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4. Downloading a web gallery with BID |
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BID User Guide | |
Start your browser and then browse to a web page containing the web gallery you'd like to download. In the examples below we are downloading from flickr.com, but the information and techniques can be applied to any other web site. Right click inside the page and select “Open current page with BID”.
(FireFox users please install the BID FireFox extension to see this menu option. Google Chrome users please install the BID Chrome Extension . BID integrates with Internet Explorer and Opera automatically - no extensions are required for these browsers.)
Right click on the page and select “Open current page with BID”
BID will start and automatically scan the web page for thumbnailed image links. After a few seconds it will display a list of images:
BID scans the selected web page and displays the image links found
Notice that the web page URL has been filled in and scanned automatically.
To use BID without browser integration, simply start it up and type the gallery URL into the “URL of image/video gallery page” field (or copy and paste it from your browser). After entering the URL press the Scan button or simply press Enter to have BID scan for images. Press the Scan button or press Enter to scan a new URL for images Scanning Multi Page Galleries
BID can automatically detect most of the popular multi page gallery types in use on the web. When a multi page gallery is detected BID will load each gallery page, one after the other. The maximum pages that BID will load this way is controlled by the “max pages” configuration setting (default value 20, see Configuration). Multi Page Loading using URL “Range Specifiers”If BID does not detect the multi page gallery you are downloading from you can force it to load all the pages by using a “range specifier” in the URL. A range specifier looks like this: [from-to] where from and to are numbers or letters. For example, suppose our web gallery has multiple pages such as: http://example.com/gallery/page1.htm http://example.com/gallery/page2.htm … http://example.com/gallery/page99.htm To make BID download each page you would use the following URL: http://example.com/gallery/page[1-99].htm Add leading zeros to the “from” number if zero padding is required, e.g.: http://example.com/gallery/page[01-99].htm Generate Image File Lists with “Range Specifiers” (Fusker Links)Range Specifiers can also be used to generate lists of image files to download. Suppose you come across a site where the images are all numbered sequentially, such as: http://example.com/pics/pic001.jpg http://example.com/pics/pic002.jpg … http://example.com/pics/pic999.jpg To make BID generate such a list you would use the following URL: http://example.com/pics/pic[001-999].jpg These types of link are sometimes referred to as “fuskers”. Note that images added this way are classified as “embedded”. You will need to set the image type filter (see Image Type Filters in the next section) to “embedded images only” or “all images” for them to appear on the file list. More than one range specifier can be used in the URL, e.g.: http://example.com/gallery[1-10]/pic[01-15].jpg Advanced “Range Specifiers”The range specifier format is as follows: [from{,s}-to{:increment}{,label}] Items in curly brackets {} are optional. ,s means skip FIRST value (use a blank) e.g. site.com/gallery/page[1,s-10].html will skip number 1 This will produce the list: site.com/gallery/page.html site.com/gallery/page2.html site.com/gallery/page3.html … site.com/gallery/page10.html The increment will default to 1 if not specified. label is a single letter name for the particular range variable, e.g. [A] or [B], etc. Use labels if you need to use the current range value elsewhere in the URL e.g. http://site.com/album[5-10,A]/pics[A]_[001-100].jpg [5-10] is labelled 'A' [A] will be replaced with the current value of the range [5-10] when generating the list. You can add an optional offset to the label value as follows: [label{+n}] e.g. http://site.com/album[1-10,A]/pics[A]_[001-100].jpg where the [A] refers to the current value of the [1-10] range... This will produce the list: http://site.com/album5/pics5_001.jpg http://site.com/album5/pics5_002.jpg .. http://site.com/album5/pics5_100.jpg http://site.com/album6/pics6_001.jpg http://site.com/album6/pics6_002.jpg .. http://site.com/album6/pics6_100.jpg etc. Detailed and Thumbnail Views
Click on the thumbnail view buttons to display the images as a detailed list, detailed with small thumbnails, or small, medium or large thumbnails.
BID Thumbnail view buttons (Detailed view selected) Click on the “Small Thumbnail” button to display the images as small thumbnails. Small thumbnail view selected
Image Type Filters
BID classifies each image it finds as either “thumbnailed” or “embedded”.
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