Grab images from url

HumanNature · June 21st, 2004, 12:25 PM

Can someone explain me what does this mean and where is it?

I know that is a mod posted in photopostdev but as long as "grab" and "url" are no searchables by the forum engine I can´t not find the posts to see the description of the feature

Thanks

HumanNature · June 21st, 2004, 01:59 PM

Well I´ll change my question. How does this work?

Chuck S · June 21st, 2004, 02:02 PM

This is a feature of Photopost 4.8. What it does is this. It allows you to grab images off say a page. It parses and uploads images that are encased in an img src tag in the page and handles them all like a bulkupload process.

HumanNature · June 21st, 2004, 02:24 PM

I´m trying to make a test with a lot of pages and it don´t grab any images...

This is supposed to work with a page like this?

http://www.todomusica.org/janet_jackson/fotos.shtml

Michael P · June 21st, 2004, 02:25 PM

If you provide a URL to a page, it will strip out the IMG SRC tags and try to "grab" the images from the pages. There are a couple limitations:

a) Doesn't fetch images which use a relative URL,
b) Doesn't fetch images which are linked to, only SRC'd in the page.

HumanNature · June 21st, 2004, 04:29 PM

Ok thanks Omegatron and Michael.

If you solve this limitations in the future, this will be the best thinhg since internet was created xD

Michael P · June 21st, 2004, 05:22 PM

PhotoPost is not a "web stripper" product and its unlikely we'd ever build spidering into it.

HumanNature · June 21st, 2004, 06:30 PM

Hey it wasn´t me who wrote this mod

I think that like all things in life everything is relative, I think that this mod as feature is absolutely perfect, then you can choose what to do with it, you can use it right or you can use it "wrong" but I don´t think that such a great feature should die because someone could think that this is a way to steal other´s websites.

Michael P · June 21st, 2004, 07:34 PM

Actually, the "mod" is aprt of the 4.8 release and is no longer a "mod" (unless you want to add it to 4.7).

HumanNature · June 21st, 2004, 07:42 PM

Yes I know, I think that I don´t have understand what you were saying with your first reply, anyway it doen´t matter, is difficult to me express what I want exactly to say and undestand exactly what you want me to say.

I like the mod or whaterver you want to calll it

Chuck S · June 22nd, 2004, 06:50 AM

What Michael is stating is the mod itself simply looks for http://www.domain.com/someimage.jpg in an image src tag and uploads that to your photopost. This is no real hard thing to do.

It does not look for relative images as if it did we would have to write a whole complex thing to do that. This would make it more a less a web stripper