, 11:53

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.

Alarm
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Re: Downloading all pictures from a forum-thread?

Post by Alarm » 28 Feb 2012, 11:57

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.

Maksym
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Re: Downloading all pictures from a forum-thread?

Post by Maksym » 29 Feb 2012, 12:32

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".

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