Extreme Picture Finder

[hatalar205]

Hi! I'm looking for a program like "Extreme Picture Finder". It is a kind program for finding and downloading photos from pre-determined internet sites. Is there a prgram like this in Ubuntu.

[hatalar205]

Anyone there to help.

[khedron]

As far as I know there is nothing that does exactly what this program does. (But I haven't used the program, so I don't know how much it does anyway.) However:

There's an extension for Firefox called DownThemAll (http://www.downthemall.net/) which allows you to download all images (or music, etc) linked to on a page, or select only some of them for download.

You could look into wget, which is a command line tool that can search through (recurse) a whole website looking for particular files.

For example, to download all files on a website ending in .jpg or .png, use


wget --recursive --accept ".jpg,.png" http://web.site.com


You can change the --accept argument to any wildcard for the file name.
You can also use:
--reject to stop downloading some filenames
--include to include a particular directory (e.g. --include /img selects that you only want images from http://web.site.com/img)
--exclude to exclude a particular directory (e.g. --exclude /img allows download of all images except those under http://web.site.com/img)

[hatalar205]

As far as I know there is nothing that does exactly what this program does. (But I haven't used the program, so I don't know how much it does anyway.) However:

There's an extension for Firefox called DownThemAll (http://www.downthemall.net/) which allows you to download all images (or music, etc) linked to on a page, or select only some of them for download.

You could look into wget, which is a command line tool that can search through (recurse) a whole website looking for particular files.

For example, to download all files on a website ending in .jpg or .png, use


wget --recursive --accept ".jpg,.png" http://web.site.com


You can change the --accept argument to any wildcard for the file name.
You can also use:
--reject to stop downloading some filenames
--include to include a particular directory (e.g. --include /img selects that you only want images from http://web.site.com/img)
--exclude to exclude a particular directory (e.g. --exclude /img allows download of all images except those under http://web.site.com/img)
Thanks for your help. But this program is a bit different. It has a search engine. And it find the photos by itself. For example you need a photo of "Lion". You write the engine "Lion" and it searches the internet sites for that item and when he finds it downloads all. Normally it downloads more than 200 photos in a few minutes. I am looking for such kind of program.

[khedron]

Edit: Whoops, double post.

[khedron]

I'm afraid I have heard of no such program for Linux. Sorry.

You might be able to piece this together. Google Image search can provide the images, but you can't use DownThemAll directly with it, since the links given on GIS results are links to thumbnails rather than direct to the images. So use this site (http://dearcomputer.nl/gir/), which wraps GIS to make all the images appear on one page, with DownThemAll's one-click mode.

The site has a limitation of only showing the top ~20 images. Apparently its Greasemonkey script (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/36918) also has such a limitation. The problem is that Google fixes its search results page to 20 images (as does Yahoo). Maybe you could look into a repagination add-on for Firefox to fix this?

I realise this solution isn't perfect, but my Google skills couldn't find a program like the one you describe.

[hatalar205]

Thanks for your suggestion. I think I must ask this to the linux developers. Maybe they can do something. This kind of programs are not known well by even windows' users even though they are only used with windows. But they are really very usefull. If I find a solution I will write here.

[MarblePanther]

Have you tried running it in WINE?

Just a thought...I wouldn't expect it to work

[MarblePanther]

Here's some excellent news for you:

Go into synaptic and install wine.

download extreme picture finder from http://www.exisoftware.com/ to your desktop.

Enjoy it!

It works perfectly, i just tried it.

[MarblePanther]

101667

Extreme Picture finder working on my Ubuntu desktop through WINE.

I searched for lion :)

After you install wine, just click on picturefindersetup.exe and set it up.

After you install it, just go to Applications, Wine, Programs, Extreme Picture Finder 3 -- you can make a desktop icon by dragging it to your desktop.