Image Harvest lets you download a numerical sequence of images from the internet (or a local volume) all at once, rather than having to go through web page after web page to hunt down the images you want one by one.
It works by simply writing a custom HTML page based on your input. In this HTML page all the specified images are listed one after the other, and when you open this page with your browser, all the images will be loaded in for you.
Distribute it all you like, though it'd be awful polite if you'd keep this Read Me along with the application.
Installation:
Just unstuff it and run it!
How to use it:
There is abundant balloon help to show you what each feature means.
Basically you specify a base filename (URL) that points to your images. Then you specify a sequence of numbers, an optional filename suffix, and a filetype extension. You can also specify which web browser to use to open the resulting page.
For example, let's say you wanted to grab this ten-image sequence:
• input 'www.microsoft.com/images/bill/pieinface' (this is the URL up to the point where the number sequence starts)
Number Sequence panel:
• Begin at: '001'
• End at: '010'
• Step by: '1' (the default)
Filename Suffix panel
• (leave this blank, since in this case there's nothing between the number sequence and the filetype.)
Filetype:
• check '.jpg'
Browser to use panel:
• (that's up to you; use whichever you like)
Now either hit 'Save' to save your custom HTML file to disk, or 'Save and Open' to save it, and immediately open it in your browser of choice (launching the browser if it's not running already).
That's it!
Development Environment:
Made with REALbasic 1.1 on a Power Macintosh 9600/300.
For those who are interested, Image Harvest's complete REALbasic project file is available at my web page (see below for my URL).
I have to plug REALbasic here, as it makes developing applications like this amazingly easy. Image Harvest was cranked out into an 80% functional form in one night, and a couple more days of tweaks were all I needed to complete it. And it's cheap, too! See the REALbasic URL below for more info.
Still to do:
• I'd like to have it switch the browser to the front when the 'Save and Open' button is clicked, rather than opening it anonymously in the background.
• I'd also like to have it open the page in a new browser window instead of hijacking whatever window is in the front.
• In the About box, clicking on my web page address or the REALbasic logo should also open the appropriate pages in a browser window, and my email address should open a new email window in the default email client.
• I'd like to add a little balloon help icon to the bottom of the main window to toggle balloon help.
• Are there any other image/file types people want me to support? Any additional browser types? Any other features that would make it easier/more useful to use? Or have I pretty much got it covered? Let me know!
Links:
My email address: preston@cvn.bai.ne.jp
My main web page: <http://www.mars.dti.ne.jp/~preston/>
