Save all pics from a thread automaticaly.
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Weird Harold
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pimpslap said:No not from this place
Is there a program I can use that will go through all the pages of a thread and save the pics? I rather not do it manualy.
None that I know of and it would be a difficult programming exercise to implement without at least some manual intervention to designate which pictures to save.
I'm not enough of an HTML programmer to know how it's done, but it is possible to write a webpage that automatically invokes the "Save Target As" for a URL. You can write a boilerplate version of a local HTML document and then C&P image URLs into the boilerplate to automatically download them. That approach would work best for attachments that show as links as they do here at Lit.
For images that display automatically, your browser already saves them and all you have to do is find them and move them from temporary to permanent storage. Irfanview or Paintshop Pro both have a browse/thumbnail function which can show you every graphic in your temporary internet files folders and tag them for batch copying to a non-temporary folder.
I'm sure that there are many other programs with the ability to do something similar. Windows built-in Find function can find all of the image files in your temporary internet files and allow you to copy them to permanent storage, but unless your version of windows is configured to show a preview or thumbnail view of images, you won't have much of an idea about what you're copying.
Copying images from your temporary internet files does require that you open every page you want the images from and allow it to load completely but that's just a minor consideration because the time required to load the pages isn't much more than is required to download the images -- time which your system is going to use however you identify the images to download.
There may be some shareware or freeware program out there that can do what you want, but I've found copying imges from the temporary internet files with Irfanview a simple and uncomplicated process that doesn't require installing and additional program that probably won't work exactly as I want it to anyway.
