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Automatically downloading a series of images from a website
hoodie13
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So hopefully the title is clear enough to get you in this thread... What I'm looking for is this. I'd like to create a collection of webcomics, purely for my own amusement and not for distribution or profit, but I'm having difficulty finding an efficient way of gathering the images. Here's exactly what I want to do:
1. Have this process or macro recognize the image I want to save (for easiness' sake, let's just say the PA strip.).
2. Save this image to a pre-designated folder.
3. Move to the next comic in the series, basically by clicking the "next comic" button or whatever the website has (all of the comics have an easy image link for clicking, no java screwiness.)
4. Repeat steps 1-3 until there is no "next comic" button, or the button does nothing.
For my own ease, I'd prefer a Mac-friendly way of doing this, but I can work with PC. I just made need some additional instructions for the PC side. I'm not too good with some of the technical aspects of PC's.
To let you know what I've tried, I've attempted to use the FireFox extension DownThemAll, but it's not really doing what I'd like it to do. If it's the only way, that's fine, but I may need a bit of assistance getting the extension to work.
The goal of all this is to eventually put these onto my iPhone or iPod Touch, and fill boring parts of the day. As I said, no profit or wide distribution. Purely my own amusement.
Help?
1. Have this process or macro recognize the image I want to save (for easiness' sake, let's just say the PA strip.).
2. Save this image to a pre-designated folder.
3. Move to the next comic in the series, basically by clicking the "next comic" button or whatever the website has (all of the comics have an easy image link for clicking, no java screwiness.)
4. Repeat steps 1-3 until there is no "next comic" button, or the button does nothing.
For my own ease, I'd prefer a Mac-friendly way of doing this, but I can work with PC. I just made need some additional instructions for the PC side. I'm not too good with some of the technical aspects of PC's.
To let you know what I've tried, I've attempted to use the FireFox extension DownThemAll, but it's not really doing what I'd like it to do. If it's the only way, that's fine, but I may need a bit of assistance getting the extension to work.
The goal of all this is to eventually put these onto my iPhone or iPod Touch, and fill boring parts of the day. As I said, no profit or wide distribution. Purely my own amusement.
Help?
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Then add up all the images. You should really only allow DTA to download one image at a time to be polite. If it has a bandwidth limiter than I'd use that too and just be patient.
actually here's a program to do it for you, with 945 supported comics and the ability to define custom ones: http://collector.skumleren.net/supported_comics.php?version=devel
Kekekekekeke.
the internets are changing!
Also, if it's a popular webcomic you're after, search for a torrent of it. I found ones for Penny-Arcade and just downloaded those a while ago.
Thanks a ton! This suggestion worked wonders. It took a little bit of effort to get AutoPager to work, but once I did this process worked like a dream.
Thanks a lot, guys!
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